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Almost a year after her rip-roaring speech to the international community at COP26 in Glasgow on the need for more climate-financing to protect vulnerable states like those in the Caribbean, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley was in the global spotlight once again, this time calling out what she believes are onerous financial rules being imposed by the U.S. and other industrialized nations that make Caribbean markets uncompetitive.

Scott Roberton celebrates 30 years with MarineMax this year. He’s also the recipient of several awards from major yacht manufacturers. To say he knows his way around a luxury yacht would be an understatement. 
 
Scott has worked with clients around the globe to customize vessels to suit individual tastes and lifestyles.

Some things just stick, like an iconic ad jingle or the taste of the butter you've grown up eating.

It's what makes consumers fall in love with a brand and stay loyal to it. India has a host of home-grown brands that have found their way into the homes and hearts of millions over the decades.

Known as “the most influential artist in Mexico,” Gilda Garza is an internationally recognized painter constantly pushing the boundaries between emotion and art.

As America approaches September’s Hispanic Heritage Month, this award-winning Mexico native prepares to make history with a moving collaborative collection by sculptural artist Mario Furlan in a live exhibition at New Murano, Atelier Muranese.

Jamaica has launched its ‘Operation Birthright,’ a campaign intended to issue free birth certificates to as many as 11,000 children and adult citizens who do not have the birth registration document. This will happen before enrolment begins, in a few months, by the National Identification System (NIDS), for the country’s digital ID scheme, reports the Jamaica Gleaner.

During the Economic Forum in Karpacz, Żabka Polska presented a new kind of shop – Eko Smart, combining sustainable solutions with new technological developments. The first such shop will be opened in Poznań, with 3 more to follow.

Żabka Eko Smart continues and combines the projects that the company has been implementing since 2020, when the first shop powered by 100% green energy was launched in Warsaw. 

Caribbean leaders shared their reflections following the passing of Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II, with Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, leading the remarks, saying: “As we reflect on the life and service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we can all agree that she was a portrait of dignity in how she conducted the affairs of State and remains an exemplar in leadership. Her grace, elegance and humility will be remembered throughout (the) ages.” 

The Indian Government on Friday announced that there would be one day State Mourning throughout the country in the wake of death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said: "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be remembered as a stalwart of our times.

The relationship between Britain and the Caribbean islands is a long and complicated one – with Trinidad and Barbados formally severing ties to become republics and other independent islands such as Jamaica and St. Kitts & Nevis also set to follow suit. Other Commonwealth nations outside of the Caribbean include India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

On behalf of the American people and the U.S. Embassy community, I express my deepest condolences to the Royal Family on the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.  We grieve with the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

 
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
A PROCLAMATION

  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch.  She defined an era.

As night fell at Buckingham Palace, the crowds continued to gather to reflect on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II as young and old tried to make their way to the crowded gates to lay their flowers. With a sea of people taking in the moment, and applause and cheers broke out, it was still clear that the announcement of the death of The Queen, the Commonwealth’s longest serving monarch, was just nigh on impossible to take in.

Jamaica secured several major accolades at this year’s staging of the World Travel Awards Caribbean & The America’s Gala, held at Sandals, Montego Bay.

Jamaica has been named the Caribbean’s Leading Destination 2022, for the 16th straight year. Jamaica also copped the award for Caribbean’s Leading Cruise Destination 2022, Caribbean’s Leading Tourist Board 2022, for the 14th year in a row and Caribbean’s Leading Nature Destination 2022.

This summer, Pakistan has seen some of the heaviest monsoon rains in years, resulting in severe floods in the country's south.  

Around 1,200 people have died so far due to the floods and thousands of homes have been destroyed in mainly south Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and KPK. Record monsoon rains were causing a "catastrophe of epic scale", Pakistan's climate change minister Sherry Rehman said, as she made an international appeal for help in dealing with floods.

Happy Diamond Jubilee, Trinidad and Tobago! This week I am taking time to shine some light on the achievements of the land of my birth on the occasion of 60 years of independence.

While I primarily identify as Bajan, I am in fact a proud Trinidad-born West Indian national with Guyanese roots – born in Trinidad and Tobago to Bajan and Guyanese parents, who perhaps would not have been responsible for my arrival had they not met while studying at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Scraping the smelly sargassum seaweed off some beaches on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast has become not only a nightmare, but possibly a health threat, for the workers doing it — with the quantities washing ashore this year seemingly mountains not mounds.

Decomposing sargassum, which is actually algae, generates hydrogen sulphide gas. In small amounts in open areas, it’s not much more than an annoying odor: sulphurous, like rotting eggs.