This was a hot week the world over:
- US negotiators visited Russia and Ukraine to try to negotiate peace, but instead both nations indicated there was no near end in sight to the four-year-old war
- US President Donald trump demanded that Europe pay for US $200 Billion worth of military equipment supplied to Ukraine by the Biden administration
- China’s President visited Kyrgyzstan and Egypt following a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in advance of his upcoming visit to the USA
- Japan, Ukraine and Pakistan complained about the colour-codes used in the new World Map approved by the United Nations (UN) last week
- King Charles issued an official letter saying Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are ‘not working royals’
- Israel continued using US-supplied bombs to continue killing civilians – including women and children – in Gaza and Lebanon
- Rescue teams in Nepal miraculously found and saved two people holed-up in blocked caves for nine days — and later rescued a Chinese who’d spent ten days
- International crude oil prices topped US $100
- The tit-for-tat confrontation between the US and Iran resumed with greater force, with President Trump saying he’ll rename the Strait of Hormuz to ‘Trump Strait’
- The UK, France, Canada and nine other nations cut trade with Israeli Settlers on the West Bank of Palestine
- The President of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen visited Greenland and offered US $232 million to help resist US threats to ‘acquire’ the Danish-controlled territory
- Argentina announced sanctions against companies planning to starting to drill for oil off the Malvinas Islands
- Fighting resumed between Saudi-backed ‘government’ and Yemen’s Ansarullah Houthis
- Pakistan said the tripartite alliance between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye can be activated in light of Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities
- The fighting raged on between rival narco-trafficking gangs in the Sinaloa province of Mexico
- Xenophobic demonstrations continued in South Africa against uncocumented migrants and similar actions also started in Nairobi, Kenya
- Under popular pressure with his ratings falling like never before ahead of November’s mid-term elections, President Trump offered US $5,000 to every American if they voted for his Republican Party to retain its hold on both houses of the US congress
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to support recently-elected ultra-right governments
- Canada announced equal 50% tariff levels on US goods entering the country in the latest tit-for-tat response to an earlier imposition by President Trump
- An Amazon cargo plane killed five people and injured two as it careened into a van off a Miami runway
- Four deportees from the US refused to get off a plane in Liberia and were sent to Equatorial Guinea
- Calls rang loud across Europe as exan results revealed falls in child literacy
- An official report indicated that Sr Richard Branson’s wife’s ceath was linked to lack of medication at a private hospital
- Jamaica lodged a petition in the UK calling on King Charles to have the Privy Council act on an 1833 law that banned slavery, while the Labour Government doubled-down on its stated refusal to pay Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide in the Caribbean
- A Jamaican mother was sentenced to three months in prison for failing to report her daughter’s sexual abuse by her husband
- The Jamaica government welcomed a UK Pricy Council decision to scrap visa fees for Commonwealth citizens
- A former election candidate in St. Kitts and Nevis was sentenced to 12 years and six months in jail and five years for rape
- Conditions continued worsening in Cuba ahead of the upcoming annual UN vote on the US embargoes and sanctions of the past 63 years, but Havana insisted it will not negotiate with the US despite its latest ‘genocidal’ naval blockade and new US sanctions
- Venezuela signed an oil agreement with the US to allow American companies to drill in 17 wells located in one-fifth of the country’s vast reserves
- The Vincentian government came under pressure after the Kingstown local government body removed vendors from the city’s sidewalks
- Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar called on schools to send disruptive students back home during the current school year
- Antigua & Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Brown stood firm on his earlier statements criticizing judges he accused of being lenient on criminals found guilty in courts
- Former Jamaica Prime Minister P.J. Patterson called for deeper cooperation between Africa and the Caribbean in Education and Technology in today’s AI-driven world
Meanwhile, in Saint Lucia:
- The first batch of six refugee applicants rejected by the US arrived in Saint Lucia, with Foreign Affairs Minister Alva Baptiste indicating all wish to return home and not stay
- The island’s unemployment rate plummeted to 10.1% in the Second Quarter of 2026
- The Commissioners for the Inquiry into the July 2026 Anse Cochon maritime disaster were appointed
- And on Tuesday, September 8, Saint Lucia’s latest online news platform, sascaonline.com was launched to coincide with International Journalists Day (IJD) with an impressive ceremony at the Finance Administrative Complex
Yes, it was yet-another hot week the world over, but in many countries only domestic matters mattered, with some in Saint Lucia more interested in the fate of a cabinet Minister on prescribed leave, while as-many were worried that the island was prepared to give third-country treatment to non-criminal asylum seekers rejected by the USA.
And most journalists continued along their daily chores on International Journalists Day last Tuesday, unaware of when and why the date has been observed for more than five decades, instead wondering why it differed from World Press Freedom Day, which pays more attention to European and American press matters.
But while many everywhere focus only on domestic issues, climate change continues offering worsening proof that rich nations must start doing more to protect Humankind against their excesses while continuing to refuse to pay for the damage their carbon emissions cause to poor and developing nations, while the world continues turning at the same speed, but in different ways.