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October 2024

  • King Charles III told a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Samoa he understood how ‘the most painful aspects of our past continue to resonate.’

    King Charles acknowledges ‘painful’ past as calls for slavery reparations grow at Commonwealth summit

    Some leaders had hoped Charles might use his speech at Chogm in Samoa as an opportunity to apologise for Britain’s colonial past
  • Rachel Reeves, smiling, walks through a corridor

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

    Former chancellor says ‘increasing borrowing means interest rates would be higher for longer’ as Reeves says it will ‘make space for investment’

    • Keir Starmer urged to ‘engage’ on reparations at Commonwealth summit

    • Weather tracker
      Weather tracker: Hurricane Oscar gathers strength in Atlantic as Australia swelters

    • UK facing calls at Commonwealth summit to pay billons for role in climate crisis

August 2024

  • side by side images of two men in T-shirts and shorts on a road and an aerial view of a flooded neighbourhood

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    A brutal hurricane razed their town. Five years later, they’re still searching for home

    Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas in 2019. Its poorest survivors are being pushed from one shantytown to the next

July 2024

  • Taylor Casey has gone missing in the Bahamas.

    Family of missing woman in Bahamas shielded trans identity over fears of bias

    Family of Taylor Casey, missing since 19 June, say Bahamian officials left them with ‘more questions than answers’

June 2024

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    A common condition
    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

    New coalition formed to push for repeal of colonial-era laws and reduce barriers to access for those seeking mental health help

March 2024

  • Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX

    Sam Bankman-Fried will appeal his 25-year sentence – as it happened

    Sentence for former CEO of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange is lower than the 40-50 years prosecutors asked for

February 2024

  • Conditions on a slave ship, as imagined by Johann Moritz Rugendas in 1830.

    ‘Highway to horror’: 14 wrecked slavers’ ships are identified in Bahamas

    Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past

December 2023

  • Mortuary services personnel transport the body of a victim of a fatal shark attack in the Bahamas.

    Boston woman killed by shark attack while paddleboarding in Bahamas

    Woman was reported to have just gotten married and the man paddleboarding with her as her groom

November 2023

  • Josie Cox

    The problem with Sam Bankman-Fried? We wanted to believe in him

    Josie Cox
    Hungry for innovation, we’re blind to hubris, misguided egos and wishful thinking, says the journalist and broadcaster Josie Cox

September 2023

  • An aerial view of a narrow strip of land in Funafuti, Tuvalu, with blue waters on each side.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Small island nations take high-emitting countries to court to protect the ocean

    Countries threatened by rising sea levels are asking a tribunal to decide on responsibility for pollution of the marine environment

July 2023

  • Malea Tribble on her paddleboard as the shark trails behind her.

    Paddleboarders in close brush with hammerhead shark off Florida coast

    Gabriel Barajas and Malea Tribble thought ‘it was all over for us’ – but marine expert suggests shark was merely being ‘inquisitive’

June 2023

  • An idyllic white sand beach with palm trees and a turquoise sea

    Opinion
    What’s the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Barring public access to beaches and other sites is not a model for development. Transparency and engagement are needed

May 2023

  • A destroyed house is seen in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, in 2019.

    Why rising sea levels pose existential threat to the Bahamas – extract

  • Nova Peris

    Commonwealth Indigenous leaders demand apology from the king for effects of colonisation

April 2023

  • FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the US federal courthouse in New York City on March 30, 2023

    FTX could be revived as more customers’ funds recovered, say lawyers

    Cryptocurrency exchange collapsed last year but assets worth $7.3bn have now been retrieved

December 2022

  • The former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at court in Nassau, the Bahamas

    FTX assets worth $3.5bn held by Bahamas securities regulator

  • Sam Bankman-Fried is walked in handcuffs to a plane in Nassau, Bahamas, on 21 December.

    Ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried out on $250m bail after extradition from Bahamas

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