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The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS 4), 27-30 May 2024.

The late Ambassador Miles Stoby. (GP) Barbados will celebrate the late Guyanese diplomat Ambassador Miles Stoby’s pivotal role in championing the cause of s ...

The Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM) will host its sixth high-level forum of Ministers responsible for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Grenada. The session will be held from April 11-12, 2024, at the Royalton Hotel. Ministers from the 16 member states responsible for the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) for the Caribbean are expected to participate, along with the PISLM Executive Dir...

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has asked for ‘An Ode to the Environment’ to be formally introduced into the education curriculum. While giving her tribute to the late Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford in Parliament Thursday afternoon, Mottley said she believed the 30-year-old poem should be taught in schools as it will become paramount to their future. “I am asking for it to be formally included in our curriculum …

Rebuilding and vulnerability: SVG and La Soufrière Social Share THIS IS PERHAPS the most difficult article I have written since I started writing for Searchlight. This difficulty arises from the fact that just under two weeks ago, the Soufrière volcano in my beloved St. Vincent and the Grenadines erupted explosively, displacing thousands and creating widespread damage. The situation is certainly heartbreaking and overwhelming; yet even amidst the despair, the outpouring of goodwi...

Date Time Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener Bridgetown Barbados, February 2, 2021 – The Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today signed the Barbados Declaration, in which they called for the integration of environmental issues to be placed at the heart of the region’s COVID-19 recovery strategies, with economic reactivation based on social inclusion, low carbon and resilient economies, and the conservation and sustainabl...

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness (right) at the UN SIDS Summit in 2019. “SIDS are a special case for sustainable development. They require concerted long-term attention and investment of the entire international community.” UN SG at 74th UNGA 2019 Guyana and Suriname, member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), are among the few countries globally which still have significant natural forest, having 60 per cent and 91 per cent coverage, respectively. In Jamaica, 26 per cent ...