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2026
The Caribbean’s Bill for Global Shocks
How the 2026 oil shock reached Caribbean power bills and what governments can do to keep food, electricity and emergency payments available.
939 People: What CARICOM’s Free Movement Numbers Really Show
CARICOM reports 939 people processed, but its country figures add to 1,076. We examine the discrepancy, workers’ outcomes and the next integration test.
After the Rollout: Vaccine Injury, Sudden Death and the Caribbean’s Unanswered Questions
An evidence-led Caribbean investigation of COVID-19 vaccine injury, myocarditis, sudden death, post-mortem clots, cancer signals and treatment.
Who Gets to Live Where the Caribbean Works
Who can afford to live where the Caribbean works? Explore wages, housing costs and tourism commitments in Cayman, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.
Who Gets Water First? El Niño and the Caribbean’s Unequal Water Burden
How El Niño, tourism and unreliable supply shape Caribbean water access—and the hidden household costs in Puerto Rico and Saint Lucia.
Songs from the Headlines: Buy the Digital Album Edition and Join the Listening Party
Buy the Songs from the Headlines Digital Album Edition, explore the eight articles behind its songs and join the October 2 YouTube album launch listening party.
Baptized and Branded: Who Controls the Repair?
How the Church profited from Caribbean slavery-and who should control reparative money, assets and decisions.
Baptized and Branded: How the Church Profited from Caribbean Slavery—and Who Should Control the Repair
An Anglican society owned Barbados sugar estates and collected slavery compensation. Caribbean Issues asks who should control reparations and the assets they create.
The 25×25 Reckoning: Why Caribbean Food Bills Remain High—and What Must Change Before the Next Drought
CARICOM’s nominal food-import total rose sharply between 2020 and 2024, but missing methodology prevents a defensible final verdict on the original 25×25 target.
Caribbean Investment Opportunities
A Caribbean-first guide to investment opportunities in renewable energy, food systems, logistics, digital enterprise and the blue economy, with a practical due-diligence framework for regional and diaspora investors.
The 0Wire Gambit: A New Caribbean Network—or Another Telecom Promise?
A Caribbean Issues investigation tests 0Wire Communications’ Eastern Caribbean telecom promise against licensing records, company filings, financing disclosures and verifiable network milestones.
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The Caribbean Diaspora Data Gap
A 15-member CARICOM scorecard examines the policies, data, communication, investment pathways and accountability needed for diaspora engagement.
Reparations for the Dead, Deportation for the Living
Why did the United States resume deportations to Haiti while warning Americans not to travel there? Caribbean Issues examines TPS, regional deportation agreements and CARICOM’s response.
The Lobbyist's Paradise: Inside The Bahamas' $1.25 Million Bet on Trump World
A $250,000-a-month Nassau lobbying deal links election politics, a Chinese-backed hospital fight, and a global influencer-for-hire network.
PAVED OVER
How Grenada's Design-Build-Finance-Maintain model sidelined local contractors - and handed the nation's roads to three foreign firms with troubled track records.
From Provision Grounds to Poolside: Has Tourism Turned the Caribbean into a Region of Servants?
An investigation into tourism leakage, wage data, and the collapse of Caribbean agriculture - and why the real divide isn't servant vs. farmer, but who owns what gets built.
Built to Obey, Not to Build
How Caribbean Education Manufactures Workers for Other People's Economies
THE QUIET AIRLIFT
Why JetBlue's Exit From Antigua Could Be a Warning for the Entire Caribbean
“I Can Name Their Children” ... Turn off his mic!
An Al Jazeera correspondent spent a week with two missing Saint Lucian men's families. Then he faced their Prime Minister.
THE VERDICT — UPDATED
Caribbean Issues reads and reevaluates "The Verdict" of "The Renewal Test" as the 51st Communiqué is now fully published
The Verdict
The Renewal Test · Final Judgment. One concrete outcome. Four deferred, softened, or silent. Pierre has five months left to prove the word means something.
The Room Where It Happens
The Renewal Test · Day Two. Pierre passed the rhetoric test last night? The closed-door retreat today is the real one.
The Renewal Test
Saint Lucia opens in seven days. Four crises, one institutional rupture, and a chairmanship theme that has to mean what it says.
