Good morning. Today’s briefing begins in Haiti, where El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has sent more than 2,000 soldiers and attack helicopters into the fight against the gangs after four of his airmen went missing in an ambush. The surge has changed the shape of Haiti’s security effort almost overnight, and it is raising hard questions about who is in charge.
On Monday, the world’s climate negotiators gather in Antalya, Türkiye, for COP31. For Jamaica, a year after Hurricane Melissa, this is no distant summit: Jamaica is leading the Caribbean’s work on two of the most important parts of the talks.
At home, two economic stories stand out. The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association says the government has not yet started promised technical talks on raising the General Consumption Tax on tourism from 10 to 15 percent. And Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says a renewable energy tender of about 300 megawatts, with battery storage, could be launched before the year ends, as fuel prices edge down at the refinery gate.
Finally, in Ukraine, the death toll from a Russian strike on a school used to hand out humanitarian aid has climbed above 40, days before American, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are due to meet in Abu Dhabi.
None of today’s five stories repeats a topic from our last two briefings. Here are today’s top five.
1. Haiti: El Salvador’s Troops Surge In, and the Question of Command Grows
What happened
Haiti’s fight against its gangs has a new and very visible player. El Salvador has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers, along with attack helicopters, Al Jazeera reported, drawing on Associated Press reporting. On Tuesday, President Nayib Bukele posted video on X that he said showed Salvadoran helicopters firing on gang members who were attacking Chadian soldiers of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (GSF). On Wednesday, he taunted the gangs directly: “Gather your gangs so we can go fight with them.”
The trigger was an ambush on October 18. Four Salvadoran Air Force technicians serving with the GSF were attacked in an armored vehicle in Santo, in the Croix-des-Bouquets area east of Port-au-Prince. Their vehicle was hit by gunfire and explosives, and the men fled on foot into gang-held territory. According to the Latin Times, Haitian police, GSF units and Salvadoran troops later entered Santo and found the burned-out vehicle, but no trace of the four men. El Salvador believes they are alive. A leader of the 400 Mawozo gang has claimed they were killed but has offered no evidence.
Who answers to whom
Here is the complication. The United Nations says only about 200 of the Salvadorans fall under the GSF’s mandate. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric has described the rest as a bilateral arrangement between Haiti and El Salvador, and has stressed that all operations must respect international human rights law. The Miami Herald reported that the new troops arrived before Haiti and El Salvador had signed an agreement and before they had completed the human rights training the force requires, and that they answer to a Salvadoran commander rather than the GSF’s Mongolian force commander. Bukele himself says 2,500 troops have gone in.
The Herald also reported that a Haitian diaspora group, UNA-Haiti, accused the Salvadoran forces of bombing civilians. Bukele rejected the claim: “Our mission doesn’t even have bombs at its disposal.” The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it treated 30 people wounded by gunfire or drone explosions between October 18 and 26, Al Jazeera reported.
Haiti’s government responds
Haiti’s prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, spoke publicly about the crisis on Tuesday for the first time since the abductions. In remarks reported by the AP, carried by ABC News, he insisted that the Haitian state, not foreign forces, sets the direction of operations, and he thanked Bukele for his help. He said operations are under way in Kenscoff, Gressier and the Artibonite region, and that he aims to add 4,000 police officers and 15,000 soldiers. The Miami Herald reported that he put the total of international forces, including the Salvadorans, at more than 4,000.
Not everyone is reassured. Romain Le Cour of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime told the AP: “Haiti’s security response is already an orchestra without a conductor.”
Background
The GSF was created by the UN Security Council in September 2025. On September 29 this year, the Council renewed it to March 31, 2027, according to the UN Support Office in Haiti, which said it was then supporting more than 1,500 GSF personnel. Jamaica is among the contributing countries and sits on the force’s group of partners; the Jamaica Observer reported at the time that Kingston welcomed the renewal and urged partners to provide more personnel, money and equipment.
The human cost is enormous. More than 5,700 people were killed or wounded between January and mid-September, according to UN figures cited by the AP, and Al Jazeera reported that about 5.94 million Haitians face acute hunger. Elections have slipped again: the Jamaica Gleaner, carrying the AP, reported last week that the first round has been moved from December 13 to July 18, 2027, with a runoff on October 4, 2027. Haiti has not held an election in more than a decade.
