WASHINGTON, DC – The Donald Trump administration has reaffirmed the strength of its partnership with the Trinidad and Tobago government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, as tension rises between the United States and Venezuela over the deployment of US military forces in the Caribbean Sea allegedly to combat narco-trafficking.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – An estimated 757,690 listed eligible voters are schedule to cast ballots on Monday in Guyana’s general and regional elections that officials say the results of which will not be known until September 4.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO) is warning that the decision by the United States to increase Trinidad and Tobago’s reciprocal tariff rate from 10 to 15, could result in the most severe, absolute impact upon any of the 15 member Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Forty-five year-old Mohamed Irfaan Ali was on Sunday sworn into office as Guyana’s  head of state a second consecutive five-year term,  after the country’s  electoral  commission (GECOM) late on Saturday night declared the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) as the winner of the September 1 general and regional elections.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is strongly defending the Governor of the Federal Reserve, Dr. Lisa Cook after United States President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he had fired her.

MIAMI, FL  – A weakening Hurricane Erin is moving closer towards Bermuda as weather officials are keeping an eye on the two weather patterns that could affect the region over the next seven days.

Kingston, Jamaica -Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has become the Jamaica Labour Party's first political leader to win three consecutive terms  in office as the JLP won September 3rd’s general elections, though with a significantly reduced margin than the previous election.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has action to stop United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) “alarming practice” of making arrests of immigrants in federal immigration courthouses.

MIAMI, FL – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida says Jamaican-American rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced on Friday to 42 months in federal prison by US District Judge David S. Leibowitz in connection with a US$1 million fraud scheme. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers are urging the United States to provide an assurance that any military action aimed at Venezuela will not threaten regional stability or occur without prior consultation and warning.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali has warned that the rising military tension between Venezuela the United States could destabilize the region and challenge the country’s sovereignty.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Government of Grenada says it has taken note of the imposition of visa restrictions on government officials by the US government.