The Monthly Intelligence Report

A monthly read on AI in the Caribbean

One Note from the President. One feature from a rotating bench of eight contributors. Twenty-one issues from August 2024 to April 2026. Tips, thought leadership, policy, and the questions the region needs to keep asking.

Latest Issue

The Caribbean Climate-AI Opportunity in 2026

Issue 21Opportunity

April 2026

The Caribbean Climate-AI Opportunity in 2026

A clear-eyed reading of the forty-two billion dollar climate-AI market, where the Caribbean is being out-positioned, and the three positions our founders, institutions, and ministries should take this year.

Lisette Boucher

Earlier Issues

Calling In Caribbean Women: A March Action Plan

Issue 20

Action Plan·Mar 2026

Calling In Caribbean Women: A March Action Plan

An audience-by-audience action plan for the work of moving Caribbean women into the rooms where AI is being built, deployed, and governed. Written for the women already in the field, the institutions hosting them, the men around them, and the diaspora.

Aisha Mohan

Heart Data Belongs to Patients: A Policy Position

Issue 19

Policy·Feb 2026

Heart Data Belongs to Patients: A Policy Position

CAIRA's 2026 position on cardiac AI in Caribbean clinical care. Patient data ownership, portability, layered consent, and a value-return obligation for secondary use of Caribbean patient data.

Andre Beaumont

Five Workflows Worth Building in Your Caribbean Business This Year

Issue 18

Tips·Jan 2026

Five Workflows Worth Building in Your Caribbean Business This Year

Five concrete agent-supported workflows the Caribbean small and mid-sized business should build in 2026, in order, with tools, costs, and expected outcomes.

Dr. Marcus Charles

Issue 17

Reflection·Dec 2025

The Year of the Agent

A reported year-end reflection from San Fernando on how agent systems arrived in Caribbean offices in 2025, what they changed, and what they did not.

Naila Rampersad

The Quiet Men: AI, Movember, and Caribbean Masculinity

Issue 16

Reflection·Nov 2025

The Quiet Men: AI, Movember, and Caribbean Masculinity

On the kinds of Caribbean masculinity that current consumer health technology fails to reach, why the gap matters in prostate cancer and cardiovascular outcomes, and what design patterns might begin to close it.

Hector Ramirez-Diaz

A Citizen's Checklist for Evaluating an AI Medical Tool

Issue 15

Tips·Oct 2025

A Citizen's Checklist for Evaluating an AI Medical Tool

Seven plain-language questions any Caribbean patient, nurse, or family member can ask about an AI medical tool. What it does, who decides, where it was validated, what it does when it is wrong, and who is accountable.

Kwame Stevens

Pediatric Oncology and the Caribbean Data Gap

Issue 14

Research·Sep 2025

Pediatric Oncology and the Caribbean Data Gap

Why Caribbean children are largely absent from the global pediatric oncology data sets training the next generation of AI clinical tools, and a five-step regional plan to put them on the map.

Dr. Yolande Pierre-Louis

One Year In: What CAIRA Learned, Where We Go Next

Issue 13

Thought Leadership·Aug 2025

One Year In: What CAIRA Learned, Where We Go Next

An honest one-year review of the Association, the regional industry context after GPT-5, and the three dynamics that will shape Caribbean AI through 2026.

Lisette Boucher

Issue 12

Policy·Jul 2025

The Case for a CARICOM AI Charter

Why fifteen national strategies will lose to one regional baseline. The shape of the Charter, what is in it, what is not, and the three open questions still under member comment.

Andre Beaumont

Bridges, Not Brain Drain: A Diaspora Call to Action

Issue 11

Action Plan·Jun 2025

Bridges, Not Brain Drain: A Diaspora Call to Action

Why Caribbean diaspora technical capacity does not flow back the way Indian or Israeli diaspora capacity does, and the three structured programmes CAIRA is putting in place to change that.

Aisha Mohan

What My Mother Taught Me About Trusting Machines

Issue 10

Reflection·May 2025

What My Mother Taught Me About Trusting Machines

A reported piece from a porch in San Fernando on what a seventy-one year old Caribbean mother actually uses a chat interface for, what she does not, and what the AI industry should learn from her.

Naila Rampersad

A Practical AI Playbook for the 2025 Hurricane Season

Issue 09

Tips·Apr 2025

A Practical AI Playbook for the 2025 Hurricane Season

A four-phase field guide to using AI tools well before, during, and after an Atlantic hurricane. Concrete cautions on what these tools are not for.

Dr. Marcus Charles

A Curriculum for Caribbean Women Who Want to Build

Issue 08

Curriculum·Mar 2025

A Curriculum for Caribbean Women Who Want to Build

Six months of structured learning to move a Caribbean woman from being a user of AI to being a builder. The tools, the order, the time, and the four directions you can take at the end.

Kwame Stevens

Issue 07

Reflection·Feb 2025

Whose History Trains the Model

On the slow bias of perspective in the language models now educating Caribbean children, why the Berbice uprising is a paragraph in their training data, and what the Caribbean intellectual tradition has to say about it.

Hector Ramirez-Diaz

When the Best Open Model Came Out of Hangzhou

Issue 06

Opportunity·Jan 2025

When the Best Open Model Came Out of Hangzhou

What the DeepSeek R1 release changes for the unit economics of every Caribbean AI build, the data sovereignty question for our regulated industries, and where capital should now flow.

Lisette Boucher

Issue 05

Reflection·Dec 2024

The Year We Did Not See Coming

A reported year-end reflection from a kitchen in San Fernando on the year a seventy-eight year old auntie started using ChatGPT, and what it meant for the rest of us.

Naila Rampersad

After November: A Second Trump Term and Caribbean AI Policy

Issue 04

Policy·Nov 2024

After November: A Second Trump Term and Caribbean AI Policy

Three implications for the Caribbean of the US policy turn on AI, three openings worth taking, and the first-quarter work CAIRA recommends to its members and to the region.

Andre Beaumont

Reading the Mammogram: AI Imaging and the Caribbean Detection Gap

Issue 03

Research·Oct 2024

Reading the Mammogram: AI Imaging and the Caribbean Detection Gap

Why the Caribbean's mammography pipeline is the limiting factor, not the AI, and a four-step regional path to the deployment of validated AI second readers in Caribbean screening programmes.

Dr. Yolande Pierre-Louis

The Chatbot at 2am: AI on the Caribbean Crisis Line

Issue 02

Concern·Sep 2024

The Chatbot at 2am: AI on the Caribbean Crisis Line

What Caribbean parents, teachers, clinicians, and ministries should do about the fact that our young people are talking to chatbots about their mental health at 2am, and a regional position on the providers behind them.

Aisha Mohan

Getting Started With Generative AI: A Field Guide for Caribbean Businesses

Issue 01

Tips·Aug 2024

Getting Started With Generative AI: A Field Guide for Caribbean Businesses

A pragmatic first guide for the Caribbean business owner asking whether to start with generative AI, which tool to pick, how to prompt it, and where to draw the line on data.

Dr. Marcus Charles

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