Why Nicolás Maduro appears 13 times on the ballot for Venezuela’s presidential election
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — His smile is confident, his hair well-combed and his eyes are squinting slightly: The first candidate you’ll likely see on the ballot…
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Away from global attention, Sudan is starving
The risk of a devastating famine is rising exponentially across Sudan. According to a recent report by the United Nations’ hunger monitor, a “stark and rapid…
Is AI the answer for better government services?
Long before ChatGPT came along, governments were keen to use chatbots to automate their services and advice. Those early chatbots “tended to be simpler, with…
Big stakes and high tension as Biden-Trump debate looms
When Donald Trump and Joe Biden take to the debate stage on Thursday night, it will be a reunion of sorts – although not exactly…
Brazilian to become first head of Interpol from developing world
BRASILIA, June 25 (Reuters) – Interpol’s executive committee on Tuesday for the first time elected a police official from a developing nation to head the…
Haiti Must Center Women in Its Transition to Succeed
Sasha Filippova is the Senior Staff Attorney for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). IJDH is a U.S.-based human rights non-profit organization…
Patterson calls African, Caribbean leaders to action at Afreximbank meeting in Nassau
FORMER JAMAICA Prime Minister, Percival J. Patterson, delivered an impassioned call to action as they deliberated at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Africa Export-Import…
Age anxiety hangs over first Biden-Trump debate
For Joe Biden and Donald Trump – the two oldest candidates ever to seek the US presidency – age is an election issue neither can…
Haiti: A call to action for all Caribbean and Latin American countries
By: Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean Although the most recent evidence shows signs of improvement…
I Love Having Sex For Money
Five years ago, on a Thursday afternoon in June, I met a man who would change my life forever. I was working at a bank in Basseterre when one of my clients came in close to closing to make a $15,000 cash withdrawal. When I looked at his account balance and realised that that figure barely put a dent in his total savings (plus, he had a few other accounts), I looked up to really look at who it was. He looked back at me – I think he recognised the look I was giving him – and smiled. He took his cash and left.