The Caribbean Community’s foreign ministers met in Paramaribo and canvassed the globe for new partnerships. Yet the island nation that fed our doctors, buried our dead, and shares our sea went unmentioned — while Washington tightens a noose around its neck.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Calvin G. Brown|  May 21, 2026 - Read the closing statement from CARICOM’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations — all of it — and you will find Saudi Arabia. You will find Austria. You will find the United Arab Emirates and Singapore and Japan. You will find Bermuda’s membership application and French Guiana’s bid for associate status.

What you will not find, not in a single sentence, not even in a subordinate clause, is Cuba.