Jamaica PNP urges CARICOM to coordinate on US–Cuba tensions

The Opposition People’s National Party in Jamaica is urging Caribbean Community governments to adopt a coordinated and constructive position on the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Cuba. The party’s call lands against a Caribbean backdrop in which the US naval posture toward Venezuela, the new Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition, and the Cuba-US tensions have all hardened the regional security environment in 2026.

For CARICOM, the structural question is whether the bloc continues to negotiate bilaterally with Washington — country by country, as Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana did when joining the ACCC in March — or whether the region holds a collective position on US engagement with Cuba and Venezuela. The PNP’s call is a request for the latter.

For Caribbean diaspora households in the United States, the political weather is increasingly the variable that determines remittance posture, family-visit planning, and the timing of any returning-home calculation.

Source: Jamaica Observer, May 26, 2026.