US military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth

US says one person survived latest strikes, having killed 51 people in attacks on at least 13 vessels in recent weeks…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/latest-boat-strikes-caribbean-hegseth-trump

 

Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up

Asked whether he would declare war against the cartels, Trump suggested he would continue with individual strikes. "I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK?" he said. "We're going to kill them, you know they're going to be, like, dead."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/trump-caribbean-uss-gerald-ford-carrier

 

Trump announces new deadly strike on suspected drug boat in Caribbean

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans", the president claimed, without citing any legal authority for the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/trump-military-strike-boat-caribbean

 

Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands

Climate change and extreme weather worsen water insecurity…

https://theconversation.com/thirsty-in-paradise-water-crises-are-a-growing-problem-across-the-caribbean-islands-227345

Puerto Ricans Are Living in the Future of Climate Change Right Now -- The Daily Beast

Millions of people in the Caribbean are getting a glimpse of a future that more and more people around the world will soon experience. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-ricans-are-living-in-the-future-of-climate-change-right-now