Ghana's president has offered CARICOM a place inside Africa's free trade area. A logistics blueprint built for precisely this moment was laid before the People's National Party before the last election — and quietly shelved.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 9, 2026 - When President John Dramani Mahama stood beside Andrew Holness in Kingston on 3 August and pledged to campaign for Caribbean entry into the African Continental Free Trade Area once he assumes the African Union chairmanship, the Jamaican Prime Minister reached for the obvious asset.

