In 1974, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) formed in Guyana as a political compact forged by the Working People’s Vanguard Party, the African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon. The WPA, while best known for the involvement of Pan-African historian and…

In October 2022, a CARICOM Press Brief announced a collaboration between the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) and Digicel founder and chairman, Denis O’Brien. O’Brien pitched a “Repair” program to CRC officials that pledged support from the Irish telecommunications giant for CARICOM’s “call for Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery.” O’Brien…

The year 2023 tallies a half-century since the formalization of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by the founding signatories to the Treaty of Chaguaramas: Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. …

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Counterpunch on 30 October 2015. This May [2015], an ExxonMobil vessel entered the coastal waters of the Essequibo. The arrival of the Deepwater Champion drillship followed the discovery of 700 million barrels of offshore crude and cemented a budding partnership between the energy…

By Ryan Cecil Jobson and Matthew Quest [Editor’s note: First published on September 19, 2020 by the National Workers Union (Trinidad and Tobago), this article provides context on the Guyana oil boom and energy geopolitics in the Western Hemisphere] The latest episode of U.S. imperialist intrigue in the Americas deserves…

On the series finale of the HBO television series Succession, a frantic Kendall Roy — onetime heir to the fictional Waystar Royco media empire — directs his private jet to an unnamed Caribbean destination. …

Where does the soul of Caribbean unity dwell? Today, the pursuit of Caribbean unity is monopolized by statesmen and political elites. But desires for genuine unity persist among the ordinary people of the Caribbean. We, who advocate a genuine Caribbean federation from below, must resist the capture of this desire…

In September, Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Finance Colm Imbert announced an immediate increase in gas prices. Premium and super gasoline each rose by TT$1 per liter; the price of diesel fuel rose by 50 cents. …

Last November, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley formally removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and declared Bimshire — the island known as “Little England” — a republic. The announcement arrived to international fanfare on the fifty-fifth anniversary of independence featuring an appearance by the soon-to-be King, Charles, and…