The violence keeps pushing people from their homes. Late last month, the UN said more than 10,000 people fled in just four days from Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite and Arcahaie, the Rio Times reported, citing UN spokesman Dujarric. The same report put the number of displaced Haitians at nearly 1.5 million, based on International Organization for Migration data, and said the 2026 humanitarian response plan was only about half funded. For neighbors like Jamaica, that displacement is not abstract, since instability there can affect migration and security across the region.
What this could mean (analysis)
Supporters of the Salvadoran surge will argue that the gangs have held the upper hand for years and that only overwhelming force will change that; Bukele’s videos of soldiers being greeted by residents suggest that many Haitians are desperate for any relief. Critics will point to Bukele’s record at home, where tens of thousands have been jailed under a state of emergency that rights groups condemn, and warn that a parallel force operating outside UN rules could put civilians at risk and weaken accountability.
For Jamaica and CARICOM, which have pushed hardest for an international response, the question is whether more boots on the ground can be joined to a single plan, led by Haitians, that also rebuilds the police, the courts and the ballot box.
What to watch next
Watch for news of the four missing airmen, any formal agreement between Haiti and El Salvador, independent reporting on civilian casualties, and whether CARICOM governments speak publicly about the new deployment.
2. COP31 Opens Monday: The Caribbean Arrives With a Clear List, and Jamaica Has a Lead Role
What happened
The 31st UN climate conference, COP31, opens on Monday, November 9, in Antalya, Türkiye, and runs to November 20. In an unusual split, Türkiye hosts and holds the presidency while Australia’s Chris Bowen chairs the formal negotiations, Climate Home News reported in its pre-summit briefing. Leaders speak on November 11 and 12.
Caribbean governments have set out their demands in advance. In a ministerial declaration reported by the Jamaica Gleaner, via the Caribbean Media Corporation, CARICOM ministers called for an ambitious outcome focused on delivery: keeping the 1.5°C limit central and making any overshoot short; deeper emission cuts by the biggest emitters; tripling adaptation finance by 2035; a fully funded Loss and Damage Fund; and climate finance of at least US$300 billion a year by 2035, rising toward US$1.3 trillion, delivered as grants or cheap loans that do not deepen island debt.
Jamaica’s role
Jamaica will not be a bystander. According to a report from CaribPulse, via Antigua News Room, Jamaica is leading CARICOM’s negotiating work on adaptation together with Dominica, and on the overarching “cover decision,” the summit’s main political statement, together with Barbados. Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and Belize lead on finance, and Barbados and Saint Lucia on loss and damage.
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), speaking for 39 nations, will carry those positions into the main hall. Its chair, Ambassador Ilana Seid, told the Gleaner’s Earth Today page that “COP31 must be a reckoning with climate injustice.” She also warned that a strong El Niño is worsening drought, including rainfall shortfalls in the Caribbean.
What the science says
Two UN reports frame the talks. The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report, released in late October, found that warming will pass 1.5°C. Under current policies, the world is heading for about 2.8°C this century, and even if every national pledge is delivered, about 2.6°C, UN News reported. Only the fastest cuts would limit the peak to 1.7–1.8°C and bring temperatures back toward 1.5°C by 2100.
The second report, on adaptation, landed on Wednesday. Developing countries will need about US$305 billion a year by 2035 to adapt, while international public adaptation finance was only about US$28–32 billion in 2024, according to UN News. Even tripling that money would cover only 20 to 29 percent of the need.
The fault lines
Climate Home News reported that Brazil has published a voluntary roadmap for moving away from fossil fuels, which the European Union and small island states may try to reference in the final text over the objections of oil producers. The European Union is reportedly arriving without new money. Developing countries want a number attached to last year’s pledge to triple adaptation finance, and want rich countries to say who pays.
The United States will not take part in the negotiations, having left the Paris Agreement for a second time. Euronews reported, with AFP, that 19 members of Congress, along with state and local leaders, will attend instead.
The Loss and Damage Fund is under scrutiny too. Writing for the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, two analysts noted that the fund has about US$822 million pledged but only about US$450 million paid in, against 176 requests worth some US$2.8 billion. They held up Jamaica’s catastrophe bond and risk pool, which were due to pay US$242 million within weeks of Melissa, as a model for faster help.
Why it matters for Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa struck on October 28, 2025. The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) puts its total cost at about US$12.2 billion, the costliest disaster in Jamaica’s recorded history, the Gleaner reported last month. For a country still rebuilding schools and homes, the arithmetic of adaptation and loss-and-damage finance is personal.
