April 14, 2026 • 3 min readTrini Brief
Good morning darlings! Auntie Cheryl here from Chaguanas, where I had THREE cups of cocoa tea this morning because the news is a LOT and I needed the preparation.
KAMLA STOOD HER GROUND AND I AM PROUD
Listen. I know some people are saying that Trinidad should have gone to the CARICOM meeting. But Auntie Cheryl has been watching Kamla for years and she does not back down when she believes she is right. She believes she is right. And while I am personally not a geopolitical expert, I will say this: if you are going to pay 22% of something’s budget and that something is not being run the way you want, you have a right to say so very loudly. This is how things change. You do not change things by going to the meeting and sitting nicely. You change them by making them very uncomfortable until they listen.
Read More → April 14, 2026 • 3 min readBajan Brief
Good morning from Bridgetown. Barbados is observing the global situation with its customary composure, noting several domestic developments that require attention, and declining to panic about any of it publicly.
FARM LABOUR SCHEME: FEWER NEW RECRUITS, SAME PROGRAMME
The overseas farm labour scheme is still active but sending fewer new recruits to Canada. The reason is interesting: Canadian employers are increasingly requesting returning Barbadians — workers already familiar with agricultural operations — rather than first-timers. On one reading, this is a compliment. Barbadians are so reliable that Canada wants the same ones back. On another reading, it means fewer Barbadians are accessing the economic opportunity the scheme was designed to provide for the first time. The programme continues. The pipeline narrows.
Read More → April 14, 2026 • 3 min readTrini Brief
Good morning from Port of Spain, where the Prime Minister is fighting CARICOM, the crime statistics are fighting everyone, and the fuel situation is a global problem that is somehow arriving at our doorstep at the usual island speed.
PM KAMLA: CARICOM MEETING CONVENED, TRINIDAD DID NOT ATTEND
This is a sentence that requires careful reading: Trinidad demanded an emergency CARICOM meeting about CARICOM governance. CARICOM held the emergency meeting. Trinidad did not attend.
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