NEED TO KNOW CANADA The Heat’s On Cherries roasting on trees, crops baking in fields, mussels being boiled alive in the ocean […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI The Plot to Nowhere The alleged conspirators who plotted the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse met repeatedly […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Cats and Dogs The experiences of our cats and dogs are windows into how humans suffered and endured […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA ‘Just Little Savages’ Canadian First Nation leaders found the remains of more than 200 former students – all […]

NEED TO KNOW NICARAGUA No Quarter Nicaraguan intellectual Emilio Álvarez Montalván once described his fellow citizens as “outgoing, imaginative, hard-working, and compassionate” […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD A Taxing Issue At their recent meeting in Britain, leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations accepted […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Borderlines Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei recently blamed the US for attracting migrants seeking a haven from violence and […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Taxing the Air The Canadian Supreme Court this year issued an important decision with worldwide implications when its […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Transformation on the Ballot President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – whose nickname is AMLO – wants to transform […]

NEED TO KNOW CAYMAN ISLANDS The Taxman Cometh The European Union removed the Cayman Islands from its so-called tax haven blacklist late […]

NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AMERICA Losing the Future So many players on Argentina’s powerhouse soccer team River Plate were sick with Covid-19 […]

NEED TO KNOW COLOMBIA Taxes, and Everything At first, they took to the streets to protest against a tax plan they called […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA New Leader, Old Torch It was the end of an era when Raúl Castro resigned as chief of […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Politics and Plague The Canadian military recently deployed to Ontario amid a scary surge of the coronavirus that […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI Problem Child Haitian Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe resigned recently. He served for around a year, wrote Al Jazeera, […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA The Little Engine That Could Even as Cuba remains isolated from the US, it’s poised to become the […]

NEED TO KNOW CHILE Change, Deferred The coronavirus has forced many people to shelve their plans. In Chile, the pandemic is preventing […]

NEED TO KNOW PERU Uncle Porky and the Spoilers Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned three years ago over allegations of bribery […]

NEED TO KNOW CURAÇAO The Ties That Bind The Dutch islands of the Caribbean are working hard to make it easier for […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO ‘Disappearance’: The Noun, The Weapon Mexicans uncover on average two clandestine graves a day. They often belong to […]

NEED TO KNOW EL SALVADOR A New Kind of Ugly It’s possible that El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele came to Washington, DC […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI Eras New and Old One of the poorest countries in the world, Haiti, is embroiled in a new […]