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Trini Dispatch — Thursday, April 16, 2026

Good morning from Port of Spain, where the post-Carnival atmosphere lingers and the political atmosphere continues to be precisely what it has always been.

KAMLA FIRES AT CARICOM

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called CARICOM’s leadership “dysfunctional and incompetent,” placing herself alongside Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador Ronald Sanders, who has separately suggested the Secretary General should consider resigning. This is notable. CARICOM criticism from within is not new, but simultaneous salvo from two different capitals with this level of directness marks a shift in temperature. The bloc’s response to the economic disruptions from the US-Iran war appears to be the immediate trigger. The longer frustrations are documented and well understood by anyone who has attended a CARICOM summit.