What this could mean (analysis)
With Washington absent, Europe cautious and major emitters divided, expectations for Antalya are modest. The Caribbean’s leverage lies in moral clarity and tight coordination. A cover decision that names a number for adaptation finance, and a faster Loss and Damage Fund, would count as real wins for the islands. Some developed countries argue that public budgets are stretched and that private capital must carry more of the load; small states reply that private money rarely reaches the most vulnerable.
What to watch next
Watch the opening on Monday, the leaders’ segment on November 11–12, whether the final text mentions Brazil’s fossil fuel roadmap, and how Jamaica’s negotiators fare on adaptation.
3. Tourism Tax: Hoteliers Press Finance Ministry as a 15 Percent GCT Looms
What happened
Jamaica’s hoteliers say the government is dragging its feet. In a statement on Wednesday, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) urged the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to start technical talks on the planned increase in General Consumption Tax (GCT) on tourism activities, from 10 percent to the standard 15 percent from April 2027, the Jamaica Observer reported.
According to the JHTA, it met Finance Minister Fayval Williams on September 23, and both sides agreed to set up a technical working group. It was to include finance managers from member hotels, the accounting firm PwC, the Finance Ministry, Tax Administration Jamaica and the Planning Institute of Jamaica, meeting online every two weeks from mid-October. The JHTA says it named its members, but no meeting has been held. JHTA President O’Brian Heron called for the group to be convened at once, with a firm schedule published before a wider review this month. “We have been patient, and we have been constructive,” he said. The Observer reported no response from the ministry by press time.
Background
The measure was announced in February’s budget. Minister Williams told Parliament the rate on specified tourism activities would rise to the standard rate from April 1, 2027, raising about J$11.4 billion a year, the Jamaica Information Service reported. The JIS noted that tourism has paid a reduced rate since 2005, set at 10 percent since 2009. The JHTA argues that many hotels have already signed contracts with tour operators running into 2027 and beyond, so they can neither absorb the cost easily nor pass it on. It has paid PwC for an impact study and wants the government to broaden the tax base rather than raise the rate.
A sector still recovering
The timing is sensitive. Preliminary Jamaica Tourist Board figures show more than 1.8 million stopover visitors and more than 900,000 cruise passengers from January to October, with about US$2.9 billion in earnings, PAX News reported. Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, speaking to travel advisors in Canada, said: “We have moved from emergency response to rebuilding, from rebuilding to recovery.” That compares with US$2.5 billion from January to August, when about 30 percent of rooms were still offline, Caribbean Journal reported in September.
For the winter season, Caribbean Journal reported this week that more than 75 percent of hotel rooms are now operating, with 90 percent projected by December 1, and that several large resorts are reopening, along with new flights from Canada and Florida. Heron, though, has cautioned that the numbers can mislead. “Reopening is not the same as recovery,” he told the Gleaner last week.
The tax dispute also comes as hoteliers fight a separate battle with Booking.com over commissions charged on government taxes, which we covered on Wednesday.
Why it matters
Tourism is Jamaica’s largest earner of foreign exchange and one of its biggest employers. The government, for its part, faces heavy rebuilding costs after Melissa and has already ordered spending restrictions across the public sector, including a pause on official vehicle purchases, the Observer reported. Treating tourism like most other goods and services, at the standard GCT rate, is a matter of fairness and revenue in the ministry’s view; for the industry, it is a question of competitiveness against other Caribbean destinations.
What this could mean (analysis)
Both sides have a case. A higher rate would bring in billions for schools, roads and recovery, and the start date was already pushed to give the sector time. But if a five-point rise makes Jamaica more expensive just as airlines add seats, the government could lose some of that revenue through fewer visitors or lower spending. A working group that actually meets, using shared data from PwC and the Planning Institute, is the best way to test those claims before April 2027 arrives.
What to watch next
Watch for a response from Minister Williams, a date for the first working group meeting, and whether the JHTA makes its PwC study public.
4. Power Play: Jamaica Eyes a Year-End Launch for a 300 MW Renewable Tender
What happened
Jamaica’s next big step toward clean power could come within weeks. Energy, Transport and Telecommunications Minister Daryl Vaz told Parliament on Tuesday that the government hopes to launch its next competitive renewable energy tender by the end of November, or in December at the latest, the Jamaica Gleaner reported. The tender covers about 300 megawatts (MW) of new renewable generation, backed by 150 MW of battery energy storage.
The Generation Procurement Entity (GPE) is preparing the bid documents. The tender was first planned for September but was delayed to allow more consultation with stakeholders, Vaz said in reply to questions from his opposition counterpart.
