A Status of Forces Agreement, a statute from 1975, and not a single vote in Gordon House. The question was never whether Jamaica should cooperate with the United States. It is on whose terms — and by whose authority.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 21, 2026 -Calvin G Brown - The announcement arrived on Thursday in about two hundred words of the flattest prose the diplomatic trade can manufacture. The Governments of the United States and Jamaica have signed a Status of Forces Agreement. It builds on an already strong bilateral security partnership. Jamaica joins more than 120 partner nations. Peace through strength.
