Now available on Amazon. River Tales and Environmental Realities, by Donovan Reynolds.
Walk into almost any Caribbean university graduation and you will notice something remarkable: the women outnumber the men. Look across the region and you will find women who have served as prime ministers, governors-general, chief justices and central bank governors. By many measures, Caribbean women are among the most educated and accomplished in the developing world.
Ten years ago, Guyana was one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Today it is among the fastest-growing economies in the world, pumping close to a million barrels of oil a day from beneath the Atlantic. The question for the rest of the Caribbean is simple, and it matters enormously: will this wealth stay in one country, or can it help lift the whole region?
For a few hundred thousand dollars, a stranger can become a citizen of a Caribbean nation without ever living there. For the small island states that sell this privilege, the money has paid for hospitals, housing and hurricane recovery. For Europe, it has become a security problem it no longer wants to tolerate. Now the two sides are heading for a confrontation that could decide whether some of the region's smallest economies can balance their books.
When a dancehall deejay asks a question that the Auditor General has already asked, and the Prime Minister answers with a joke about the guest list, something has gone wrong with how Jamaica holds power to account.
Tomorrow, Americans choose a new Congress. The polls point to a Democratic House and a knife-edge Senate. Here is what is at stake, where the battle will be won or lost, and why it matters to all of us in the Caribbean family, wherever we live.
As King Charles tours the Caribbean, the Leader of the Opposition has dismissed the call for a British apology for slavery and cast the Prime Minister as the nation's "chief apologiser". Kingston Mouth believes her case rests on a misreading of the constitution, of the Caribbean's demands, and of history.
When three CARICOM governments stepped back from their usual vote on Cuba at the United Nations this week, some called it a Faustian pact with Washington. I see something different: small states doing what small states must do in a harder world, which is to protect their people's interests without burning any bridges.
Haiti's security crisis, a looming European deadline for citizenship-by-investment programmes and the region's climate stance ahead of COP31 led a busy week for the Caribbean Community. Add a royal tour, a renewed push on reparations and delicate talks with Washington, and it is clear the region's leaders have plenty on their plates as November begins.
Jamaica's decision to abstain, for the first time in more than three decades, on the United Nations resolution condemning the United States embargo against Cuba marks a significant moment in the nation's foreign policy.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva trailed after Brazil's first round, then won the runoff by 4.4 million votes to secure a historic fourth term.
Israel went to the polls on 27 October and, two days later, nobody has won. Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc is the largest, but it sits eight seats short of a majority.
As King Charles arrives in Antigua for the Commonwealth summit, the Caribbean calls it the "reparations CHOGM" and London says no apology and no payment. We argue that Jamaica's petition to the Privy Council has quietly become the region's strongest card, and set out what our leaders should ask for this week.
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