Background: the last tender, still unfinished
The previous round shows both the appetite and the obstacles. In September 2023, the GPE sought 100 MW of renewable power. It received 12 proposals totaling about 482 MW, almost five times what was needed. In November 2024, Wigton Energy and SunTerra Energy each won 50 MW of solar contracts, and both received generation licenses in April 2025. But the Gleaner reported that the power purchase agreements are still not signed, mainly because of questions about grid integration, battery storage and contract terms.
A recent Gleaner editorial noted that the winning bids averaged about 6.16 US cents per kilowatt-hour, while Jamaicans pay about US$0.28–0.35 per kWh for electricity. It said renewables now make up about 20 percent of generating capacity but supply only about 13 percent of electricity, against a national target of 50 percent by 2030.
Fuel prices edge down
Motorists got modest relief this week. Petrojam cut its ex-refinery price for 87 gasoline by J$2.94 to J$195.81 a liter and 90 gasoline by the same amount to J$204.57, effective Thursday, the Jamaica Observer reported. Auto diesel fell 25 cents to J$246.41, while cooking gas rose, with propane up J$4.50 to J$93.33 a liter. These are refinery prices; what drivers pay at the pump includes retailer markups. Two weeks earlier, the Gleaner reported 87 gasoline at J$201.81.
World oil prices explain part of the picture. Brent crude settled at US$94.62 a barrel on Wednesday after a sharp fall, Rigzone reported, as traders reacted to the US election results and hopes of calmer relations with Iran. Prices rebounded to almost US$100 early Friday on fresh worries about shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters, republished by Freedom 96.9.
Why it matters
Every barrel of oil Jamaica does not need to import is money saved and a little less exposure to wars far away. High electricity costs weigh on households and make it harder for factories, hotels and small businesses to compete. Solar and wind bid at a fraction of today’s average tariff, though the price of reliable supply also includes storage, grid upgrades and backup power.
What this could mean (analysis)
The government deserves credit for including battery storage from the start, which addresses one of the problems that has delayed the last round. But launching a bigger tender while the 2024 contracts are still unsigned carries risk: investors may wonder whether winning a bid in Jamaica leads quickly to a working plant. Clearing the Wigton and SunTerra agreements would send a strong signal. The coming talks over the Jamaica Public Service Company’s license, which Caribbean National Weekly reported expires in 2027, will also shape how fast new power can reach the grid.
What to watch next
Watch for the GPE’s formal tender notice, any movement on the 2024 power purchase agreements, and Petrojam’s next weekly price notice.
5. Ukraine: Aid-Center Strike Toll Passes 40 as Abu Dhabi Talks Approach
What happened
Ukraine is mourning dozens of civilians and rescuers. On Monday, Russian aerial bombs struck a school in the village of Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, that was being used to distribute humanitarian aid, the Kyiv Independent reported. Classes had been suspended, and the building served as a shelter where aid was handed out every Monday. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia then dropped more bombs on a shelter where people had taken cover.
By Thursday morning, rescuers had recovered 42 bodies, and up to 33 more people might still be under the rubble, Ukraine’s National Police said, according to Interfax-Ukraine. Zelensky later put the toll at 43. Among the dead, Reuters reported, were two rescuers, four police officers and a military medic who had come to help the wounded. Reuters verified bodycam footage from a police officer who was killed, showing him sheltering with civilians as a glide-bomb warning sounded.
Two accounts
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it struck Ukrainian military units around Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, killing up to 25 soldiers, Reuters reported. Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilians.
The UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine said the attack “appeared to violate the most fundamental principles” of international humanitarian law, noting that the time and place of the aid distribution had been announced in advance, EUalive reported. The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Michael O’Flaherty, said such strikes amount to war crimes when aimed at civilians, Ukrinform reported. EUalive observed that reactions from Washington and the major European capitals had been muted, and Zelensky complained that the world’s response had been small.
The road to Abu Dhabi
The strike comes days before the first three-way talks since February. US envoy Steve Witkoff announced that the United States will mediate working-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11, the Kyiv Post reported. He listed post-war security arrangements, de-escalation and humanitarian issues as topics. Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said any deal must include Ukraine dropping its NATO ambitions and no foreign troops on its soil, while Zelensky wants any US security guarantees approved by Congress.
Zelensky spoke with Witkoff and Jared Kushner for 90 minutes on Wednesday to prepare, the Kyiv Post reported, and senior officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany and the EU met in Brussels on reconstruction and security guarantees. Zelensky wrote that “the negotiations must move forward at full throttle,” the AP reported, via The Korea Times. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has also offered to call Vladimir Putin about ending the war, though the Kremlin said there were “no concrete plans at the moment,” Reuters reported, via Al-Monitor.
