Phone Chomsavanh's release from Eswatini's Matsapha prison closes one chapter of the Trump regime's third-country deportation scheme. For the Caribbean men flown to the same cells, the story is far from over. MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA,  October 5, 2026 - On Sunday, Phone Chomsavanh walked out of the Matsapha Correctional Complex, a maximum-security prison near Mbabane, after more than 14 ...

For generations, a US visa stamp was a passport to prestige across the Caribbean. Under the Trump regime it has become both bribe and bludgeon — and a growing number of travellers, and even Americans themselves, are deciding the price is too high. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 5, 2026 - Calvin G Brown | Stand on Old Hope Road before the sun has cleared the Blue Mountains and you will see it:...

Washington has now sent some 25,000 people to countries that are not their own. For Caribbean families in the United States, the policy is quietly redrawing the meaning of separation — and the region’s own governments have become part of the machinery. CALVIN G. BROWN | INVESTIGATIONS | WIREDJA MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 4, 2026 - Calvin G Brown - Investigations | Roberto Mosquera never got t...

St John's publishes Washington's proposal alongside its own counter-offer: a ceiling of seven transfers a quarter, case-by-case approval, and not a cent from Antiguan taxpayers. ST. JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda, October 3, 2026 |Calvin G. Brown | Caribbean |There is a particular kind of nerve required of a nation of about 100,000 people when the most powerful country on earth comes calling with a r...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, WIREDJA THE EDITOR, Sir: The Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) writes in response to statements made in the House of Representatives by C. Everald Warmington, Member of Parliament for St Catherine South Western, during debate on Jamaica’s petition to His Majesty King Charles III and its referral to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. This is not a quarrel between poli...

Veteran publisher and former Deputy Speaker Lloyd B. Smith, tourism and entertainment stalwart Johnny Gourzong, OD, Donald Daley and Desmond Flowers will be inducted into the Cornwall College Old Boys Association Hall of Fame on October 17, each also receiving a 2026 Men of Might Award. MONTEGO BAY, St James, October 2, 2026 - Calvin G Brown | For 130 years, the boys of the ‘school on the hi...