WASHINGTON, DC – The Washington-based Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) is hosting the 24^th annual Caribbean American Legislative Week that will allow for Caribbean Americans to advocate for their interests.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government on Friday declared a state of public emergency (SOE) in the parish of St. Catherine, citing rampant criminality and lawlessness and the need to protect citizens from escalating criminal violence.

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands – Guyana’s Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni K. Singh, has the governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) not to allow their first face-to-face meeting in two years to turn into a false sense of post-pandemic normalcy.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says it is strategically positioning the country as a globally competitive logistics hub, and an efficient investment destination in a bid to take advantage of a new wave of US multibillion-dollar investments projected for the Caribbean region, which will create myriad opportunities for economic growth and development.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The United States says it is committed to working with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic to form three high-level committees tasked with developing “immediate and concrete, joint, and near-term solutions.”

LOS ANGELES, CA – President Joe Biden has warned that democracy is under assault around the world and called on leaders of the Americas to unite and renew their conviction that democracy is not only the defining feature of American histories, but the essential ingredient to Americas’ futures.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Court of Appeal Tuesday ruled that Jamar Dwayne Bynoe, who had previously been sentenced to hang for his role in the 2010 fire at a store that resulted in the deaths of six women, return to the High Court for sentencing.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Internationally acclaimed novelist and writer, George Lamming, died on Saturday at the age of 94, just a few days shy of his 95th birthday, that he would have celebrated on June 8th.

NEW YORK, New York – A Caribbean American New York State Democratic legislator has hailed the New York State Senate’s passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (VRA) of New York which provides legal recourse for denying or abridging any individual’s right to vote.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States President Joe Biden has declared June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, saying that America’s strength has always been rooted in its diversity.

NEW YORK, New York – With the BA. 2 Omnicron subvariant now accounting for most of the sequenced cases in New York City, the First Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer at the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), Dr.  K. Torian Easterling, is recommending the drug Paxlovid for treatment of New Yorkers, including Caribbean nationals, who may have contracted the disease.  

WASHINGTON, DC – Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, on Wednesday dispatched a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to leverage the forthcoming dialogue at the Summit of the Americas to incorporate a key priority for Caribbean nations – financial access and inclusion, particularly to advance solutions to the harmful phenomenon of bank de-risking.