A Central American strongman who jailed his way to a "gang-free" El Salvador has now sent his special forces into Port-au-Prince's badlands, with a warning the gangs have never heard before — and Jamaican troops are in the same theatre. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 25, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown | Nayib Bukele has brought his war to Haiti. A week after four Salvadoran soldiers disappeared in a hail ...

In an open letter to every government on earth, political rivals from Barbados to Belize set aside old quarrels to urge a yes vote at the UN on Wednesday — and warn that Washington's fuel blockade has turned a Cold War relic into a weapon of starvation. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 24, 2026 |Calvin G Brown| — Eleven former Caribbean leaders who spent their careers on opposite sides of the r...

Five days after the Prime Minister and his Tourism Minister dined at The Plaza in New York, Jamaica House froze all official overseas travel until March. Two days after that, Edmund Bartlett boarded a flight to Toronto. He is almost certainly within the rules. The problem is that nobody can see them. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 23, 2026 | Calvin G Brown  — Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett ...

Leaked terms of the “biggest oil deal in world history” show Washington taking first claim on Venezuela’s crude for half a century, through a Caribbean company whose investors need never be named. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, OCTOBER 23, 2026  |Calvin G Brown | — Donald Trump announced it the way he announces most things: in capital letters, on a Friday night. The United States, he wrote on so...

As Hurricane Melissa knocked a third of Jamaica's hotel rooms offline, Jamaicans abroad sent home US$3.12 billion in a single fiscal year — closing the gap on tourism and raising a hard question for a country that still treats its overseas citizens as an afterthought. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 23, 2026 | CALVIN G. BROWN | BUSINESS | When Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica in late ...

The Opposition, small business and consumer advocates want the regulator to reject the National Water Commission’s bid outright. Commerce, tourism and young entrepreneurs want hard answers first. The Government insists decades of under-investment leave it no choice. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — The National Water Commission (NWC) wants Jamaicans to pay 51 per cent more for water. A growing front of pol...