Barbados News – Caribbean Life

Caribbean Community Secretary-General Carla Barnett said 2025 was one of the most difficult years for the Caribbean, citing climate disasters and geopolitical tensions.

Antigua

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew.

Antigua

CARICOM to send aid to Cuba amid simmering crisis

By Bert Wilkinson

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's 80th session on Sept. 26, 2025.

Barbados

Trinidad and Barbados spar over businessman’s abduction

By Bert Wilkinson

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Antigua

Rubio visit sets stage for tense CARICOM talks

By Bert Wilkinson

A driver fills up his tank at a gas station with gasoline as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announces his government will roll out a plan in the next week to confront fuel shortages as the U.S. moves to block the supply of oil, in Havana, Cuba Feb. 5, 2026.

Barbados

Help Cuba now

By Bert Wilkinson

Mia Amor Mottley speaks onstage at the TIME100 Summit 2022 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on June 7, 2022 in New York City.

Barbados

BLP secures unprecedented hat-trick win

By Bert Wilkinson

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

Bahamas

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Jackie Summers, founder of Jack from Brooklyn, holds a bottle of Sorel Liqueur, a hibiscus-based spirit inspired by traditional Caribbean sorrel and now the most awarded American-made liqueur.

Barbados

Jackie Summers bottles Caribbean heritage with Sorel Liqueur, America’s most awarded spirits

By Tracey Khan

Philip Joseph Pierre, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Development and Youth Economy of Saint Lucia, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's 78th session.

Antigua

U.S. orders St. Lucia to stop sending students to Cuba

By Bert Wilkinson

Barbados' Prime Minister, Mia Mottley.

Barbados

Barbados political storm over voter rolls

By Bert Wilkinson

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

Bahamas

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados speaks at the Global Renewables Summit, co-hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Global Renewables Alliance on September 24, 2024 in New York City.

Antigua

Mottley calls snap elections as opposition fractures

By Bert Wilkinson

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew.

Antigua

More visa suspensions for CARICOM nations

By Bert Wilkinson

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds.

Antigua

Barbados under pressure

By Bert Wilkinson

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar replies to the media after being asked about the presence of U.S. military in the southern Caribbean, at the Red House, parliamentary building, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 12, 2025.

Bahamas

Caribbean governments fight illegal gun trafficking network

By Bert Wilkinson

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds.

Barbados

Barbados upset with UK for negative travel advisory

By Bert Wilkinson

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