WASHINGTON, DC – The governments of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering. That is the bleak truth behind a new UN report whose numbers should shame every leader or diplomatic representative  who speaks of global responsibility.

WASHINGTON, DC – The practice has an ugly name and an uglier intent: arbitrary detention in State-to-State relations means this: tyrannical regimes seize innocents to make other governments submit to their wishes. As I said on October 28, 2025, at the United Nations, this is “not diplomacy; it is coercion in daylight.” The principle at stake concerns every nation, large or small.

Narcissus from Greek mythology was so vain, overly obsessed with his looks, that he gazed intently at his reflection in a stream, lost in self-admiration, slipped, fell in and drowned. But what about those mortal persons who exhibit the traits of narcissism?

A curse is a terrible thing, as it inflicts great harm on the person who is cursed, and gives great power to the one who is inflicting that curse. And to make it worse, sometimes those curses don’t go away when the person dies, but are passed on down from generation to generation. Cursed forever.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Today, 24 October marks United Nations Day, our 80th anniversary under the theme The Future We Want: The UN We Need: Reaffirming Our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism.

UNITED NATIONS – Up to illegal 500,000 weapons raging from handguns to battlefield-grade semi-automatic rifles are thought to be in the hands of gangs in Haiti, even though the Caribbean country has been under a UN arms embargo for the last three years.

WASHINGTON, DC – Blessed by nature with lush forests, coral reefs and a strategic location near Mexico and the United States, Belize’s economy is highly reliant on tourism, which directly contributes about 12 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). But infrastructure bottlenecks restrict the future growth of the tourism industry.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The last four months of 2025 are packed with regional, hemispheric, and global activities in a toxic and turbulent geopolitical, military, economic, and physical environment. Individually, these activities pose significant challenges to the social, economic, physical, and environmental sustainability of the Region.

WASHINGTON, DC – The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order,” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies and the fine print of charters, it was power that wrote the rules and altered them at will. The difference today is that the altering is done in full view and only a few feign surprise.

WASHINGTON, DC – Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the right to govern itself, protect its territory, and determine its own destiny.

WASHINGTON, DC – Four days after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government reaffirmed the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, Prime Minister Kamla Persad‑Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago startled the region with a public statement that CARICOM should “get together” and take some of the “illegal Venezuelans” sheltering in her country, and that the Community should press Caracas to accept two hundred Venezuelans now in Trinidad’s prisons. 

WASHINGTON, DC – The Dominican Republic (DR) is hosting the 2025 Summit of the Americas – a gathering of the Heads of State and Government of 32 countries of the Western Hemisphere.