Rough seas and safe seats: Caribbean elections

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<p>The outcome of Jamaica’s election isn’t much in doubt. What’s uncertain is how <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/08/22/the-pandemics-indirect-hit-on-the-caribbean?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the wider Caribbean</a> can handle rock-bottom tourism and looming hurricane risks amid the pandemic. North Korea’s leadership at last admitted to the hardships of covid-19; the coming human cost <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/08/29/as-natural-disasters-strike-north-korea-cuts-itself-off?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">could rival</a> that of the famine in the 1990s. And why African countries put out so many <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/08/20/why-african-countries-issue-stamps-celebrating-english-cricketers?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unlikely stamps</a>.</p><p>For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>