Caribbean Seaweed Innovation: What If Sargassum Wasn’t a Problem?
Where there should be clear blue waves, an uninvited guest now sprawls — sargassum, bloated with brown sludge, reeking of rot, and slowly devouring Caribbean shorelines. The New Normal: A Seaweed Invasion The invasion of seaweed along Caribbean shores has intensified year after year, with scientists pointing fingers at climate change. As ocean temperatures rise […]
T&T’s Foreign Exchange Crisis Explained: Understanding the USD Shortage
Trinidad and Tobago has faced an intensifying shortage of U.S. dollars, leaving businesses scrambling, travelers frustrated, and economists warning of deeper structural cracks in the country’s foreign exchange system. What’s driving this persistent scarcity, and what does it signal for the future of the economy? Read more below.
The 2025 Brief: Can the Caribbean Keep Up?
The calm, the chaos, the Caribbean Are we growing or just drifting? To the untrained eyes, the Caribbean is sun, sand, and slow pace. But beneath the waves lies a region wrestling with seismic shifts, economic, cultural, and generational. The IMF predicts growth in the Caribbean at 2.0%, a slowdown from 2.4% in 2024. This deceleration […]