Caribbean Corner

This week’s flash floods, mudslides, and heavier-than-usual rains in the South and Eastern Caribbean allowed several Caribbean leaders attending the global annual climate change meeting in Azerbaijan to point to the devastation in Grenada and Trinidad as proof that the region is an unwilling victim of climate change and should receive climate finance from the developed world. Grenadian Prime Minister and current Caribbean Community Chairman Dickon Mitchell argued that the region needs the money to prepare infrastructurally and otherwise for increasingly powerful storms affecting the area each year. “It is just testimony to what we are talking about. You can have high, unpredictable, and erratic, but also highly dangerous weather patterns that are significant that we have to prepare for and respond to. Again, we have to be doing our best in those circumstances to treat and manage with this on an ongoing basis. So, it’s just the new reality, the new norm that we h...