ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging Dominica to go out and cast their ballots in the December 6 general election that he has called two years ahead of the constitutional deadline, even though the main opposition parties continue to urge their supporters to stay away.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceño has returned from an official visit to Venezuela signing a joint declaration committing to strengthening the close bonds of friendship and solidarity between the two countries.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says it will consider imposing states of emergencies (SOE) in seven parishes across the island, even as the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) insists there is no reason for the government to suspend the basic human rights of half the Jamaican population where states of emergency have been declared.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – Members of Parliament on Friday elected Katherine Ebanks-Wilks as the new speaker  following a vote held during a special meeting of the house.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Senators from the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), on Friday maintained their stance and voted against an extension of the states of emergency declared in seven parishes islandwide.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Eight months after he was arrested in the United States, former Prime Minister Andrew Fahie has written a farewell letter to his former colleagues of the House of Assembly, urging them to keep fighting for the prosperity of the territory and focus on the areas that unite them as Virgin Islanders.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Government is moving to prepare legislation that will provide stiffer penalties for murder, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has formalized a major multi-agency effort to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and transnational organized crime in the fisheries sector.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has defended his decision to call a snap general election on December 6, two years ahead of the constitutional deadline, dismissing opposition allegations that he is moving towards establishing a dictatorship government in Dominica.

NEW YORK, New York – Over 80 Guyanese nationals, including legislators, lawyers, community activists and trade unionists, have written to United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, requesting that the Joe Biden administration intervene urgently in addressing what they describe as “escalating social, racial, economic and political injustices” against Afro-Guyanese and others who do not support the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

OTTAWA, Canada – Three Haitian politicians have been slapped with sanctions imposed by the Canadian government. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans are being encouraged to submit written submissions on the Bail Bill by Wednesday, November 30 with the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, saying that rewriting the legislation has resulted in the preservation of the established common law rules as well as some modifications.