Five Caribbean nations face possible US travel restrictions under Trump

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NewsdeskMarch 15, 2025

Five Caribbean na­tions—Saint Lu­cia, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Do­mini­ca, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Cu­ba—have been in­clud­ed in a pro­posed list of coun­tries fac­ing po­ten­tial trav­el re­stric­tions un­der the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to The New York Times, the pro­pos­al de­vel­oped by diplo­mat­ic and se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials cat­e­goris­es coun­tries in­to three lev­els of re­stric­tions: a “red” list of 11 na­tions whose cit­i­zens would be flat­ly barred from en­ter­ing the Unit­ed States, in­clud­ing Cu­ba and Venezuela; an “or­ange” list of 10 coun­tries for which trav­el would be re­strict­ed but not cut off; and a “yel­low” list of 22 na­tions, in­clud­ing the four East­ern Caribbean na­tions, which would be giv­en 60 days to clear up per­ceived de­fi­cien­cies, with the threat of be­ing moved to one of the oth­er lists if they did not com­ply.

The rea­sons for the cat­e­gori­sa­tion of the coun­tries were not giv­en, but The New York Times re­port said con­cerns may in­clude in­ad­e­quate se­cu­ri­ty prac­tices for is­su­ing pass­ports, in­suf­fi­cient in­for­ma­tion-shar­ing on trav­ellers, or sell­ing of cit­i­zen­ship to peo­ple from banned coun­tries