Most people in the diaspora have thought about going home. Far fewer could tell you, today, whether their family could legally live there next month, how their money would get there, or how long their savings would last once they landed. This repatriation checklist is built to close that gap in 90 days, without selling … Read more
The Caribbean received an estimated US$20.9 billion in remittances in 2025, according to IDB regional estimates. Jamaica alone took in a record US$3.49 billion, about 15% of GDP. Most of that money pays for rent, food and school fees. Very little becomes ownership. That gap is the case for Caribbean diaspora investing. In 2026, governments … Read more
At a Nairobi packhouse in Murang’a, a cold-chain manager checks the temperature log on a crate of Hass avocados bound for a market Kenya has never shipped to directly. For years, “export” meant Rotterdam, Dubai, or, more recently, Shanghai. It never meant Kingston. That changed on July 13, 2026, when Kenya’s first-ever resident High Commissioner, … Read more
In a fabric stall off Kingston’s Coronation Market, a trader who has spent a decade importing kente and adinkra cloth from Accra watched President John Dramani Mahama’s motorcade roll past on the evening news. She has no direct way to pay her Ghanaian supplier without routing through three separate services and losing money at every … Read more