BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Earlier this year, I met a young graduate who had spent the entire summer searching for a job that matched her education—without success. As the weeks passed and her options narrowed, she applied to a local meat shop, hoping to find some form of employment. But even there, she was turned away – she was “overqualified” to pack chicken legs.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) from June 30 to July  3, in Spain, arrives at a moment of reckoning.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 20, CMC -The facts are clear: the world is experiencing more frequent, less predictable, and more costly extreme weather events. Last year, the hottest in documented history, floods, hurricanes, series of cyclones, cold spells, record-breaking heat waves – all occurred around the world, and many were labelled as “once-in-a-generation events”. Yet these events have one thing in common: they are increasingly extreme and destructive, often beyond expectations and predictions.

WASHINGTON, DC – The situation in Haiti is worsening, and the ordinary people of Haiti—already among the most impoverished in the Western Hemisphere—are its most tragic victims. 

In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working families. That creates ripe conditions for demagogues to come out of the woodwork offering an easy answer for people’s pain. And if history teaches us anything, that answer is usually someone else to blame.

Everyone talks about daddy’s girl and women with daddy issues, but rarely do we hear of the impact that absent fathers have on daughters. A research paper showed that girls who grew up without fathers experienced puberty earlier than girls who did, and actually had earlier menstrual cycles. ‘According to research, girls who grow up without a father in the household tend to hit puberty earlier than girls with a present father, with studies showing a link between father absence and earlier onset of puberty, particularly in breast development and pubic hair growth.’

WASHINGTON, DC – The 55th Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) will be held in one of its smallest member states at a time of global political and economic uncertainty. That uncertainty is reflected across the Americas and within the OAS itself.

WASHINGTON, May 29, CMC – When Russian drones stalk civilians along Ukraine’s Dnipro River and Gaza’s hospitals lie in ruins under relentless bombardment, the world cannot pretend that these are distant crises. Yet the UN Security Council, which is entrusted to uphold global peace, is paralyzed by the self-interest of its veto powers, exposing its failure to fulfil both its mandate and its duty to safeguard humanity.

WASHINGTON, DC – “A nation without borders is not a nation”. That is the opening line of an advisory issued by the U.S. Department of State on May 15.

Everyone needs something to hold on to, and it was Karl Marx who said, “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” Ergo, people need religion to be their drug, their balm, their salvation.

WASHINGTON, DC – On May 25, a day before Guyana commemorates its 59th year of independence, the government of Nicolás Maduro says it intends to stage elections in Guyana’s Essequibo region. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Europe Day, celebrated each year on May 9, marks more than a moment in history. It honours a simple but extraordinary vision: to build peace through cooperation. In a world increasingly defined by conflict and fragmentation, that choice remains both bold and relevant.