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Allan Providence, senior officer at Union Island Airport, says he has seen the sea rise significantly over the past 22 years. (Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS)

Union Islanders wonder if their home will be the next Atlantis

By Kenton X. Chance KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (IPS) — Fifteen years ago, Stephanie Browne, a former Member of Parliament in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, needed only to look at…

1 Jul 2015 7:30PM

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Members of a breakaway faction of the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe protest against homosexuality. (Photo: Reuters)

Why anti-gay sentiment remains strong in much of Africa

12 Jun 2015 5:34AM

Vincentian educator Mavis Findlay-Joseph, right during an appointment at The Massachusetts Association of Chapter 766 Approved Private School.

Vincentian educator hoping to implement special ed lessons learnt in US

11 Jun 2015 9:08AM

Should we teach our children to share? Or let nature take its course?

9 Jun 2015 4:31AM

walls, like this one in the Bahamas, serve to protect areas of human habitation, conservation and leisure activities from the action of tides and waves. (Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS.)

Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea

9 Jun 2015 4:20AM

Cattle seek refuge from the searing heat among shrubbery in Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (Credit: Kenton X. Chance/IPS)

Prolonged drought leaves Caribbean farmers broke and worried

By Kenton X. Chance CASTRIES, Jun 2 2015 (IPS) – St. Lucian farmer Anthony Herman was hoping that next year he’d manage to recoup some of the losses he sustained after…

2 Jun 2015 4:41PM

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