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Feature image designed using Canva Pro elements. By Matt Bishop, Tumasie Blair, Simona Marinescu, and Emily Wilkinson On May 27, the governments of the small island developing states known collectively as SIDS and their international partners will meet in Antigua and Barbuda. The goal of the meeting is to agree on the fourth decennial UN programme of action dedicated to their “special case for sustainable development,” under the tagline “charting the course toward resilient prosperity.” Known as “SIDS4” to insiders, the summit communiqué will agree on a framework for the Antigua and Barbuda Ag...
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A Hawksbill hatchling on Almond Beach, September 9, 2023. Photo by News Room Inc., courtesy Climate Tracker, used with permission. By Vishani Ragobeer This story was originally published by NewsRoom and recently won the award for Best Climate Justice Story in Climate Tracker's inaugural Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Awards. A version of the story is published below with permission. The Indigenous community of Almond Beach is one of 10 beaches along the 75-mile-long Shell Beach Protected Area in Barima-Waini, located in Guyana's Region One. Every year, you can find four endangered specie...
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Different types of teas enjoyed in Jamaica. Photo by Emma Lewis, used with permission. Tea is a significant part of Jamaican culture — and not just because its former colonisers are known to drink a great deal of it. Yes, it quenches thirst on hot days. Yes, it is “good fi yuh,” but it also connects Jamaicans with their ancestors. “Bush tea,” herbal tea that is drunk for health reasons, but also enjoyed by many, is embedded in Jamaican tradition and history, including its African heritage. “Bush” means countryside, and the drinking of bush tea remains very much the norm in rural areas. It is a...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. By Neil Marks This story was originally published by NewsRoom and recently won the award for Best Climate Justice Story in Climate Tracker's inaugural Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Awards. A version of the story is published below with permission. After years of campaigning by Guyana and other forest-rich nations, there is finally a mechanism to value the carbon dioxide stored in trees and to pay countries which have kept their forests standing. Guyana is the first country to benefit and is set to receive hundreds of millions of United States dollars. But so...
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Protestors in Aruba demonstrating against the island's environmental crisis. Photo courtesy of the ‘No More Hotels’ movement, used with permission. The Caribbean, with a rich and diverse history shaped by its Indigenous inhabitants, European colonisation, and strategic geographic location, is known by many in the developed world as simply a vacation spot. With white beaches and blue waters, this is where the privileged come to relax and unwind, usually without any care for the local population and its culture, but there is much more to the people and its environment than sprawling all-inclusiv...
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Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other for the first time. They hope the research could one day help better protect them. Like many whales and dolphins, sperm whales are highly social mammals and communicate by squeezing air through their respiratory systems to make strings of rapid clicks that can sound like an extremely loud zipper underwater. The clicks are also used as a form of echolocation to help them track their prey. Scientists have been trying for decades to un...
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Alicia Bowen-McCulskie, founder and executive director of Circle of Care Jamaica. Photo by Bokeh Clicks Fotos, used with permission. “Don’t tell your mother because she will beat you.” Not only did those words stay with Alicia Bowen-McCulskie, the founder and executive director of Circle of Care Jamaica, from the age of five; they also impacted how she has lived her life. The threat had come from her first abuser who, by instilling fear in his victim, secured a lifetime of secrecy and ultimately, his own protection. The weight of the secret, however, scarred Bowen-McCulskie until 2022, when sh...
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Feature image made with Canva Pro elements. The focus of the 2024 World Press Freedom Day, marked annually on May 3, is on the climate crisis. Between May 2 and 4, as UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) hosts the 31st World Press Freedom Day Conference, this time in Chile, discussions will be dedicated to the importance of freedom of expression against the backdrop of the current global environmental crisis. This year's theme is particularly pertinent for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like the Caribbean, which are often the first to feel the il...
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Drax Hall sugar plantation, Barbados, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Barbados’ prime minister, Mia Mottley, is well regarded as a progressive world leader and strong champion of the Caribbean region, outspoken on issues ranging from climate justice to reparations. Her administration's recent expression of interest in a land purchase from a descendant of slave traders, therefore, struck a sour note, eventually prompting her to address the nation on April 23 and announce that the deal would be put on pause. To many, the fact that the purchase was even on the table seemed out of step with ...
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A specimen of the Celestus occiduus housed at the Natural History Museum, London. Photo by Simon J. Tonge via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 DEED. This is the same lizard species that is being repatriated to Jamaica, though not the specific specimen. Culturally, many Jamaicans have a horror of lizards, shuddering at the mere thought of one. As such, many did not share the excitement of Jamaican and British scientists over a recent announcement by the University of the West Indies (UWI) that a specimen of the Jamaican Giant Galliwasp — presumed extinct — will be going home to Jamaica on April 24,...
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