With the FIFA World Cup well underway, I found myself thinking back to the days of the Soca Warriors and Trinidad and Tobago’s appearance at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. This year, another Caribbean nation is making headlines. Curaçao has qualified for its first-ever World Cup, while Haiti has returned to football’s biggest stage…
Read More World Cup 2026: How Many CARICOM Countries Have Ever Made It?The U.S. State Department has introduced a 12-month pilot program requiring citizens of Malawi and Zambia to pay a refundable $15,000 bond when applying for B-1/B-2 (tourist or business) visas. The policy aims to deter visa overstays and targets countries with high overstay rates, weak vetting, or citizenship-by-investment programs without residency requirements. According to 2023…
Read More U.S. Visa Overstay Data: How the Caribbean Compares to Malawi and ZambiaNOTE: This article was originally published on our sister blog: www.barbadoscrimeblog.com Introduction Around the second week of June, I decided to launch an online poll that asked one simple question: “How safe do you feel living in Barbados today?” This was not meant to be a formal survey (while that would have been more rigorous,…
Read More Barbados Safety Poll – June 2025: Background and Respondent Profile (Part 1)Tracking violent incidents in Barbados is central to everything I do here on the blog and in the homicide database. It all starts with checking the news periodically throughout the day and into the night. Once I find something related to violent crime, it becomes an incident. This also means that my numbers may understate the…
Read More Tracking Violent Incidents in Barbados January to May 2025Data and stats for homicides in Barbados, January to April 2025 edition, can now be found on barbadoscrimeblog.com.
Read More Barbados Homicide Statistics January to April 2025