Caribbean Daily Brief on The Tradewinds Briefhttps://tradewindsbrief.com/authors/caribbean-daily-brief/Recent content in Caribbean Daily Brief on The Tradewinds BriefThe Tradewinds Briefhttps://tradewindsbrief.com/images/brand/og-default.pnghttps://tradewindsbrief.com/images/brand/og-default.pngHugo -- 0.142.0en-usSun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400Caribbean Daily Brief: Jamaica's Pension Scandal Widens, Trinidad Finds 56 Bodies in a Cemetery (Not Buried), Barbados Gets Fitch Warning, and the Reggae Girlz-Golden Jaguars Match Is Tonighthttps://tradewindsbrief.com/posts/gdb_2026-04-19_caribbean_brief/Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://tradewindsbrief.com/posts/gdb_2026-04-19_caribbean_brief/<p>Sunday across the region. The kind of Sunday where three countries produce three completely different species of chaos and we pretend this is normal. Pour your rum punch. Here is what is happening.</p> <hr> <h2 id="jamaica--the-pension-scandal-gets-worse">JAMAICA — The Pension Scandal Gets Worse</h2> <h3 id="retired-police-officers-cannot-pay-their-light-bills">Retired police officers cannot pay their light bills</h3> <p>The Sunday Gleaner&rsquo;s lead story this morning is devastating. <strong>Retired Jamaican police officers</strong> — some who served three decades — are unable to pay basic household bills because their pensions have never been properly processed. Retiree &ldquo;Marlon Campbell&rdquo; (pseudonym) told the paper he has been getting an interim monthly pension of just over J$100,000 for nearly a decade, still waiting for his final pension letter.</p>