Knowledge Is Not Power: Applied Knowledge Is The Real Revolution
Applied Knowledge, Organised People, and the Real Path to Caribbean Power.
De-Risked
The Quiet Banking Squeeze Strangling the Caribbean
The Salt Wars: What the Science Actually Shows — and Why the Caribbean Kitchen Was Not the Villain It Was Made Into
For 50 years we were told, we eat too much salt. The largest cardiovascular study ever conducted suggests the guidelines may be wrong & the real problem with the modern diet is something else entirely
The $19.6 Billion Secret
Guyana's accountability collapse and the watchdog press that died before it could tell you
The Story of Us: Bermuda, CARICOM, and the Identity Vote
Tonight at Penno's Wharf in St. George's, Bermuda continues a consultation that is not really about membership. It is about who Bermuda has already decided to be.
Maroon Economics - The Caribbean's Third Path
Building a sovereignty-rooted, communally-anchored model of development that neither capitalism nor socialism has delivered.
Dead Rats & Ghost Ships
Is Hantavirus the World's Next Pandemic - or the Next Pretext?
After the Pandemic, the Power Cut
An "energy lockdown" is already encircling the Caribbean - and quietly, ministers across the region are preparing for the kind of squeeze most citizens have not yet been told to expect.
Grenada Joins Caribbean Digital VAT Wave
The latest English-speaking Caribbean nation to legislate a 15% VAT on digital services
When the World Catches Fire
The Caribbean at the Edge of a New World Order
The Big Push or a Small Step?
Is the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's 2026-2031 strategic plan the economic breakthrough the region has waited decades for - or a necessary but insufficient framework dressed in bold language?
After The Siege
Dollar Dominance in the Age of War, Oil & BRICS
The War Behind the War
Energy, Empire, and the Scramble for a New World Order
SURVIVE. ADAPT. THRIVE.
Beating Inflation & Building Resilience
The Hidden Story of Inflation
Why Prices Stay High in the Caribbean, the United States, and Across the World
SUNSET IN THE CRESCENT
How Iran, China, and Russia Are Expelling the United States from the Middle East- and Why the Caribbean Is Now the New Front Line
THE ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL POWER
Elite Networks, Hegemonic Strategy, and the Global South
Caribbean on the Brink: 50th Summit Ignites Fears of CARICOM’s Imminent Collapse
Echoes of 1962 Federation Disaster Grow Louder
7 Caribbean Health Myths the Science Got Wrong
And What The Elders Always Knew
THE GREEN EMPIRE
How Western Powers Weaponized Climate Change to Execute the Greatest Resource Heist in Modern History
Gunboats, Barrels, and the Recolonization of the Americas
From Caracas to Havana to Managua: How the Collapse of the Petro-Dollar Is Reviving 19th-Century Empire in the Western Hemisphere
2025
The Silent Fracture: How U.S. Political Networks Are Splitting the Caribbean
The Hidden Ideological War Crippling CARICOM
Biometric Chains in Paradise
How Digital IDs, Free Travel & Global Finance Threaten Caribbean Sovereignty
The Hidden Architecture of Control
How Power, Policy, and Perception Shape a Nation's Fate
The Caribbean, a Theater of Conflict
From Imperial Battleground to Modern Proxy War
Control Through Chaos
The Shadow Armies: From Secret Wars to the Global Playbook of Covert Power
BlackRock's Global Empire
The Invisible Hand Reshaping Finance, Energy, and Sovereignty
Trade Wars, Currency Wars, and the Rise and Fall of Empires
Can Caribbean nations navigate the shifting terrain?
The Caribbean Blueprint
For Natural Health and Healing
Beyond Control: Reimagining Society Through Nature's Wisdom
How Ancient Patterns Could Forge a Radical New Future and Why the Caribbean is Positioned to Lead the Transition
Dollar Dominance Under Siege
How China's Digital Yuan, India's Pragmatism, and BRICS' Ascent Are Reshaping Global Finance-And What the Caribbean Must Do to Survive
America First, World Last?
