Caribbean Issues authority topic
Caribbean-first analysis of investment, inflation, finance, trade, energy, food, banking, ownership, community wealth and economic sovereignty.
Editorially reviewed · Updated September 1, 2026
Caribbean economic sovereignty requires investment that is commercially credible and leaves more ownership, productive capacity, resilience, skills and value in the region. Strategic sectors include renewable energy, food systems, logistics, digital enterprise, the blue economy and resilient infrastructure, but every project still requires jurisdiction- and project-level verification.
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Begin with the central investigation, then continue into its companion reporting and audio.
Essential analysis
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.
Start with thisEssential analysis
A 15-member CARICOM scorecard examines the policies, data, communication, investment pathways and accountability needed for diaspora engagement.
Start with thisRegional evidence identifies renewable energy, resilient infrastructure, sustainable agriculture and food systems, logistics, digital transformation, the blue economy, circular-economy activity, creative industries and locally connected tourism as sectors with productive potential. A promising sector is not proof that a particular offer is lawful, financed or suitable.
Evidence: OECD and IDB · Caribbean Export
Verify the legal entity and regulator independently, identify the exact asset and rights being purchased, inspect financial and material project records, test permits, land, climate, currency and liquidity exposure, document governance rights and obtain independent professional advice before transferring money.
Evidence: OECD and IDB · CARICOM
No. The CSME supports movement of capital and business establishment among participating members, but national company, tax, securities, land, licensing and sector rules remain relevant, and CARICOM members do not all participate in the same way.
Evidence: CARICOM
Caribbean Economy
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.
Read or listenCaribbean Diaspora
A 15-member CARICOM scorecard examines the policies, data, communication, investment pathways and accountability needed for diaspora engagement.
Read or listenCaribbean Economy
How the 2026 oil shock reached Caribbean power bills and what governments can do to keep food, electricity and emergency payments available.
Read or listenTourism, Housing and Economic Development
Who can afford to live where the Caribbean works? Explore wages, housing costs and tourism commitments in Cayman, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.
Read or listenClimate, Infrastructure and Economic Power
How El Niño, tourism and unreliable supply shape Caribbean water access—and the hidden household costs in Puerto Rico and Saint Lucia.
Read or listenDigital Infrastructure & Telecommunications
A Caribbean Issues investigation tests 0Wire Communications’ Eastern Caribbean telecom promise against licensing records, company filings, financing disclosures and verifiable network milestones.
Read or listenCaribbean Economy
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.
Read or listenFinance
How the Church profited from Caribbean slavery-and who should control reparative money, assets and decisions.
Read or listenEconomy
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.
Read or listenEconomics/Business
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.
Read or listenEducation
How Caribbean Education Manufactures Workers for Other People's Economies
Read or listenEconomics/Business
Why JetBlue's Exit From Antigua Could Be a Warning for the Entire Caribbean
Read or listenFinance
The Quiet Banking Squeeze Strangling the Caribbean
Read or listenEnergy
Guyana's accountability collapse and the watchdog press that died before it could tell you
Read or listenEnvironment
Building a sovereignty-rooted, communally-anchored model of development that neither capitalism nor socialism has delivered.
Read or listenEnergy
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.
Read or listenEducation
The latest English-speaking Caribbean nation to legislate a 15% VAT on digital services
Read or listenEnergy
The Caribbean at the Edge of a New World Order
Read or listenThe Lobbyist's Paradise
CJ Pearson’s appointment shows how viral visibility and partisan access can be converted into a paid foreign-influence role, raising questions about what Caribbean governments receive for public money.
Read or listenThe Lobbyist's Paradise
The Bahamas is paying Roger Stone for proximity, pressure and access rather than Caribbean policy expertise, accepting a substantial financial and reputational cost.
Read or listenThe Lobbyist's Paradise
The Bahamas’ China-financed hospital reveals how urgent infrastructure needs can force small states to balance development finance against geopolitical pressure.
Read or listenThe Lobbyist's Paradise
The Bahamas’ lobbying contract functions as political insurance: public money buys access to Trump-aligned influence while the country navigates pressure over China and an election.
Read or listenPodcast
Tourism becomes structurally unequal when Caribbean workers provide the service but foreign firms retain ownership, bargaining power and much of the value created.
Read or listenPodcast
Caribbean tourism can support prosperity only if the region reduces leakage, strengthens local ownership and reconnects visitor demand with domestic production.
Read or listenPodcast
Caribbean education still rewards compliance and recall more than ownership and problem-solving, leaving students less prepared to build enterprises or adapt to AI-driven change.
Read or listenPodcast
Dependence on foreign airlines leaves Caribbean economies exposed to route decisions made elsewhere; collective regional bargaining and stronger intra-Caribbean links would reduce that risk.
Read or listenThese sources support the hub's direct answers. Individual investigations maintain their own fuller evidence ledgers.