KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - JAMAICA MUST this year push for not only "adequate and predictable" financing, but also for further work on the international mechanism on loss and damage, to protect it and other vulnerable countries from slow-onset events such as ocean acidification.
So said Clifford Mahlung, one of the island's seasoned climate negotiators and the Latin America and Caribbean representative on the Adaptation Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
His comments come ahead of the Warsaw climate talks set for later this year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Sections of the private sector remain sceptical about the chances of success of Jamaica's 48-month extended fund facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite confirmation that policy implementation was strong in the first quarter of the programme.
The Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), in a communiqué issued following a meeting on Wednesday, said that in discussions with IMF and government officials, members expressed concern that economic growth continued to elude Jamaica.

AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s parliament voted yesterday to quit the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but the Hague-based tribunal said it would press ahead anyway with the trials of the country’s president and his deputy.
Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are accused of orchestrating violence after elections in 2007. About 1,200 people were killed in ethnic blood-letting that plunged east Africa’s biggest economy into crisis.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - Still chastened by the unforgettable lies told by former President George Bush for “regime change” in Baghdad – achieved at horrific, mind-boggling human cost and devastation of Iraq – the American people should know that in our Caribbean region there are also deep anxieties over President Barack Obama’s impending US-led military attack in Syria.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar on Thursday reshuffled her Cabinet placing yet another person at the helm of the Ministry of National Security. Gary Griffith, who was the security advisor to the Prime Minister has been appointed National Security Minister, becoming the fourth person to hold the critical post, since the Peoples Partnership took power three years ago. The Prime Minister announced the changes to her Cabinet at a post-Cabinet press briefing held at the Office of the Prime Minister on Thursday afternoon.