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When world leaders gathered in Antalya for the leaders' segment of COP31, only one G7 head of government made the journey: Britain's Prime Minister, Andy Burnham. For the Caribbean, the question is what Britain brought with it, and whether its words will be matched by deeds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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