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The Godfather of Caribbean AI: How Adrian Dunkley Built the Region's AI Future

Leadership

Caribbean·June 14, 2026

The Godfather of Caribbean AI: How Adrian Dunkley Built the Region's AI Future

Adrian H. Dunkley is the President of the Caribbean AI Association and the Godfather of Caribbean AI. This is the record behind the title: two PhDs, the first AI company in the Caribbean, a US$1 million fund, sovereign AI for every Caribbean government, and a mission to save 100 million lives.

Dr S Budall

The Caribbean AI Talent Exodus: Why the Region's Best AI Minds Are Leaving and What Must Change

Workforce

Caribbean·June 12, 2026

The Caribbean AI Talent Exodus: Why the Region's Best AI Minds Are Leaving and What Must Change

The Caribbean produces skilled AI researchers and engineers. Within 12 months of graduation, most are working in Toronto, Miami, or London. CAIA's analysis of the talent pipeline crisis and the six structural changes that would turn the tide.

Dr S Budall

One Voice, Seventeen Nations: The Caribbean AI Association's Blueprint for Regional AI Unity

Governance & Mission

Caribbean·June 8, 2026

One Voice, Seventeen Nations: The Caribbean AI Association's Blueprint for Regional AI Unity

The Caribbean AI Association was formed to give 17+ Caribbean nations a single, authoritative voice on AI governance, ethics, and innovation. From CARICOM advocacy to climate resilience AI to talent retention, this is what that mission means in practice.

Adrian Dunkley

CARICOM at the AI Crossroads: The Five Decisions That Will Define the Caribbean's Place in the Global AI Economy

Policy & Governance

Caribbean·June 1, 2026

CARICOM at the AI Crossroads: The Five Decisions That Will Define the Caribbean's Place in the Global AI Economy

Five strategic decisions will determine whether the Caribbean leads or lags in the global AI economy. CAIA's framework for making the right calls on data sovereignty, governance, talent, applications, and regional coordination.

Dr S Budall

The 2026 Caribbean AI Report Card: Who's Sprinting, Who's Stepping, and What the Region Must Do Before the Window Closes

Regional Analysis

Caribbean·May 27, 2026

The 2026 Caribbean AI Report Card: Who's Sprinting, Who's Stepping, and What the Region Must Do Before the Window Closes

A frank assessment of where each Caribbean nation stands in the AI race. Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados, Saint Lucia and beyond. What each is doing right, where each is falling behind, and the collective action the region needs before 2028.

Nicholas Dunkley

AI Literacy

Caribbean·May 13, 2026

AI Literacy in the Caribbean: What Every Citizen Needs to Know by 2027

A practical framework for AI literacy across the Caribbean. What workers, students, parents, teachers, and policymakers from Kingston to Castries need to understand, and how CAIA is building it.

Adrian Dunkley

AI Readiness

Caribbean·May 13, 2026

AI Readiness in the Caribbean: A National Stocktake for the Next Five Years

A regional framework for measuring AI readiness across Caribbean nations. Infrastructure, data, talent, governance, and adoption. What governments, employers, and citizens must do before 2030.

Adrian Dunkley

AI Agents

Caribbean·May 11, 2026

AI Agents Are Coming for the Caribbean: 7 Industries About to Be Reinvented Before 2027

Autonomous AI agents are quietly rewriting the economics of work across the Caribbean. From the Bahamas to Belize, here are the seven industries that will look unrecognisable within 24 months, and what Caribbean leaders must do about it now.

Adrian Dunkley

AI Agents

Caribbean·May 10, 2026

From Bridgetown to Paramaribo: How AI Agents Are Quietly Rewiring Caribbean Small Business

Small business is the backbone of every Caribbean economy. AI agents are already changing what one person with a laptop can build in Suriname, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and across the region.

Adrian Dunkley

Tourism

Caribbean·May 9, 2026

The 24/7 Concierge: How AI Agents Will Save Caribbean Tourism (and Earn Billions Doing It)

AI agents are about to remake the Caribbean visitor experience from the moment a traveller dreams of a trip to the moment they post the last sunset photo. Here is how the Bahamas, Cayman, Aruba, Antigua, the USVI, Anguilla, Saint Martin and Turks and Caicos can lead.

Adrian Dunkley

AI for Remote Schooling: A Practical Guide for Caribbean Parents and Teachers

Education

Caribbean·May 4, 2026

AI for Remote Schooling: A Practical Guide for Caribbean Parents and Teachers

A hands-on guide to using NotebookLM, Gemini, Gemini Canvas, ChatGPT Learning Mode, and vibe coding for remote schooling across the Caribbean. Real prompts, real lessons, real results from parents and teachers in Kingston, Bridgetown, and Port of Spain.

Adrian Dunkley

Public Health

Caribbean·May 4, 2026

AI in Caribbean Public Health: From Chronic Disease to Outbreak Response

The Caribbean carries one of the heaviest chronic disease burdens in the Americas, faces recurring arbovirus outbreaks, and runs its health systems on workforces stretched thin by migration. AI is not a substitute for the doctors and nurses we need. It is a way to make the ones we have go further.

Adrian Dunkley

Jamaica's AI Moment: From the Call Centre Floor to the Cutting Edge

Workforce

Jamaica·Apr 28, 2026

Jamaica's AI Moment: From the Call Centre Floor to the Cutting Edge

Jamaica's 85,000-strong BPO workforce stands at a crossroads. The question is not whether AI will change the island's dominant industry, but whether Jamaica moves fast enough to lead the transformation rather than absorb it.

Adrian Dunkley

Energy

Trinidad and Tobago·Mar 20, 2026

Energy Intelligence: How Trinidad and Tobago Can Use AI to Extend Its Petroleum Economy

With natural gas reserves projected to sustain current production for fewer than 15 years, Trinidad and Tobago faces the most consequential economic question in its modern history. AI is not the whole answer. But it is a significant part of it.

Adrian Dunkley

Leadership

Barbados·Feb 10, 2026

Small Island, Big Vision: Barbados and the Case for Caribbean AI Leadership

Barbados has spent the last five years positioning itself as the Caribbean's most forward-thinking digital economy. The DCash precedent, the Bridgetown Initiative, and a literacy rate above 99% give the island real structural advantages in the AI era.

Adrian Dunkley

Guyana at the Crossroads: Building Intelligence Into a Resource Boom

Development

Guyana·Jan 15, 2026

Guyana at the Crossroads: Building Intelligence Into a Resource Boom

Guyana is now the fastest-growing economy on the planet. The question is not whether the oil money will arrive. It is whether Guyana will use this window to build something that outlasts the wells.

Adrian Dunkley

Resilience

Haiti·Dec 3, 2025

AI for the People: How Haiti Can Use Technology to Build Resilience

Haiti's story is too often told only through its crises. But Haiti is also a country of extraordinary intellectual tradition, a 10-million-strong Creole-speaking population, and a diaspora of global reach. AI has a role in the story that comes next.

Adrian Dunkley

The Dominican Republic's AI Opening: Scale, Language, and Proximity

Innovation

Dominican Republic·Nov 18, 2025

The Dominican Republic's AI Opening: Scale, Language, and Proximity

The Dominican Republic is the Caribbean's largest economy. It has 11 million people, a growing tech sector, proximity to both North and Latin America, and an AI opportunity that few in the region have fully mapped.

Adrian Dunkley

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