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It may seem as if the world is finally taking the climate crisis seriously, judging by the number of pledges to reach ‘net-zero emissions’. Among the major emitters, both the United States and the European Union have promised to achieve this goal...

China’s Huawei Technologies Company is providing smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare, creating new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from United States sanctions. In the southern...

Yahoo Inc said Tuesday it has pulled out of China, citing an increasingly challenging operating environment. The withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked by China’s digital censorship. But recent...

Barbados is to establish a green bank that will facilitate private investment in domestic low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure. “We’ve started the discussions with them [officials of the Green Climate Fund] on the absolute necessity for a...

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, says that the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of St Kitts-Nevis has been “severe”, and will need a resurgence of tourism activity to recover. Following consultations with twin-island federation, the...

World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric on Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations. The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the talks, known as...

Jamaica Broilers Group, JBG, has backed out of a decision to acquire the assets of a US-based poultry processor, with the single reason given to shareholders by President and CEO Chris Levy being that the process was “complicated”. The poultry...

The United States wants to deepen its relationship with Taiwan, the self-ruled island that has become a major point of conflict in the strained US-China relationship, and will work to counter Beijing’s “malign” influence, a US diplomat said Friday...

If you have been asked to create a multiday, online event, you may want it to be everything a live event should be. But you could also be wondering: Should it try to mimic a face-to-face experience? And what does success even look like in this...

Resilience is a word that Prime Minister Andrew Holness often uses. He picked that expression in a November 2017 climate change speech. He used it again in June 2018 when he spoke at the Outreach Session of the G7 Summit in Quebec, Canada. “...

The Belize government says it will be able to wipe away a significant amount that the country owes external creditors by retiring all of its US dollar bonds due in 2034. The Caribbean country is looking to restructure a US$572 million superbond...