Read the Caribbean's press
Caribbean Newspapers Online
Newspapers, news sites and TV from every Caribbean island and CARICOM state
23 countries · 323 newspapers · 11 Caribbean-wide outlets
The Caribbean is the most fragmented press region in the world: two dozen small markets, four colonial languages, and islands whose national daily may run to a dozen pages. It is also unusually well served — most territories have at least one independent paper, and the regional wire has been stitching them together since the 1970s.
Pick an island to read its own papers, or start with the Caribbean-wide outlets further down. The CARICOM mainland states — Belize, Guyana and Suriname — and Bermuda are included: geographically they sit outside the island chain, but they share the region's institutions and its press.
Browse by island & country
Grouped by island chain, then alphabetically. The number on each card is how many newspapers, news sites and TV channels that page lists.
Greater Antilles & the Bahamas
7 countriesThe region's largest markets — Spanish in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, French and Creole in Haiti, English in Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Caymans.
Leeward Islands
4 countriesSmall English-language markets in the northern Lesser Antilles, several of them British Overseas Territories.
Windward Islands & the southern Caribbean
6 countriesBarbados and Trinidad hold the region's strongest independent dailies; the Windwards run compact weekly and online presses.
Dutch Caribbean
2 countriesPapiamento and Dutch titles serving Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire.
CARICOM mainland & Bermuda
4 countriesCaribbean by institution rather than geography — English in Belize, Guyana and Bermuda, Dutch and Sranan Tongo in Suriname.
Caribbean-wide news & wire services
Regional institutions, business & sport
Frequently asked questions
- Which Caribbean countries have daily newspapers?
- Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Suriname, the Bahamas and Bermuda all publish daily papers. Most of the smaller islands run weeklies or online-only news sites instead — the market simply is not large enough for a daily — and those are listed on each island's page alongside its TV and radio newsrooms.
- What languages is the Caribbean press published in?
- English across the Commonwealth Caribbean, Spanish in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, French and Haitian Creole in Haiti, and Dutch plus Papiamento in Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. Suriname publishes in Dutch. Several islands also carry English-language editions aimed at visitors and the diaspora.
- Why are Belize, Guyana, Suriname and Bermuda on a Caribbean page?
- They are Caribbean by institution rather than geography. Belize, Guyana and Suriname are full CARICOM members and Bermuda is an associate member; all four take the regional wire and share the region's courts, exams and cricket team. Their newspapers read as part of the Caribbean press, so they are grouped here even though the map files them under Central, South and North America.
- Is there a Caribbean-wide newspaper?
- No single daily covers the whole region, which is what the shelf above is for. CANA has been the shared wire since 1976, Caribbean News Global and Caribbean Journal report region-wide, and CARICOM Today and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank publish the institutional news that crosses every border.
Caribbean newsrooms are small and the web has hit them hard: several titles that printed for decades now publish online only, and a few have gone altogether. Where a paper's website has disappeared, its entry stays on the island's page as a retired listing rather than being deleted, so the record of what a territory once published survives.
The flip side is that the region digitised early. Most islands' main outlet is free to read with no paywall, radio newsrooms publish full bulletins online, and the diaspora press in New York, Toronto and London — some of it listed above — often carries island news the local papers cannot afford to chase.