Caribbean Issues authority topic
Caribbean-focused analysis of security, great-power competition, war, diplomacy, surveillance, energy and external influence.
Editorially reviewed · Updated August 29, 2026
The Caribbean is affected by global conflict through energy, trade, migration, security policy, finance and diplomatic pressure—even when the region is far from the battlefield.
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Essential analysis
A $250,000-a-month Nassau lobbying deal links election politics, a Chinese-backed hospital fight, and a global influencer-for-hire network.
Start with thisEssential analysis
How Digital IDs, Free Travel & Global Finance Threaten Caribbean Sovereignty
Start with thisCompanion podcast
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.
Start with thisCompanion podcast
The Bahamas’ China-financed hospital reveals how urgent infrastructure needs can force small states to balance development finance against geopolitical pressure.
Start with thisThey reach the region through financing choices, trade and energy prices, diplomatic pressure, migration policy, security cooperation, digital infrastructure and access to external decision-makers. The effects are often experienced as domestic budget, sovereignty and development choices rather than as distant foreign policy.
Evidence: U.S. Department of Justice FARA · Office of the Prime Minister, The Bahamas
A filing can establish a disclosed principal, registrant, date and scope recorded under the applicable law. It does not by itself prove every political motive or alleged consequence; those conclusions require separate evidence and should be labelled as analysis.
Evidence: U.S. Department of Justice FARA · U.S. Department of Justice FARA
Transparent contracts, competing financing options, capable public institutions, regional coordination, published decision criteria and measurable public outcomes improve bargaining power. Sovereignty is strengthened when citizens can inspect both the commitment and the results.
Evidence: Office of the Prime Minister, The Bahamas · U.S. Department of Justice FARA
Regional Security & Global Power
A $250,000-a-month Nassau lobbying deal links election politics, a Chinese-backed hospital fight, and a global influencer-for-hire network.
Read or listenRegional Security & Global Power
How Digital IDs, Free Travel & Global Finance Threaten Caribbean Sovereignty
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 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 listenMigration & Reparatory Justice
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.
Read or listenHistory & Reparatory Justice
An Anglican society owned Barbados sugar estates and collected slavery compensation. Caribbean Issues asks who should control reparations and the assets they create.
Read or listenFinance
How the Church profited from Caribbean slavery-and who should control reparative money, assets and decisions.
Read or listenGeopolitics
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Read or listenEconomics/Business
Why JetBlue's Exit From Antigua Could Be a Warning for the Entire Caribbean
Read or listenGeopolitics
An Al Jazeera correspondent spent a week with two missing Saint Lucian men's families. Then he faced their Prime Minister.
Read or listenGeopolitics
Caribbean Issues reads and reevaluates "The Verdict" of "The Renewal Test" as the 51st Communiqué is now fully published
Read or listenGeopolitics
The Renewal Test · Day Two. Pierre passed the rhetoric test last night? The closed-door retreat today is the real one.
Read or listenRegional Security & Global Power
Saint Lucia opens in seven days. Four crises, one institutional rupture, and a chairmanship theme that has to mean what it says.
Read or listenEducation
Applied Knowledge, Organised People, and the Real Path to Caribbean Power.
Read or listenHealth
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
Read or listenRegional Security & Global Power
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.
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 listenEnergy
Dollar Dominance in the Age of War, Oil & BRICS
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 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
This episode examines The Lobbyist's Paradise - Episode 5 - Everybody's Doing It through a Caribbean-first lens, clarifying the governance caricom consequences and the choices facing the region and its diaspora.
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 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 listenThese sources support the hub's direct answers. Individual investigations maintain their own fuller evidence ledgers.