Jamaica sits 56th in the world on the Henley Passport Index and third from bottom in CARICOM — behind eight Eastern Caribbean states with a fraction of its population. The number deserves scrutiny. So does the index that produced it. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Sept.9, 2026 - Few countries punch as far above their weight as Jamaica. Two-point-eight million people, a flag recognised on every continent, ...

He trailed by nine points and won anyway. Georgia’s 13th district gambled on a record over a surname. Everton Blair Jr. was not supposed to win. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Sept. 9, 2026 - Five weeks before he was sworn into the United States House of Representatives, he had finished second in a crowded special primary — nearly nine points behind a candidate carrying the only surname Georgia’s 13t...

Jamaica’s petition is lodged and Buckingham Palace has answered. But the Opposition wants the receipts, and the Palace’s own account of the process raises a harder question than any of them: who actually advises the King? KINGSTON, Jamaica — September 8, 2026 - Who travelled to London, what was each person there to do, what did the mission cost the Jamaican taxpayer, and what did it achieve that ...

The petition Jamaica lodged at Buckingham Palace on Monday was never meant to be pressed into the King's hands. Reading it that way misses both the protocol and the point. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Sept. 8, 2026 |Calvin G Brown - Was it a breach of international law to seize African people and carry them by force to Jamaica? Is the United Kingdom under a legal obligation to make reparation to t...

Washington cast the single vote against, and said why: the resolution carried reparations and “cognitive justice” into a question about map projections. That objection deserves to be heard properly before it is answered — and the region’s stake in the answer is larger than these islands look on any projection. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica | Calvin G Brown | Sept. 7, 2026 - On Friday 4 September, the Unit...

For fifty years the Caribbean staffed its hospitals with Cuban doctors and part-financed its health response with American money. In 2026 both arrangements collapsed. Nothing has been built to replace either. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, September 6, 2026 - In February 2026, chairing CARICOM’s 50th Heads of Government Conference in his own capital, Dr Terrance Drew defended Cuban medical cooperation aga...