At a panel organized by AS/COA experts discussed the Caribbean Energy Security Initiative to spearhead both U.S. and private sector investment in clean-energy for the region.

Book Reviews: Caribbean Renewal: Tackling Fiscal and Debt Challenges, by Charles Amo-Yartey and Therese Turner-Jones;
The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union: Macroeconomics and Financial Systems, by Alfred Schipke, Aliona Cebotari and Nita Thacker

Migrants have long known that crossing the border to the U.S. is dangerous and difficult, but now they face new challenges south of the U.S. border, in Mexico.

There's a lot of romanticism around traveling to Cuba now but there would still be an interest in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and other destinations, suggests AS/COA’s Alana Tummino.

“Day-to-day engagement between the United States and the Caribbean is quite high on security activities. What hasn’t occurred is the high-level political engagement, ” comments COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

IMF’s Adrienne Cheasty explains why a decrease in oil prices is a boon for some Latin American countries and a bane for others.