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Mia Mottley


July 2024

  • Fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados in July 2024.

    Opinion
    ‘Smarter money’ is the key that will unlock the promise of Africa and the Caribbean

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Regions’ vast potential is being blocked by the need for better investments, key partnerships and reforms to global finance

June 2024

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

    The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitments

April 2024

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

    Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

December 2023

  • Mia Mottley with King Charles at Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021.

    Barbados PM says country owed $4.9tn as she makes fresh call for reparations

    Mia Mottley tells London audience that King Charles’s comments about slavery’s impact were welcome

November 2023

  • People cycle past posters for Cop28.

    Who’s who at Cop28: the leaders with the world’s future in their hands

    From fossil fuel chiefs to an outspoken UN secretary general, a look at who will attend the UAE’s climate summit

June 2023

  • Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, and Ajay Banga, the president of the World Bank on stage at the Power our Planet concert in Paris on Thursday.

    Paris finance reforms could untie poor countries’ hands in climate crisis

  • Ecuador says its $1.6bn deal will help pay for Galápagos Islands conservation.

    The age of extinction
    Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?

February 2023

  • Barbados's Prime Minister Mia Mottley.

    Economics viewpoint
    It’s high time to rethink how the World Bank operates

    Many believe there is little future in trying to tackle problems of the 2020s with institutions created in the 1940s

November 2022

  • Gordon Brown

    Rich nations have promised to pay for the climate crisis – but will they?

    Gordon Brown
  • A home in Corozal, Puerto Rico, ruined by Hurricane Maria, September 2017

    Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis?

  • Mia Mottley has celebrated the addition of 'loss and damage' to the agenda of Cop27

    1:46

    Barbados PM hails 'loss and damage' addition to climate agenda at Cop27 – video

  • Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, tells delegates gathered at Cop27 in Egypt that the world lacks the 'simple political will' needed to make a definable difference

    2:27

    'We have the collective capacity to transform,' says Mia Mottley at Cop27 – video

October 2022

  • Alok Sharma attends the IMF and World Bank annual meetings.

    UK joins calls for World Bank reform to focus funding on climate crisis

    Alok Sharma’s intervention puts pressure on Trump-appointed Bank chief who faces calls to resign

March 2022

  • Fadzayi Mahere

    Opinion
    Women need to see themselves in politics. It’s the only way change will come to Zimbabwe

    Fadzayi Mahere
    As a young woman in politics I’ve experienced prejudice – audiences ask about my marital status instead of my policies. But we must continue to step up for the next generation

January 2022

  • Mia Mottley addresses the crowd during the ceremony to declare Barbados a republic

    Opinion
    Female leadership is good for the world. Just look at Barbados

    Mandeep Rai
  • Mia Mottley casts her vote in St Michael, Barbados.

    Barbados PM Mia Mottley who broke with Queen wins landslide second term

December 2021

  • Mia Mottley speaking at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.

    Opinion
    Barbados can be a beacon for the region – if it avoids some of its neighbours’ mistakes

    Kenneth Mohammed
    The Caribbean’s newest republic must avoid the corruption that has hampered Trinidad and Tobago and use its presidency to ensure good governance
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