GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana and Barbados are hoping that closer relationship with the state of Roraima in Brazil, will serve as a lucrative partner in the CARICOM effort to secure food security and significantly reduce the region’s multi-billion dollar food import bill.

NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a comprehensive plan to support families seeking asylum, including those from the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana Thursday sought to further deepen their existing relations as the two CARICOM countries rolled out a menu of items ranging from energy to tourism as well as agriculture on which they said they would seek to become “global” players collectively.

NEW YORK, New York – Haitian American Civil Court Judge, Dweynie E. Paul, says she’s “humbled” to be officially nominated among 12 judges to run on the Kings County (Brooklyn) Democratic Party’s line in the 2022 election for open bench seats in New York State Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke says she was “elated” to vote on Friday for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has pointed to the importance of historical monuments, saying that while there is a tendency to downplay the building of monuments, they are important historical reminders which should be viewed and treated with respect.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The leader of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding has praised the commitment of legislator, Lisa Hanna, to Jamaica, following her shocking announcement that she was leaving representational politics.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The newly elected Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis, Dr. Terrance Drew says his government will move to implement electoral reform in the twin-island Federation amid criticism over the lengthy delay in the announcement of results of general elections here.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government has confirmed that it spent an estimated J$18.2 million (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) in the failed campaign to get Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith elected as the new Commonwealth Secretary general earlier this year.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Organization of American States (OAS) is pleading for urgency to continue working to increase security in Haiti and to begin the democratization process.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Dr. Terrance Michael Drew was sworn in Saturday as the fourth Prime Minister of this twin island Federation after leading his St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) to victory in Friday’s snap general election.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Seven years after being booted out of office, the main opposition St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) is heading back into the corridors of power winning six of the 11 contested seats on the twin island Federation.