Order, Order: Restoring Dignity to Jamaica's Parliament
Jamaica's Parliament had a difficult week. The way forward is not to choose a side in the shouting, but to protect the institution both sides need.
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Rebuilding the Caribbean Family: Young Migrants from the Diaspora, Africa and South Asia
Our islands are getting older and emptier. Instead of fearing immigration, the Caribbean could invite home its own scattered family: the diaspora's children, our kin across the Atlantic, and the lands of India that sent us our indentured ancestors.
Fourteen to One: Grenada's landslide and the Caribbean's vanishing opposition
Dickon Mitchell's NDC has won 14 of Grenada's 15 seats with 61 per cent of the vote, and the opposition leader has lost her own seat. We congratulate the winners, then ask what happens to scrutiny when a Caribbean parliament is left with a single opposition voice.
Caribbean Week in Review: 30 October – 5 November 2026
A King in the Caribbean, two elections, a new governor in St Thomas and a drought warning for half the region. Here's your week, island by island.
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Grenada at the Ballot Box: Spice, Storms and the Long Shadow of Underdevelopment
Grenadians vote today for all 15 seats in Parliament. Whoever wins inherits a nation whose deepest problems were set long before either party was born.
A Reason to Stay: Can St Vincent Keep Its People?
In August 2024, a young woman from Richland Park, St Vincent, stepped onto the track in Paris and made history. Shafiqua Maloney became the first Vincentian ever to reach an Olympic final. She finished fourth in the world in the women's 800 metres, just outside the medals, breaking her own national record along the way.
The Genuine Link: How St Kitts and Nevis Is Redefining Who Belongs — and Who Pays
St Kitts and Nevis has a population of fewer than 47,000 people. Yet in 2026 this tiny federation is wrestling with a question that big nations struggle to answer: who truly belongs — and who pays for the privilege?
The Blue Wave of 2026: What the US Midterm Election Results Mean for Trump
American voters have handed Democrats control of both the House and the Senate, ending two years of unified Republican government under President Donald Trump. The major networks (CBS, NBC, CNN) and NPR's tally of Associated Press race calls all agree: from January, Congress belongs to the Democrats.
Educated, Enterprising and Still Unequal: Women and Development in the Caribbean
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.
Black Gold for the Whole Region? How Guyana's Oil Could Lift the Caribbean
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?
Passports for Sale: Can the Caribbean Survive Europe's Golden Passport Crackdown?
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.
Weh Di Money Deh? Beenie Man, Hurricane Melissa and Jamaica's Accountability Problem
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.
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