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.

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.

WASHINGTON, DC –  Recent remarks by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have drawn attention to the Panama Canal. He accused the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) of charging higher fees for U.S. ships passing through the canal compared to other nations.

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.

It may be the dead of winter, but when we think about our beaches none of us want to picture them covered in oil. That is true for those of us who live along the water and those who live hundreds of miles from any ocean. Regardless of our generation, we can all picture what it looks like. For some, it is the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.

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.

It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, care little about the existential threats faced by small states.