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CARICOM | Rubio's War Drums Over Cuba: And CARICOM Stares Into Space

As Washington weaponizes indictments, aircraft carriers, and immigration raids against Havana, the Caribbean's own regional body offers nothing but silence — a dereliction that may carry a catastrophic price

MONTEGO BAY,  Jamaica, May 22, 2026 |Calvin G. Brown | Marco Rubio is not a man who does things quietly. The United States Secretary of State has, in the span of a few weeks, orchestrated a Raul Castro indictment, deployed a U.S. aircraft carrier to the Southern Caribbean, and personally revoked the permanent residency of a Cuban national to facilitate her arrest by federal immigration agents in Miami. He has done all of this with the methodical intensity of a man who has decided that this time, Cuba will break.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel
JAMAICAS OP ED | CCJ: Melissa Was Not Just an Ill Wind

JAMAICAS OP ED | CCJ: Melissa Was Not Just an Ill Wind

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 10, 2026 -  Whatever became of the officially-proposed pre-Hurricane Melissa expectant Vale Royal talks on constitutional reform?  In a recent interchange with a senior parliamentarian on that...
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