Before last December’s climate change conference in Copenhagen, global public opinion was clearly supportive of an internationally agreed initiative to address the man-made aspects of global warming; now it is more divided. The failure of the conference to reach a binding agreement; revelations that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had dissemina...

The need for a new global climate deal is "greater than ever", according to developing country delegates speaking at the opening of UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Blocs representing the poorest nations called for intensive talks during the year, leading to agreement on a legally binding treaty in December. The EU backed the call, re-stating that the conclusion of D...

Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer is putting a brave face on things but the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP), sensing blood, is tightening the screws in its bid to see the back of...

A Malawian official has defended in a BBC interview plans to make it a crime for a person who knows they are HIV positive to infect someone else. Plans for the new bill were announc...

The European Commission (EC) has, once again, let down the Caribbean; this time on rum. All rum producers in the Dominican Republic and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are f...

With Cuban pork roast on the menu, Salsa classes on a Thursday and animated Spanish competing with the Latin beat, De Havana club in the South Sudanese capital Juba feels as though ...