St Lucia News – Caribbean Life

Mexican-flagged ship ARM Huasteco (MP-01), loaded with humanitarian aid, enters Havana's bay after the island's communist-run government announced increasingly strict rationing measures to confront U.S. efforts to cut off the island’s fuel supply, in Havana, Cuba Feb. 28, 2026.

Bahamas

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

A man protests holding a Haitian flag while Haitian security forces guard the Prime Minister's office and the headquarters of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), as the mandate of the transitional governing council, formed to curb gang violence and pave the way for long-delayed election, is set to end on February 7 with no succession plan in place, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 6, 2026.

Bahamas

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Antigua

Rubio visit sets stage for tense CARICOM talks

By Bert Wilkinson

Lynette Burnley, aunt of Chad Joseph, who family members believe was killed in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, lights a candle at an altar for Joseph in the family home in Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago, Oct. 22, 2025.

St Lucia

Wreckage from U.S. military boat strike washes up near St. Vincent

By Bert Wilkinson

St. Lucia's Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre attends the Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 18, 2023.

St Lucia

Diplomatic Denial: U.S. says it never told St. Lucia to drop Cuban Medical Program

By Bert Wilkinson

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

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Prime Minister of Grenada The Hon. Dickon Mitchell attends the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York Times Square on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York City.

Antigua

Grenada weighs pact to accept non-national deportees

By Bert Wilkinson

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

Bahamas

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Dr. Godwin Friday

Antigua

OECS wants to talk collectively about accepting US deportees

By Bert Wilkinson

Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell addresses the opening of the 4th Annual AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in St. George, Grenada on Monday, July 28, 2025.

Grenada

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness

Antigua

PM Holness says Jamaicans must develop the island

By Bert Wilkinson

Chef Kingsley John, owner and executive chef of Bar Manje, returned to the Upper West Side kitchen where he once worked as a dishwasher and now reimagines Caribbean cuisine through contemporary technique.

St Lucia

From dishwasher to chef-owner: Kingsley John comes full circle

By Tracey Khan

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.

Grenada

Top stories from the Caribbean in 2025

By Bert Wilkinson

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