Thursday, October 1, 2020 — Statement by the Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, to the General Assembly Debate of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 25, 2020. Click here to view UNGA address.
By Sir Ronald Sanders – Friday, July 31, 2020 — (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and at Massey College, University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own.) […]
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis addressing the UN General Assembly. (Photo credit: UN/Loey Felipe) NEW YORK, NY, United States – Hurricane Dorian, one of the most destructive Atlantic storms ever recorded, “is a generational tragedy” for The Bahamas, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has told the UN General Assembly. And he has urged fellow world leaders […]
Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – Jamaica says it believes a partnership approach is required in order to generate the type of response needed to create long-term mobilisation of the financial resources small island developing states (SIDS) […]
St Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) — Caribbean countries have welcomed an initiative by the SIDS Resilience Foundation and Project Lodge designed to mobilise financing to build resilience, St Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has said. Chastanet, who chaired the just ended Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit here, said that a presentation […]
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — More than 30 developing countries, including those in the Caribbean, are calling for a recapitalization of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) in response to the worsening impact of climate change and sweeping finance gaps for low-carbon development. The calls have come as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has commended Jamaica on its work to advance activities relating to its climate change agenda. “Jamaica is in a position of leadership. You are way ahead of a lot of countries in this realm,” said chief of operations, IDB Jamaica, Adriana La Valley, who was speaking at a Capacity-building Initiative […]