GENEVA – The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United States Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Friday expressed deep concern about plans by the Biden administration in the United States to limit migrants from the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON, DC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has described as “a devastating failure of justice” the United States Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily prohibit termination of a public health measure, known as Title 42, to block Caribbean and other migrants from seeking asylum in the US.

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates here have welcomed a new childcare assistance program that will, for the first time in New York City’s history, provide childcare assistance to low-income families with children whose immigration status makes them ineligible for other, federally-funded subsidized childcare.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica has lost a pillar of the academic and diplomatic community following the death on Wednesday night of former ambassador to the United States, Richard Bernal.

OTTAWA – Former Haitian prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, has initiated legal proceedings before the Federal Court of Canada seeking to have a decision by the Canadian government to include his name on the list of people subject to special economic measures overturned and annulled.

OTTAWA –Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says while he does not rule out the possibility of Canada being part of a military intervention, or even leading one in Haiti, he also wants European countries to join the North American country in sanctioning political elites in Haiti over alleged ties to the violent gangs.

WASHINGTON, DC – On a day characterized by acrimonious infighting by Republicans, a powerful Democratic congressman in a heavily-concentrated Caribbean district in Brooklyn, New York has formally taken over the leadership of the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The former chief executive officer of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been extradited to the United States to face fraud charges.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt Tuesday denied bail to the disgraced former chief executive officer of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is contesting his extradition to the United States.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Andrew Holness led administration has provided law enforcement agencies in the United States with a list of names of persons overseas who are supporting criminal activities in Jamaica.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry says he hopes the international community will agree to a request for a multinational support force to assist the Haitian National Police (PNH) restore peace and security.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk says more than 1,400 people have been killed and over 1,000 kidnapped in Haiti so far this year by gangs who also use sexual violence.