LONDON – The Deputy Chairman of the National Council on Reparations,  Bert Samuels, says Jamaica has an “enormously strong” case after the country filed a petition to Britain’s King Charles earlier this week regarding enslavement of Africans in the Caribbean island for hundreds of years.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday said he expects the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett, to remain in office as the 15-member regional grouping awaits the advisory ruling by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

WASHINGTON, DC – The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin says security and elections are the most urgent and interconnected priorities in Haiti and called on all stakeholders and the international community to accelerate efforts to restore democratic institutions through a credible electoral process.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Chairman of the Suriname’s National Reparations Commission,  Armand Zunder, says the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  country missed a golden opportunity to have independently pursued reparations for the transatlantic slave trade.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) says just over half a million voters have been registered across the country as preparations continue for the elections to be held in December this year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A senior Jamaican public official has confirmed that their United States tourist visa was revoked while they were in the country on official business, according to The Sunday Gleaner.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana and Japan are discussing ways to deepen commercial and trade ties as Guyana undergoes rapid economic transformation and expansion across all sectors.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Branch, Prem Narine, Monday told a magistrate court that Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed is a threat to national security even as the defence sought to establish that the United States extradition request is politically motivated.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana police say they have intercepted two heavily tinted motor vehicles that had earlier been “observed acting in a suspicious manner” near the private residence of President Irfaan Ali at Leonora, West Coast Demerara on Thursday night.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar who Wednesday said she expects to meet with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez later this month has expressed her “love ”  for the South American leader.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana and the United States have finalised a migration cooperation framework under which Guyana will receive a limited, vetted number of skilled and non-criminal individuals through the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Assisted Voluntary Return Programme.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The foreign ministers of Haiti and the Dominica Republic have held talks that focused on border security, combating illicit economic activities, migration issues, formalizing trade and investment, and expanding air links, according to an official statement issued here.