https://player.vimeo.com/video/547677317?app_id=122963 Evan Cayetano, IDB Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist reads John Knight’s poem on Water. With its invigorating vegetation, rivers, waterfalls, and aqua jeweled-toned seas, Jamaica, formerly Xaymaca – the land of wood and water – is world-renowned for its beauty, watercourses and seas that keep visitors and locals … [Read more...] about Talisman the Goat and the Search for Water
Climate Change
Time for Resilience: Announcing the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator
By the Caribbean Climate-Smart Coalition Many of us are still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Our Caribbean countries have experienced deep pain; we lost everything – our homes, our livelihoods, but we certainly did not lose our spirit. Too often we treat our problems with a Band-Aid solution hoping that the next hurricane will not hit. But … [Read more...] about Time for Resilience: Announcing the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator
The IDB partners with the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator to build the first climate-smart zone
IDB’s US$1billion commitment to climate-smart investments The President of the Inter-American Development Bank Luis Alberto Moreno and Founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson hosted the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator launch, on August 9 at 12PM EST at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus Assembly Hall Kingston, Jamaica. The Most Honourable Andrew … [Read more...] about The IDB partners with the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator to build the first climate-smart zone