A wider bill
The war’s costs keep spreading. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says it faces a €500 million shortfall to repair the giant steel shelter over the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl, damaged by a Russian drone in February 2025, POLITICO reported, republished by The Global Eye. “It’s not a Ukrainian problem,” said EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso.
Military help continues to flow. Italy is finalizing a new military aid package for Ukraine, its 13th and the first this year, and Defense Minister Guido Crosetto is due to brief a parliamentary security committee on November 10, Reuters reported, via Internazionale. The contents are classified, and one of the parties in Italy’s governing coalition, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s League, opposes it. Meanwhile, the air war goes on: overnight into Thursday, Ukraine said it downed or suppressed 105 of 128 Russian drones, and Russia said it shot down nearly 500 Ukrainian drones, many aimed at the Ryazan region, the AP reported.
Why it matters for the Caribbean
Jamaica sits far from the front line, but the war’s ripples reach the island through energy and food prices and through the strain it places on aid budgets that small states also depend on. A durable peace would ease pressure on world markets and free resources for other crises, including Haiti and climate recovery.
What this could mean (analysis)
Strikes like Komyshuvakha harden opinion in Kyiv just as diplomats try to lower the temperature. Supporters of fast talks argue that only a negotiated settlement will stop such killings; skeptics warn that a deal reached under pressure could reward aggression and invite future wars. Abu Dhabi is billed as a working-level meeting, so expectations should be measured.
What to watch next
Watch for a final death toll, whether the UN Security Council meets on the attack, who leads each delegation in Abu Dhabi, and any prisoner exchanges or humanitarian steps that emerge.
Closing Reflection: Repairers of the Breach
This is a personal reflection and opinion, not reporting.
Today’s stories share a common thread: broken things, and people trying to mend them. Haitian families wait for safety in streets that have known little of it for years. Island nations travel to Türkiye asking the world to help them rebuild after storms they did little to cause. Hoteliers and finance officials need to sit at the same table to keep a recovering industry standing. Engineers and investors are ready to build a cleaner grid. And in a Ukrainian village, rescuers dig through rubble while diplomats prepare to talk.
The prophet Isaiah, writing to a people surrounded by ruins, offered a promise and a calling: “thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach” (Isaiah 58:12, KJV). In the verses just before it, the prophet ties that title to ordinary acts of justice and mercy: sharing bread with the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and lifting the burdens of the oppressed.
That calling does not tell us which security strategy will save Haiti, what the right tax rate for tourism should be, or how a war in Europe should end. People of faith and good will reach different answers on those questions. But it does remind us that repair is slow, faithful work, done by many hands, and that every one of us has some breach within reach: a neighbor still rebuilding a roof, a relative struggling with bills, a cause that needs our time.
This morning, let us pray for the people of Haiti and those sent to protect them, for negotiators heading to Antalya and Abu Dhabi, for those who lead our economy and our power grid, and for grieving families in Komyshuvakha. And let us ask for the grace to be repairers in our own small corners.
Walk good, and God bless.
Sources
- 1. Haiti and El Salvador’s troops
- Al Jazeera, “El Salvador’s Bukele touts military intervention in Haiti,” November 5, 2026.
- Latin Times, “Burned-Out Armored Vehicle Found in Haiti — But Four Salvadorans Still Missing Three Weeks After Gang Ambush,” November 5, 2026.
- Miami Herald (via Yahoo News), “Who do Salvadoran troops answer to if they aren’t part of the UN force in Haiti?,” November 3, 2026.
- Associated Press (via ABC News), “Haiti’s prime minister Fils-Aimé speaks out as concerns over El Salvador’s troops deepen,” November 3, 2026.
- UN Support Office in Haiti (UNSOH), “Security Council extends Gang Suppression Force and UNSOH mandates,” September 29, 2026.
- Jamaica Observer, “Jamaica welcomes UN Security Council renewal of Haiti Gang Suppression Force mandate,” September 29, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner (AP), “Haiti announces new election dates,” October 30, 2026.
- Rio Times, “Haiti Gangs Drive 10,000 From Home in 4 Days,” October 25, 2026.
- 2. COP31 and the Caribbean
- Climate Home News, “COP31 Briefing: What to expect from the Antalya climate summit?,” November 5, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner (CMC), “CARICOM issues ministerial declaration ahead of COP,” November 3, 2026.
