Caribbean to Forge United Front on Elusive Climate Finance Peter Richards Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, says the promises of money by the “biggest polluters in the world” for small island developing states (SIDS) like his to adapt to climate change are a mostly a “mirage”. But as chair of the 15-member Caribbean Community …MORE > > |
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The Race to Save the Caribbean’s Banana Industry Desmond Brown When Dean, the first storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, lashed Dominica on Aug. 16, it left behind a trail of destruction, claimed the lives of a mother and son, and decimated the island’s vital banana industry. Seven years later, Dominica’s agricultural sector remains painfully … MORE > > |