Cuba grapples with austerity amid economic slowdown
AS HAS BEEN widely reported, Cuba has entered a new period of austerity. On July 8, President Castro told the Cuban National Assembly that Cuban economic growth had slowed to 1 per cent in the first...
View ArticleWhat will it take to raise up Haiti?
Haiti was due to have elections on October 9 to choose a new President. Even before Hurricane Matthew blasted the country on October 4 with category 4 force winds and a 190-mile outer band of powerful...
View ArticleObama signs new deal for Caribbean engagement
With constant crises around the globe that demand US attention, we must not lose sight of [US] long-term interests close to home — Congressman Eliot Engel, Ranking Member of US House Foreign Affairs...
View ArticleUS pulls HIV funding from hard-hit Caribbean countries
Caribbean governments now have limited time to ensure that they can sustain gains in their HIV programmes, and to finance gaps following the withdrawal of US aid WASHINGTON, D.C. —The United States is...
View ArticleOil debt divides Caribbean over Venezuela
Debt and short-termism have left some Caribbean governments conflicted in their response to Venezuela’s humanitarian and political crisisLast week, after months of growing street protests, detentions,...
View ArticleHubert Minnis claims election victory in The Bahamas
NASSAU, The Bahamas — Dr Hubert Minnis is the newly-elected Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, after delivering a crushing defeat to Perry Christie’s Progressive Liberal Party in a...
View ArticleIs the United States still a reliable partner for the Caribbean?
President Trump’s erratic policy shifts suggest that, in putting ‘America First’, Washington now regards small states in the Caribbean as collateral damageFor the Caribbean, the mitigation of climate...
View ArticleVenezuela’s instability poses humanitarian crisis for the Caribbean
UN report confirms that the Caribbean region is completely unprepared to deal with the humanitarian crisis that would follow a flood of refugees, should there be any further deterioration in the...
View ArticleDialogue, not ideology, needed on Venezuela
With the decision to recognise a parallel government in Venezuela, ideological foreign policy has been ratcheted up in the Americas. If left unchecked, it has unpredictable consequences for the...
View ArticleBarbados leads the Caribbean in perceived transparency
BRIDGETOWN — Barbados has the lowest level of perceived corruption in the Caribbean, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018. The country scored 68 out of a...
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