News stories by Desmond Brown, page 15

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Feb 02 (IPS) - The tiny federation of St. Kitts-Nevis and its larger neighbour to the north, Jamaica, are leading the Caribbean's search for new ways to become more energy efficient by installing new solar streetlights, a green alternative to traditional ones.

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Jan 13 (IPS) - A new initiative is catching on in the Caribbean that aims to increase and sustain agricultural productivity by incorporating information about weather and climate into the farming process, all under the umbrella of climate-smart agriculture.

ROSEAU, Dominica, Dic 26 (IPS) - Imagine Guyana and Dominica without forests and rivers, or Antigua, Barbados and St. Lucia without beaches.

ROSEAU, Dominica, Dic 18 (IPS) - Eighty-year-old Rupert Lawrence has been living in the Dominica capital, Roseau, for nearly 60 years. Like visitors to the island, he too is fascinated by the fact that the town square has a river running right through its centre.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Dic 14 (IPS) - With the exception of oil rich Trinidad and Tobago, most, if not all, other Caribbean islands are extremely vulnerable when it comes to the high costs of imported fuels that are easily disrupted by natural disasters and other phenomena.

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Dic 05 (IPS) - Tourism-dependent Antigua may have been spared the ravages of superstorm Sandy, but the island is nevertheless feeling its effects on environmental, political and economic fronts.

CODRINGTON, Barbuda, Nov 30 (IPS) - Local scientists are warning the tiny 62-square-mile island of Barbuda is becoming one of the most vulnerable spots on earth to the consequences of climate change.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Oct 19 (IPS) - With the average age of a farmer in the Caribbean now 62 years old, there is growing concern that commercial agriculture is on a path to extinction – a dire scenario for a region already shouldering a massive food import bill.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Oct 17 (IPS) - The postcards portray sand, sea and sun. But key players in the Caribbean tourism industry are warning that it's time to shift gears away from the region's threatened coastlines and instead promote inland attractions like biodiversity.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sep 26 (IPS) - Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas remembers how quiet - even uneventful – this tiny twin-island federation was for the first four decades of his life.