With the launch of REAP in St. Kitts and Nevis, CARICOM signals that food security is no longer an aspiration — it is a survival strategy. The question now is whether governments will match the rhetoric with resources. By Calvin G. Brown - 

BASSATERRE| St. Kitts and Nevis / Turkeyen, Guyana | Wednesday, 18 March 2026 | The Caribbean has long treated agriculture as an afterthought — a romantic attachment to a pre-industrial past rather than the strategic lifeline it has always been. On Tuesday, that began to change, or at least someone at the top said so with conviction.