BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The center of Tropical Storm Jerry is expected to pass north of the Leeward Islands this morning and then move away from the islands later on Friday, with residents in those islands being warned to be prepared for flash flooding.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government has discontinued the tropical storm warning for all of the Central Bahamas and for portions of the northwestern Bahamas, as Tropical Storm Imelda, which is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday is expected to move across the northwestern Bahamas on Monday.

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.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica will host a four-day biennial summit that will address mounting environmental pressures on the Caribbean Sea and set the strategic direction for regional marine conservation efforts.

NASSAU, Bahamas – For the 40th year, Blue Lagoon Island’s Project B.E.A.C.H. (Bahamas Education of Animals and Conservation of Habitat) united hundreds of volunteers for the International Coastal Cleanup, tackling marine debris at Yamacraw Beach and safeguarding The Bahamas’ eastern shoreline.

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.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Residents in the northern Leeward Islands were on Tuesday being urged to monitor the passage of tropical storm Jerry, the 10th named storm of this year’s Atlantic Hurricane season that could become a hurricane by the end of this week.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A UK-based ocean farming company is providing the technology to transform the Caribbean’s sargassum seaweed problem into a sustainable business.

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. 

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Suriname is seeking to become the first country in the world to issue Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs), a new mechanism within the Paris Climate Agreement, similar to carbon credits and is looking to the German-based Deutsche Bank for assistance.

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.