The Digital Disruption and Global Fallout of U.S. Economic Policies
The Global Dollar Shift
How Investors and Caribbean Nations Can Navigate Trump's Devaluation Strategy
The Death of Traditional Banking: The Wave of Digital Currency
What Trump's Free Banking 2.0 Means for the Caribbean
Energy Dominoes
Energy Dominoes: How America's Nuclear U-Turn Empowered Rivals, Stranded the Caribbean, and Sparked a Global Power War
A Price Too High: Martinique’s Protest Against France’s Exploitative Policies
The Fight for Economic Justice, Cultural Survival and Autonomy
2024
The Hidden Architects of Global Finance: BIS, CBDC's, and Caribbean Dollar Dynamics
Unveiling the Bank That Runs the World, the Rise of Digital Currencies, and the Caribbean's Economic Resilience in the Face of Dollar Decline
Democracy or Oligarchic Control
From American Influence to Caribbean Consequences
Choose Change Wisely
Be Careful what you wish for Grenada and the wider Caribbean!
The Return of a Two-Tier Society
The Hollowing Out of the Middle Class and the Impact of Global Economic Shifts on the Caribbean
Nationalism vs. Globalism: The Battle for Power, Control, and Money
Counting the Cost in the Caribbean and Globally
Caribbean Economic Democracy
A Pathway to Sustainable Prosperity for Caribbean Nations?
National Insurance Schemes in the Caribbean: A Web of Injustice
Governments Exploitation of National Insurance Schemes
2023
Geopolitical Chess: Guyana's Role in U.S.-Venezuela Rivalry
Unraveling Complex Moves in the U.S.-Venezuela Rivalry, CARICOM's Dilemma, and Navigating Guyana's Oil Wealth
Caribbean Political Complexity
International and Caribbean Political Ideological Divides and Affiliations
Battle for the Essequibo Region
A Historical Analysis of Venezuela and Guyana's Contentious Territorial Claims
From Gaza to the Caribbean
Gaza-Israel Conflict, Global Ripple Effect and Impact on the Caribbean
Striking the Balance: Optimizing the Public Service Wage Bill
Analysing the Public Service Wage Bill in Caribbean Countries
Public Private Partnerships - Blessing or Curse?
Exploring the good and bad of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the Caribbean
Population Growth Unlocks Economic Potential
Harnessing Demographic Shifts for Prosperity and Innovation in the Caribbean
The Africa-Caribbean Synergy
Advancing Economic Sovereignty of Africa and the Caribbean
Abundance over Scarcity
Embracing Abundance: Breaking Free from the Scarcity Mentality
Vying for Global Dominance
One to rule them all or decentralized rule?
Global Gender Agenda
Respecting Diversity and Autonomy or pushing forced compliance?
The Illusion of Progress
Unpacking the New Global Financial Pact
Hitting a BRICS Wall
The BRICS alliance's growing influence and its potential to reshape the global economic landscape
Unveiling the Banking System Ponzi Scheme
A Financial Reset Strategy, it's impact on Caribbean Countries & Bitcoin as an Alternative.
Geopolitical Implications of US Policy Influence on Caribbean Nations
USA and Jamaica Diplomatic Tensions a Manifestation
Caribbean Countries, the Struggle against Exploitation & Stagnation
Visionary Leadership, Determination & Empowerment through Unity
Reading between the lines of VP Harris’s visit to the Caribbean
Will CARICOM be influenced by the US to invade Haiti?
The Changing World Economy: Caribbean Economies need to adapt
Adapting to a rise and fall of economic blocs
US Debt and the loss of Dollar Primacy: Impact on Caribbean Economies
Recognize the shifting dynamics and prepare for the long-term changes.
Singapore's Economic Success: Lessons for Caribbean Countries
Overcome size constraints by fostering regional cooperation and integration.
The use of technology in Agriculture — the road to sustainability in the Caribbean
Food security through technology
Do as I say and not as I do!
Natural resources needed for economic development and industrialization
Migration of Foreign Banks from the Caribbean region - what can be done?
The Caribbean region has been experiencing a trend of foreign banks leaving the area, leading to concerns about de-risking and the impact on regional and national banks.
Universal Currency, a bipolar world — will ECCB have to choose?
Reserve Currency change
How can the use of Bitcoin benefit small island developing countries in the Caribbean?
Bitcoin for developing countries
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