By Jenny Baboolal On April 22 last, Earth Day came and went without much fanfare. This is unfortunate because, with a captive global audience, it was a unique opportunity to connect the dots between the COVID-19 pandemic, our way of life and its impact on our health and on the earth that supports us. Fifty […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A few weeks before the official start of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, forecasters at the US-based Colorado State University are warning that the six-month period will be more active than normal. The CSU Tropical Weather Project team said it anticipated at least 16 named storms with gusts over 100 km/h or […]
EDITORIAL Saving the earth It is supposed to be spring in Canada. Well, that’s officially according to the calendar. But if you live in Toronto, as you step outside your house early in the morning, you may think it is still winter, even as we get ready to welcome the month of May 2020. While […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The European Union is providing a grant of €8 million or US$8.6 million to help the Caribbean fight the coronavirus outbreak. In a news release on Monday, the EU said that the funds will be used to purchase COVID-19 test kits, masks and other personal protective equipment, testing reagents, and other materials […]
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) said the climate crisis is an existential threat to the Caribbean. At the Toronto Centre’s climate finance talks in Ottawa, The climate change risk is emerging as an urgent issue facing the global financial sector its leaders and citizens of the region have good reason […]
More than two years after Barbuda suffered the crippling effects of hurricane Irma, residents are still struggling to recapture some semblance of normalcy. Environmental activist John Mussington, said the disaster recovery process has been achingly slow. He thinks it unfortunate that the government seems more focussed on commercial development than they are on meeting the […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians last Sunday remembered the victims of the massive earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people a decade ago, although the ceremony was marked by a protest against political mismanagement now and then. President Jovenel Moise laid flowers at a memorial to the victims at a cemetery outside Port-au-Prince, joined by clergy, […]
Punta Ventana destroyed by earthquakes A popular tourist landmark in Puerto Rico, Punta Ventana, was destroyed in the Puerto Rico earthquakes Monday. Additionally, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company confirmed in a statement two other sites, Cueva Ventana and Ruinas del Faro, also suffered irreparable damage. A 5.8-magnitude quake hit the Caribbean island before dawn last […]
If occasional crises – hurricanes, revolutions and most recently, Haiti’s devastating earthquake – have crumpled this picture postcard view, the Caribbean remains a region largely devoted to the good life. First, some geography. The islands are divided into three broad groups. To the west are the Greater Antilles: mainly independent countries including Cuba, Jamaica and […]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Food Program warns Haiti is approaching famine like conditions, with more than 1 in 3 people in the country of 11 million in need of urgent assistance. A food assessment in October finds 1 million of the nearly 3.7 million people suffering severe food shortages in Haiti are facing an […]
