BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to signal its intention to replace the Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and adopt republican status.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Friday said Dominica has not established diplomatic relations with Syria, even as he acknowledged that “earlier this week” he had been informed of that situation by Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Kenneth Darroux.

“Queens also stands in firm solidarity with all our Ukrainian American neighbors who are already in the United States, and we applaud President Biden for quickly extending Temporary Protected Status protections to those individuals,” he told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says it will use the three-day visit of the British Royal couple, to raise several issues including Jamaica becoming a republic as well as support for the Reparations Movement.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Wednesday re-shuffled his near two-year old cabinet appointing a new Attorney General and shifting some of his more senior ministers to new portfolios.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government has warned local companies to be very cautious when conducting business with any Russian entity even as the main opposition Free National Movement (FNM) called on the government to act more decisively in the interest of sovereignty.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says it will provide J$25,000 (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) in vouchers to operators of public passenger vehicles, including route taxi operators and contract carriage operators, to cushion the rising cost of fuel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke says she voted in support of omnibus legislation to fund the US Government and provide US$13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says it will cost more than J$100 billion (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) to restructure the system of public-sector compensation over the next three years.

NEW YORK, New York – Newly appointed United States ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry has endorsed Caribbean American community activist, Monique Chandler-Waterman,  as his likely successor in the 58th New York State Assembly District in Brooklyn, New York, which he has held for several years..

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Robert Montague, a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has resigned from Cabinet in the wake of a damning report from the Integrity Commission on the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) in which Montague was cited for knowingly granting a firearm permit to six people with criminal traces when he was National Security Minister.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Organization of American States (OAS) has appointed Barbadian Rosina Wiltshire, an international expert in development and gender equality, to a high-level group to promote the implementation of the recommendations of the Electoral Observation Missions (EOM) in the field of women’s political participation.