# 441 Caribbean News Round Up Week of May 25, 2026

We move through the week’s biggest Caribbean headlines, from CARICOM’s warning about the humanitarian impact of sanctions on Cuba to new Ebola-related travel restrictions in the northern Caribbean. We also track how the region is funding resilience, tightening security, expanding tech ambitions, and deepening freedom of movement across borders on the Pulse of the Caribbean Podcast for the week of May 25, 2026. Other headlines in this episode include

• BVI telecom CEO leads regional utility regulators
• Barbados Bridgetown Initiative for climate finance reform
• Jamaica blue-green fund plans for disaster risk mitigation 
• Puerto Rico as a potential site for AI computing infrastructure 
• Saint Lucia public pressure to reinstate capital punishment 
• Antigua and Barbuda rollout of nationwide surveillance cameras
• Dominican Republic and US Joint Military Training 
• Barbados and Guyana agreement for national ID travel starting July 1, 2026
• Dominican Republic President donation of full salary to nonprofit and religious groups
• Ziggy Marley new album “Brightside” release and the return to vinyl craftsmanship

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