After months of country-by-country pressure, visa bonds and quiet signings, the Conference of Heads of Government has finally spoken on Third Country Nationals — in four paragraphs of diplomatic language the region’s citizens are unlikely to swallow.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana —By Calvin G. Brown  |  WiredJa  |  Thursday, 9 July 2026 -  The Caribbean Community has finally spoken on the most contentious question confronting the region this year — and it took a closed-door caucus of Heads of Government to produce four paragraphs of the most carefully lawyered language to emerge from the Secretariat in recent memory.