GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – Guyana police Sunday said that a secondary school girl who allegedly caused the death of 19 of her schoolmates when she set the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School, 100 miles west of here,  ablaze last Monday, will be charged with murder.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have called for expedited work authorization for asylum seekers who have been arriving in New York City from the country’s southern border states on an almost daily basis.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Police say they will send a file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on Wednesday after indicating that the deadly fire at the dormitory at a secondary school that resulted in 19 students being killed had been started by a female student.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana and the United States have made significant achievements in the area of business, with bilateral trade between the two countries tripling to over US$3 Billion under US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, on Wednesday urged Mayor Eric Adams to scrap reported plans to house asylum seekers at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in Queens, New York.

NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has launched the city’s first asylum seeker arrival center as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in NYC daily. Adams also announced the placement of what will be the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.

MIAMI, FL – The United States Coast Guard says the termination of Title 42 public health order does not alter the maritime migration policies for migrants, saying the measure never applied to migrants interdicted at sea.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday joined her California counterpart, Linda T. Sánchez, in introducing in the United States House of Representatives the US Citizenship Act of 2023 that Clarke described as “a bold, inclusive and humane vision for the future of the United States immigration system.”

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has urged regional tourism officials to set the pace regarding the ownership of the Caribbean’s major foreign exchange earner.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Premier Natalio Wheatley says the United States should do more to help the British Virgin Islands to stem the flow of guns.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer on Wednesday announced the confirmation of a Jamaican-American to serve as a district judge on the prestigious United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY).

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Two men were killed during a shootout with police after gunmen fired upon and set fire to a police station in Pikin Saron, south of the capital, on Tuesday.