Trees that help keep soils fertile could slow or stop deforestation in Brazil’s “arc of destruction”. A project using inga trees hopes to show smallholders that they can earn a decent living from the land. Inga trees, known as ice-cream bean trees, fix nitrogen into the soil, boosting productivity levels. Scientists hope the scheme will […]
By Kuba Shand-Baptiste Greta Thunberg is a force to be reckoned with. Her global campaigning efforts, candid talks with photo-hungry politicians and her ability to hold powerful world leaders triple her age to account have proved as much. Yet it seems the jury is still out on her leadership style. There are some who gaze […]
ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad – The Caribbean is currently deploying a new technology to help it build resilience to natural disasters. Known as LIDAR, the acronym for light detection and ranging, the technology is being used to gather data that will help regional governments better predict the impacts of climate-related events and determine how best to […]
Heavy rains have extinguished wildfires which destroyed more than four million hectares of land in eastern Bolivia in recent months, officials say. “It has rained all across Chiquitanía and our satellite no longer shows any active forest fires,” a Santa Cruz province official said. The fires triggered mass protests against the environmental policies of President […]
It wasn’t a good sign – an hour late, no one was at the Jamaica Canadian Association Hall microphone and reporters waiting to meet Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett. It was a planned reception that Bartlett had invited prominent Canadian Jamaicans, travel experts and the media to attend in North Toronto. He wanted to brief […]
Immigration Matters Sukhram Ramkissoon Dear Mr. Minister An appeal on behalf of ‘ out of status’ Bahamians Dear Minister Hussen, As Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, you have implemented several programs that have positively affected many immigrants in Canada. The recent pilot program which lifted the ban on sponsors who did not declare […]
Grenada and other Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states are to receive one million dollars each from India for quick impact, community development projects. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi delivered the news to Grenada’s Prime Minister, Keith Mitchell and his Caricom colleagues last Wednesday, when he met with them on the margins of the United National […]
By Lincoln DePradine As Canadians prepare to vote in federal elections on October 21, citizens of Caribbean heritage have been urged to make climate change an issue to raise with the politicians seeking office to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Powerful hurricanes such as Dorian that hit The Bahamas this month, Maria that flattened […]
A Barrie man is raising money to help those affected by hurricane Dorian. Beatrice Vaisman reports. The catastrophic devastation left in the wake of hurricane Dorian has hit close to home for a Barrie man. Chris Ashton has strong ties to the country that he calls his second home. “My parents have a place in […]
St Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Timothy Harris held a very productive and constructive bilateral meeting last at the United Nations in New York with Jean Chrétien, who served as Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. Prime Minister Chrétien was acting as an emissary for Canada’s current Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, who […]
