PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Senate has approved a resolution urging Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry to postpone his request calling for international partners to immediately deploy specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity to stop the crisis across the country caused partly by the criminal actions of armed gangs.

NEW YORK, New York –New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams, has welcomed the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon past federal marijuana possession convictions.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar, Friday described the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) national budget presented to the Parliament early this week as “a vicious frontal attack on the poor and working class” and called for a general election.

WASHINGTON, DC – Florida Democrat, Val Demings, has introduced the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2022 to the House of Representatives that would require the US Department of State to investigate the nature of the relationship between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti, and to submit an annual report to Congress on that topic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A new Bail Act that Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte said will strike the right balance between the rights of Jamaicans and national security needs was laid in Parliament on Wednesday.

NEW York, New York – The Barbados government, faced with the financial fallout from the cost of living, debt and climate crises, has unveiled its “Bridgetown Agenda” as a guide for urgent and decisive transformation of the international financial system.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says his administration is prepared to lease an aircraft if Caribbean governments are unable to sort out the regional transportation sector by yearend.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former finance minister, Karen Nunez-Tesheira, has announced her intention to challenge Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley for the leadership of the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) when the internal elections are held on December 4.

UNITED NATIONS – Stating that, over the decades, Trinidad and Tobago has anchored its multilateral engagement on the founding purposes and principles of the United Nations, Foreign Affairs Minister Amery Browne on Saturday called on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its invasion of Ukraine. 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it is taken aback by the latest travel advisory issued by the United States that urges Americans to stay away from the capital given that violence and shootings occur regularly.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) budget presented to Parliament late last month, telling legislators it was the best allocation of the available resources.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has led 33 of her congressional colleagues in a letter to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus expressing “grave concern” over the administration’s detainment and deportation policies.