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Barbados, Belize, Dominica, and St Vincent launch EU-style deal to let citizens work freely across borders

By Peter Schulte / October 2, 2025 / Good News For Humankind

This groundbreaking pact has created a new, flexible labor market across the Caribbean. Citizens of Barbados, Belize, Dominica, and St Vincent can now live and work in any of the four countries without needing complex work permits. This freedom of movement is expected to significantly boost regional economic resilience by addressing labor shortages. The initiative also strengthens social ties and promotes family stability across the participating nations.

Island states win historic climate case in world oceans court

By Peter Schulte / July 21, 2024 / Good news links

Nine small island states have won a historic climate change case at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which ruled that all signatories to a United Nations treaty on marine activities must do more to protect the world’s oceans from climate change. The tribunal found that signatories to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea’s responsibilities to prevent marine pollution extend to greenhouse gas emissions, which harm oceans by altering the earth’s atmosphere.

Saladoid culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela and the Caribbean

By Peter Schulte / July 28, 1002 / Archive of Human Genius

Saladoid culture is a pre-Columbian indigenous culture of territory in present-day Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from 500 B.C.E. to 545 C.E. Concentrated along the lowlands of the Orinoco River, the people migrated by sea to the Lesser Antilles, and then to Puerto Rico.