A single name on a sanctions list, published at the height of Guyana's tabulation crisis, has cost a former government minister G$5 million and an apology he must print himself. GEORGETOWN, Guyana September 18, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown| It took one line in a newspaper column to do the damage, and six years to undo it.  A 2020 column naming the broadcaster among those who rigged the elections c...

The PNP has given Jamaicans overseas a region, a chair and six zones. What it has not given them — what no Jamaican government has given them — is a vote. Kingston, Jamaica — 17 September 2026 - The People's National Party announced on Thursday that its Diaspora Region has elected its first slate of officers, completing a structure that exists nowhere in Jamaican electoral law: a region of a poli...

MONTEGO BAY,  Jamaica, September 17, 2026 - by O Dave Allen | In remarks circulated by GB News, broadcaster and royal commentator and apologist Rafe Heydel-Mankoo dismissed Jamaica’s reparations claim as an “avaricious cash grab” and accused the country of “exploiting naive Western guilt.” ...

CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations opens in Barbados — the first since the United Nations named chattel enslavement “the gravest crime against humanity.” ST PHILIP, Barbados,  September 17, 2026 | CALVIN G. BROWN | REGIONAL — There is a quiet irony in the choice of venue. When the Third CARICOM Regional Conference on Reparations opens this evening at the Wyndham Grand Sam Lord’s Cast...

Jamaica and Washington have settled the operating procedures for moving third-country nationals through the island. Jamaicans are being asked to take the rest on faith. MONTEGO BAY,  Jamaica , Sept 16, 2026 - The Government is pressing ahead with its agreement to move third-country nationals from the United States through Jamaica. The Opposition says Jamaicans should be allowed to read it fi...

After a decade without a vote, Haiti finally has an election date. The CARICOM Eminent Persons Group has just returned with a sobering message: the machinery meant to deliver it is grinding, and the date itself may not hold. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Calvin G Brown | September 15, 2026 - Haiti has a date with democracy. The question now being asked, politely but unmistakably, by the Caribbean’s own e...