- CaribPulse (via Antigua News Room), “Antigua and Barbuda to help lead CARICOM climate finance and science negotiations at COP31,” November 4, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner, “Earth Today | ‘A reckoning with climate injustice’,” November 5, 2026.
- UN News, “Global warming will breach 1.5°C – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back,” October 21, 2026.
- UN News, “‘The world is not ready’: Climate adaptation cash falls far short as warming heads past 1.5°C,” November 4, 2026.
- Euronews (with AFP), “‘Cautious optimism’ for renewed US engagement on climate as delegation heads to COP31,” November 5, 2026.
- Lowy Institute, The Interpreter, “COP31: Rebuilding the Loss and Damage Fund for speed,” November 6, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner, “MELISSA RELIEF UNDER SCRUTINY,” October 25, 2026.
- 3. Tourism GCT increase
- Jamaica Observer, “JHTA presses finance ministry to speed up discussions on proposed GCT increase,” November 5, 2026.
- Jamaica Information Service, “Gov’t Projects $29.4B From New Revenue Measures In Fiscal Year 2026/27,” February 13, 2026.
- PAX News, “Jamaica nears 3 million visitors as Bartlett meets Winnipeg advisors,” November 4, 2026.
- Caribbean Journal, “Jamaica Has Welcomed 2.34 Million Visitors This Year, Even With 30 Percent of Its Hotel Rooms Still Offline,” September 11, 2026.
- Caribbean Journal, “Jamaica Is Adding New Flights and Reopening Major Resorts for Winter,” November 3, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner, “Tourism rebounds but recovery remains unfinished,” October 29, 2026.
- Jamaica Observer, “No big bill,” November 5, 2026.
- 4. Renewable energy tender and fuel prices
- Jamaica Gleaner, “Push for power,” November 5, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner, “Editorial | Full steam ahead on renewables,” October 31, 2026.
- Jamaica Observer, “Gas prices down $2.94, diesel down $.25,” November 4, 2026.
- Jamaica Gleaner, “Gas prices down,” October 21, 2026.
- Rigzone, “Oil Prices Tumble After Midterms,” November 5, 2026.
- Reuters (via Freedom 96.9), “Oil set for sharp weekly drop but Middle East supply concerns provide floor,” November 6, 2026.
- Caribbean National Weekly, “Jamaica moves ahead with JPS licence talks as electricity sector reform advances,” June 12, 2026.
- 5. Ukraine strike and Abu Dhabi talks
- Kyiv Independent, “‘Insane attack’ — Death toll from Russian attack on Komyshuvakha rises to 40 as search operation enters 3rd day,” November 4, 2026.
- Interfax-Ukraine, “Rescuers recover 42 bodies from rubble in Komyshuvakha, 33 more may remain – police,” November 5, 2026.
- Reuters (via AOL), “Dozens dead and missing after Russian strike on Ukrainian aid centre, officials say,” November 4, 2026.
- 112.ua, “Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Condemns Deadly Russian Strike on Komyshuvakha and Demands Global Isolation of Russia,” November 3, 2026.
- Kyiv Independent (via Yahoo News), “Death toll of Russian strike on Komyshuvakha rises to 43 as search continues,” November 5, 2026.
- EUalive, “Double-tap Russian strike on Ukraine humanitarian centre fails to trigger international condemnation,” November 5, 2026.
- Ukrinform, “CoE commissioner calls strikes on school in Komyshuvakha war crime,” November 5, 2026.
- Kyiv Post, “US Sets Ukraine-Russia Talks in Abu Dhabi as Trump Pushes for Peace Deal,” November 3, 2026.
- Kyiv Post, “Zelensky Holds 90-Minute Discussion With US Envoys Witkoff, Kushner,” November 4, 2026.
- Associated Press (via The Korea Times), “Russia and Ukraine exchange airstrikes as US envoy describes renewed security talks as productive,” November 6, 2026.
- Reuters (via Al-Monitor), “Turkey’s Erdogan says he wants to discuss ending Russia-Ukraine war with Putin after talks with Zelenskiy,” November 5, 2026.
- Reuters (via Internazionale), “Italy finalising new military aid package for Ukraine,” November 5, 2026.
- POLITICO (via The Global Eye), “Damaged Chernobyl nuclear site needs urgent funding, warns European development bank,” November 5, 2026.
This briefing was prepared with AI research and writing assistance under Colin Beharie’s editorial direction. Every fact links to its original source. Spot an error? See our Sources & Corrections policy.
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