Cuba is in for another phase of severe belt-tightening as a number of factors, some beyond its control, seem to be conspiring in a perfect storm of challenges facing communist Caribbean state.
With each passing day, more harrowing accounts are coming to the fore of what residents of the Bahamas had to endure during the passage of Hurricane Dorian.
The constitutional and even political implications of an historic ruling by the British Supreme Court this past Tuesday will continue to echo, reverberate, be debated for years to come.
Britain’s long, winding and bumpy Brexit road continues to encounter more potholes.
The enormity of the task facing the Bahamas is daunting to say the least, as it tries to pick up the pieces from deadly Hurricane Dorian.
Over a period of more than 24 hours from Sunday well into Monday, Category Five-rated Hurricane Dorian pounded the northern Bahamas islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with ferocious winds, incessant rainfall and storm surges.
In the meantime, the Brazilan government has accepted a donation of 4US 5 million from the Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio to help with fighting the Amazon fires.
With eyes anxiously focused on what could potentially be the first major storm bearing down on the Caribbean for this year’s hurricane season, an issue of post-disaster funding is equally focusing minds.
With the United Kingdom locked in an acrimonious spat with the European Union - and internally - over Brexit, it’s becoming well nigh impossible to find a space for the Overseas Territories amongst the pressing issues occupying the attention of the ‘mother country’ at present.
This final political push to persuade and ‘hoover-up’ any floating and uncertain votes, underlines the knife’s edge on which this election is now poised.