Climate action lags as COVID hits goals in developing nations
Kingston, JamaicaThomson Reuters Foundation From higher shipping costs for solar panels to employee layoffs, a plethora of pandemic-related ills have hindered efforts to fight climate change in the Caribbean nation of Grenada. And it is not alone. Across the world, COVID-19 has hit economic growth and tax revenue, making it harder for governments – particularly in developing nations – to […]
Paradise lost? Barbuda land activists seek action from Commonwealth
Thomson Reuters Foundation Activists are urging Commonwealth leaders meeting in Britain this week to throw their weight behind a campaign to preserve a centuries-old communal land ownership system on the Caribbean island of Barbuda. After Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1834, Barbudans developed a system of communal land ownership, now threatened by government […]
Haiti mourns with at least 800 people killed in Hurricane Matthew
Haiti began three days of national mourning on Sunday after more than 800 people died when Hurricane Matthew – the fiercest storm to hit the country in more than a decade – swept across the Caribbean nation last week. The hurricane, which also killed four people in the Dominican Republic, went on to make landfall […]