BRIDGETOWN, Barbados –  The fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the world’s poorest countries.

Donald Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how brutally he went after our country’s working people in the first few days – even the first few hours – after he was sworn in last week.

Ratepayers beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export) agenda is going to raise energy costs for American households.

"I don't know who you are and I don't know why you like this guy (Trump). I think what you like about him; he appears to be strong and the rest of us are weak… That's what he's selling…Here's what you're buying…He's a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn't represent my party. He doesn't represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for... He's the ISIL man of the year." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on CNN 2015

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, CMC – Within hours of his second inauguration as President of the United States on January 20, Donald Trump issued a sweeping series of Executive Orders (EOs). 

It is official: 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures not only surpassed 2023 as the previous hottest year, they leapt – for the first time – past the goal set in the Paris Climate Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Recently, the smaller member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have renewed complaints that the promised benefits and compensatory mechanisms that convinced them to join first CARIFTA in 1968, and later CARICOM in 1973, have not materialized. 

WASHINGTON, DC – When students across the Caribbean received their Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results last summer, a concerning picture emerged: only 4.9 per cent of students—close to 200,000 students for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams—passed five or more subjects, including Mathematics and English.

WASHINGTON, DC  – The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region faces much uncertainty in 2025. This uncertainty is because of the many political changes around the world, the impact of ongoing wars, the rising tide of crime and violence in the region and growing fiscal and debt management difficulties.

Take away someone’s freedom and you basically take away their life. That’s why prisons are so effective in their punishment, as they are designed to strip away the freedom of those who are sent there.

WASHINGTON, Jan 22, CMC -The Bahamas is taking bold steps to transform its electricity sector and build resilience to climate change

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens is more relevant today than ever. The wealthy and powerful are meeting again this year in glamorous Davos, at an invitation-only event. They arrive in chartered aircraft and private jets to speak about our warming climate, among other global concerns.