DIASPORA | Nowhere to Hide: Inside the Quota-Driven Immigration Dragnet Engulfing Caribbean Communities in America
As the Trump regime pushes ICE toward 3,000 arrests per day, the Caribbean diaspora finds itself caught in an enforcement machine that has abolished every safe space — from churches and hospitals to school gates and asylum interviews
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JAMAICA | 'The Party I Joined Is No Longer the Party I See Today': Councillor Quits JLP, Eyes PNP
May Pen North's Tanyalee Williams quits the Jamaica Labour Party, blames a broken relationship with her MP, and seeks a home in the PNP — a move that would break an 11–11 deadlock in the Clarendon Municipal Corporation.
MAY PEN, Jamaica, October 9, 2026 - In Clarendon this week, a single signature may prove to be worth an entire municipal corporation.
Councillor Tanyalee Williams, who has repres...
GUYANA | Social Cohesion Is Essential to Guyana’s Survival and Development
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 9, 2026 - President Irfaan Ali has spoken of Guyana experiencing a movement of people that could bring the country’s population to about three million by 2030. That statement must place migration squarely within the national conversation.
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DIASPORA | “No Turning Back”: P.J. Patterson Tells Accra That Global Africa Must Turn Kinship Into Power
Former Jamaican Prime Minister calls for a formidable Global Africa Coalition as the post-war order fractures and “power increasingly displaces law”
ACCRA, Ghana, October 8, 2026 — Former Jamaican Prime Minister the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson has issued a blunt challenge to Africa, the Caribbean and the worldwide African diaspora: stop leaning on goodwill and start organising power, or watch others...
JAMAICA | “Leadership Is Action”: Hopewell’s Dr Farin Williams Takes the Helm of JCI Jamaica — and a Hard Test
The integrated medicine specialist was elected National President for 2027 on a pledge to train leaders, mobilise communities and build entrepreneurs. The slogans are in place. Now comes the part slogans cannot do.
LUCEA, Hanover - October 8, 2026 - Jamaica has never suffered from a shortage of leadership speeches. It suffers from a shortage of leadership. Dr Farin Williams, it seems, knows...
JAMAICA | From Sandy Bay to the World Stage: Hanover Sprinter Ackeem Blake Leads JCI Jamaica’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons for 2026
NCB Foundation-sponsored TOYP Awards crown the centrepiece of a 13th National Convention and Homecoming that also marks 13 years of JCI Jamaica as a national organisation in its own right
LUCEA, Hanover, Jamaica — October 7, 2026 — A world-record sprinter, an AI entrepreneur teaching machines to understand Patois, an economist who has tutored more than 5,000 students and a publisher who has put m...
AFRICA HEALTH | From Henrietta Lacks to Lusaka: The Long Fight Over Who Owns Black Biology
Pathogen samples, genetic codes and patient records: the hidden currency of America’s new health deals. Zambia refused to pay it, and still got its money. The Caribbean should take note.
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, October 6, 2026, Calvin G Brown | - Strip away the diplomatic language and the Trump regime’s “America First” health deals come down to a simple trade: American money for African biology. Th...
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CARIBBEAN | Seventy Strikes, 235 Seafarers Dead, Zero Proof: CARICOM’s Silence Is Now Complicity
Four more people were killed in Caribbean waters on Sunday. Washington will not say where, will not say who, and will not show what. Our fisherfolk – and our governments – deserve better than a press ...
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JAMAICA | Democratic Erosion: Why Peter Espeut's Warning About JLP's Third Term Should Alarm Every Jamaican
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