CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission announced on Monday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Solar Alliance (ISA) to strengthen support for the member countries of the sub-region in advancing their sustainable energy goals.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali has issued a call for urgent international action to halt the planet’s escalating biodiversity crisis, warning that continued species loss will threaten food security, medicine, and cultural heritage worldwide.

MIAMI, FL – Tropical Storm Erin is expected to become a hurricane in a “couple of days” as it continues to move westward and approximately 1, 400 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it has reached financial close on a facility for the landmark Dominica geothermal energy project.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - President Dr Irfaan Ali has cautioned that the tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could undermine the success of the upcoming UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans are being urged to play a more active role in driving the shift toward environmentally friendly alternatives as the country now enters the fourth phase of its national single-use plastic ban.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua –  The government of Japan has donated a state of the art aquatic plant harvester to Antigua and Barbuda, to be used to address the ongoing challenge of the proliferation of sargassum seaweed along its shores.

MIAMI, FL – A weakening Hurricane Erin is expected to pass to the east of the southeastern Bahamas on Monday and move between Bermuda and the east coast of the United States by the middle of the week.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana will become the first country in the world to implement a fully standardized, border-to-border national biodiversity monitoring system by 2030, President Irfaan Ali has said.

PANAMA CITY – A new report by two United Nations agencies warns that climate change could push at least 5.9 million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030 unless governments act now. 

MIAMI, FL – Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to  strengthen into the first hurricane of this year’s  Atlantic hurricane season on Friday as residents in the Leeward Islands as well as St. Martin and St. Barthelemy, Saba and St. Eustatius as well as Sint Maarten are urged to  monitor its progress.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Local scientists have turned to modern technology, including artificial intelligence to protect native bats as they face mounting threats, such as habitat loss, human disturbance, invasive predators and exposure to pesticides.