We cannot keep jumping from crisis to crisis, IFAD’s Chief Strategist to tell world leaders in Istanbul
Rome, 19 May 2016 – With more than 60 million people across the world reeling from the drought caused by El Niño, Josefina Stubbs from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has a strong message for leaders gathering…
Decision on former Caribbean football official Jack Warner’s lawsuit to be taken next month
IANS From Sports Keeda Warner is currently on TT$2.5 million ($331,428) bail following his first court appearance on May 27 last year. A judge will rule on June 17 whether to allow the United States government to be included as…
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OUR CARIBBEAN: Politics of ‘ethic arithmetic’
By Rickey Singh From Barbados Nation News PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart may perhaps take pride in keeping close to his chest any creative political initiative he plans to unfold for the second half century of Barbados as an independent nation,…
Class suit accuses Volkswagen, Audi of another cover-up
By Charles Toutant, From New Jersey Law Journal Volkswagen and Audi, which already face hundreds of suits over an alleged scheme to falsify diesel emissions, have been hit with a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
WESO 2016: Poverty goal of 2030 Agenda at risk without decent work
GENEVA (ILO News) – The global deficit in quality jobs and deteriorating economic conditions in a number of regions threatens to undo decades of progress in poverty reduction, warns a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). What’s more,…
Caribbean islands warned as Venezuela collapses
From Curacao Chronicle CARACAS – The mayor of Chacao in Venezuela’s capital Caracas has warned that Caribbean islands and Colombia may suffer an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue in the country. Español Ramón Muchacho said that…
Lakehead University researcher delves into 200-year-old Caribbean mystery
From CBC News New research indicates some, but not all, of the British sailors who died in the Caribbean had lead poisoning Researchers have only recently gained access to the skeletal remains of British sailors buried in Antigua in the…
The Caribbean Memory Project Is crowdsourcing family histories to preserve the region’s cultural heritage
By Atiba Rogers From Global Voices So you missed out on all those talks with your grandparents about what the good old days were like — or perhaps you’re curious about your family’s past and how you ended up in the…
Cartoon of the week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
US Judge to decide if Georgia immune from slave descendant suit
By Russ Bynum, The Associated Press From Daily Report BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday she will decide soon whether Georgia agencies are immune from a lawsuit claiming discrimination and neglect have eroded one of the last…
