UNITED NATIONS – The headlines are dominated by a world in trouble. By conflict and climate chaos. By rising human suffering. By growing geo-political divides.

WASHINGTON, DC – Haiti continues to wallow in deep crisis as criminal gangs entrench their violent control over nearly 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince and other parts of the country. These armed groups have become a de facto regime of terror.

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.

Mothers are special, and children hold them near and dear to their hearts as that love is deep, lasting and unconditional. Mothers often have to raise children all by themselves, and the plight of the single mother is well known among many societies. It’s a difficult task, yet many mothers do it with grace, dignity, strength and love for the child. And yet, in many cases somehow it doesn’t turn out well for the child, especially if it’s a boy, for strong though she may be, a mother cannot be a father, and boys need fathers.

ABUJA, Nigeria— Grenada’s Attorney General, Claudette Joseph, is urging Caribbean and African leaders to replace “the great triangle” that has for centuries linked travel and trade and replace it with a direct bridge between both regions.

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 – When it occurred, in the early 1970s in Guyana, it caused a serious period of apprehension. In what was seen as an abuse of power, a politician in Guyana slapped Rickey Singh, an intrepid journalist, because he was displeased with the content of a newspaper report.

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 – For decades, Caribbean tourism has been synonymous with sun, sea, and sand. These natural assets remain a source of beauty, pride, and economic promise

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.