By Alyssa A. L. James
Alyssa A. L. James, Ph.D. is a Jamaican Canadian anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities.
This letter, addressed to the Honorable Representatives of the United States Embassies in the Caribbean, was sent to the US Embassies in Guyana, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Haiti, Suriname and Jamaica on November 18, 2024.
By Byron Blake
Ambassador Byron Blake is former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM.
By Farah Nibbs
Farah Nibbs is Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in The Conversation on October 22, 2024.
By Savitri Persaud
Dr. Savitri Persaud is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Qualitative Research Lead at the University of Toronto in the Department of Health and Society and previously the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
By Magdalee Brunache
Magdalee Brunache is from Haiti, and is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, specializing in Development Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto
As I sit down to write this, it has just been announced that the humanitarian parole program, which allowed Haitians to enter the United States over the past two years, will not be renewed.
By Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka
Dr. Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka is a Fellow in Residence at the Department of Global and International Studies at Carleton University and a respected leader in global environmental and climate justice circles.
Dr Nigel Clarke and the IMF
By Byron Blake
Ambassador Byron Blake is former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations and former assistant secretary general of CARICOM.
By Neville Trotz
Now retired, Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize.
By Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is a feminist, activist, poet and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and also writes a column in the Trinidad Newsday.
By Neville Trotz
Now retired, Ulric (Neville) Trotz was formerly the Deputy Director & Science Adviser, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belmopan, Belize.
By Red Thread, Guyana
A recent regional hearing on corporal punishment and its impact on the rights of children in the Caribbean was organized by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights.