BELEM, Brazil – Caribbean agriculture faces an existential crisis as increasingly intense climate events devastate farming communities across the region, experts and development leaders have warned.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados Light & Power Company  (Light & Power) has answered the urgent call for assistance from the Jamaica Power Service Company (JPS) following the widespread outages caused by Hurricane Melissa.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Wednesday issued a donor alert to mobilise critical resources for the health response following Hurricane Melissa, which has left a trail of destruction across Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Monday he had used his attendance at the G20 conference in South Africa last weekend to underscore the importance of his country’s presence “both as a nation navigating a recent disaster”, as well as on behalf of the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM.

BELEM, Brazil – The 30th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began here on Monday, with a clear message that the era of half-measures is over and that climate change is real, devastating communities and driving up costs, but solutions are within reach.

BELEM, Brazil – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne Thursday called on the international community to adopt urgent action to address the escalating climate crisis,  particularly for Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

ROSEAU, Dominica – The Dominica government says it will commission its 10-megawatt geothermal power plant next month, as the country continues with efforts to transition to a cleaner, more resilient energy sector.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Tuesday sad that two weeks after Hurricane Melissa first made landfall in the Caribbean, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is reporting that people in Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti continue to rely on government-led humanitarian responses.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations has launched a US$74 million fund to aid Cuba in the wake of destruction caused by Hurricane Melisa.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The assistant director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), René Orellana Halkyer, says the future of food, sustainability, and global stability depends on the ongoing 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP30)in Brazil being more than a summit.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) will lead regional representation at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held Belém, Brazil. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says the preliminary estimate of the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa when it slammed into the country last Tuesday has been put at an estimated cost as high as seven billion US dollars.