NEW YORK, New York – Several Caribbean legislators and advocacy groups have denounced New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s budget modification plan that they say will result in major cuts throughout various city agencies. 

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne Monday night announced January 18, 2023 as the date for fresh general elections in Antigua and Barbuda and urged supporters to ensure that his government is returned to power.

KINGSTON, Jamaica  – Prime Minister Andrew Holness said his administration is close to implementing the islandwide rollout of the National Identification System (NIDS).

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceño Monday announced that the Belize government has negotiated more than a quarter billion dollar (One Belize dollar=US$0.49 cents) reduction in the debt owed to Venezuela under the PetroCaribe initiative.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Monday night announced a 13-member Cabinet, less than a week after his ruling Dominica Labour Party (DLP) comfortably won the general election that was boycotted by the major opposition parties here.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has paid tribute to 12 countries with which the nation celebrates 60 years of diplomatic relations since 1962.

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago – Watson Duke, leader of Tobago’s ruling party, the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP), has written to the Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Abby Taylor demanding that she declare vacant the seats of 13 members who resigned from the party.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Cuba has accepted an offer from the CARICOM to join the Ministerial Task Force on Agriculture, according to a statement issued here by the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat.

WASHINGTON, DC, - Prime Minister Andrew Holness arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a five-day visit, from 6th -10th December, and was met on arrival at the Ronald Reagan International Airport by Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States HE Audrey Marks.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), and the Brooklyn Democratic Party Leader, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, have welcomed the US government’s decision to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti for an additional 18 months.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – CARICOM will be fielding an Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to the Commonwealth of Dominica to monitor the General Elections to be held on Tuesday, December 6,

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent - The Biden administration in the United States has been called on to stop spreading false information about the government and people of Cuba.