US House Republicans attempt to block US-Cuba embassies
House Republicans have proposed a new bill to limit funding for a US Embassy in Cuba and other aspects of US-Cuba normalisation
Puerto Rico seeks to raise US$1.2b in new taxes
Amid rising levels of unemployment and poverty, as well as unprecedented outward migration, Puerto Rico tries to raise more than $1 bil through new taxes
Hollande faux pas renews debate over Haiti’s independence debt
Despite Haiti being forced to pay billions in reparations to former slave-owners in France in exchange for its own independence, the French president has a different concept of what constitutes “moral debt”
Backgrounder on Guyana’s 2015 parliamentary elections
A look at the PPP/C Government’s track records, election campaigns and the campaign promises of the APNU+AFC alliance contesting the polls
U.S-Cuba travel faces new congressional roadblock
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) has introduced provisions that would severely limit any regular travel and trade between the U.S. and Cuba
Are Britain’s political parties lukewarm to The Commonwealth?
In the lead up to the May 7 General Elections in the UK, no political party except UKIP has made a substantive pivot to The Commonwealth – but the Commonwealth isn’t helping itself, either
