Ten former heads of government unite in unprecedented warning against creeping militarization of regional waters

When ten former Caribbean prime ministers speak with one voice, the hemisphere should listen. In an extraordinary joint statement released this week, leaders who once steered nations from Antigua to Jamaica have broken their customary post-office silence to issue a stark warning: the Caribbean's hard-won status as a "Zone of Peace" is under threat from an escalating military presence that risks dragging the region into conflicts "not of our making."