Selected from this mornings media reporting…
US ready to partner with CARICOM energy producers, sees role for Venezuela
February 26, 2026
Wednesday told Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders that the American government was ready to work with Caribbean energy producing nations to help them reap the benefits of those resources, and he also envisaged a future role for Venezuela in supplying the region with fossil fuels.
Mr Rubio, who travelled to St Kitts to meet with CARICOM leaders on Wednesday, said there were “extraordinary opportunities” for economic advancement, to work together on issues like energy.
“Many of the countries represented here today have energy resources that I know you seek to explore responsibly, safely, but in a way that generates wealth and prosperity for your people and your countries, and we want to be your partner in that regard,” he was quoted as saying in a State Department transcript of his remarks to regional leaders.
Source: Demerara Waves for full article
Guyana, T&T invited to March security meeting with Trump
February 26, 2026
The leaders of Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago – major United States’ (US) allies in the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – have been invited to a security meeting with American President Donald Trump slated for next week in Miami, Florida.
Guyana’s President, Irfaan Ali told reporters on the sidelines of the CARICOM mid-term summit in St Kitts that the planned March 7 talks would aim to find ways of improving regional security together. “It’s a meeting dealing with security matters, it’s dealing with some of the challenges in the region, and to see how we can coordinate better in relation to those challenges,” he said.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who had unabashedly credited the US military for a 42 percent reduction in murders in her country, would also be attending the meeting. “To partner with the US is not to undermine the Caribbean region, but to defend it. T-and-T (Trinidad and Tobago) will continue to cooperate with the U.S. in the best interests of our citizens to drive destabilising and destructive forces out of our country, out of our region, and out of our hemisphere,” she said in her address to Tuesday’s opening of the summit.
Disclosure of the meeting came hours after US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio pledged to CARICOM leaders in St Kitts that every effort would be made to stem the flow of guns from American soil to the Caribbean.
Source: Demerara Waves for full article