Dutch-speaking Suriname is the smallest independent nation in South America. Rainforests cover 94% of its area, and its biodiversity is
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Prominent scientist, diplomat, conservationist, artist and poet Joseph Edsel Edmunds, a former ambassador of St. Lucia to the United States, died July 21 at the age of 89.
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, has been fired in connection with a passport bribery scandal.
The Cayman Islands, a wealthy British territory in the Caribbean, has opened a Washington office to protect its unique financial tax status.
The top envoy of one of the world’s smallest countries lashed out at its most powerful—barely a month before a
St. Kitts & Nevis—barely twice the size of the District of Columbia—is the smallest independent sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere. Representing this tiny twin-island Caribbean federation in Washington is Ambassador Thelma Phillip-Browne, a doctor by profession who’s also an evangelist preacher and one of her country’s all-time champions in netball.
