US Blocks Oil Deal
Port of Spain (Caribbeab Life): Despite lobbying from Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Stuart Young during U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s multi-nation swing through the region last month, the United States has dealt Trinidad’s economy a humongous blow by blocking the country from jointly developing a giant offshore gas field with neighboring Venezuela.
Immigrant advocates condemn court ruling against voting rights for Caribbean immigrants
Caribbean Life March 23, 2025, New York (Caribbean Life): Immigration advocates in New York condemned a New York Court of Appeals ruling against voting rights for Caribbean and other immigrants in New York City municipal elections.
First Caribbean national poised to become head of OAS
Caribbean Life March 9, 2025, Georgetown (Caribbean Life): For the first time since its founding in 1948, the Organization of American States (OAS), a national of the Caribbean Community, is on course to head the hemispheric body thanks to overwhelming support from the region and a slew of other nations.
NYIC warns Trump’s registry will force Caribbean immigrants into the shadows
New York (Caribbean Life): The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization representing more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, has warned that the Trump administration’s Executive Order on national registration will force Caribbean and other immigrants into the shadow.
Anguillan opposition wins election
The Valley (Caribbean Life): Voters in the tiny Eastern Caribbean island of Anguilla on Wednesday, February 26, elected the main opposition Anguilla United Front (AUF) to run national affairs for the next five years, handing the British colony its first female head of government.
Grenada’s PM wants Europe to pay reparations
Saint George (Caribbean Life): As he handed over the chairpersonship of the 15-nation Caribbean Community to Mia Mottley of Barbados, Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told the European Union that it could not avoid making reparation payments for the crimes linked to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
CARICOM must prepare for deportees
Saint John (Caribbean Life): Two senior Caribbean Community diplomats have warned regional governments and nationals to prepare for larger than unusual numbers of deportees in the coming months, given moves by the Donald Trump administration to get rid of thousands of so-called undocumented or illegal immigrants, some of whom will undoubtedly come from the Caribbean.
Haitian president demands reparations from France
Por au Prince (Caribbean Life): Celebrating 221 years of Haitian independence, local authorities used the opportunity in New Year’s Day to remind France that it needs to repay the country billions in reparations for forcing it to make cash payments to France to avoid attempts at recolonization.
Fears of another volcanic eruption in St. Vincent emerge
Kingstown (Caribbean Life): Authorities in the Eastern Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have warned locals to stay away from the La Soufriere Volcanic area as the temperature is on the rise again.
Caribbean: Climate justice pressure
New York (Caribbean Life): Three Caribbean leaders aimed their proverbial ‘pistols’ at the developed world this week, calling for climate change financing and reminding anyone who would listen that the region is one of the smallest polluters on the planet but is still among areas hardest hit by an ever-changing climate.
