BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Attorney General Dale Marshall says the Barbados government will delay all business in the Senate pending a decision from the High Court on whether the Upper Chamber may sit with three vacancies still to be filled.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Government of Barbados is set to receive a cash injection of US$115 million from the Government of China for the Scotland District road rehabilitation project in the east of the island.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a new advisory, calling on students in the tension-hit Ukraine to make arrangements to travel quickly if circumstances change.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley says her government is simply “doing the right” thing in amending the 55-year-old Barbados Constitution to change the qualifications for membership in both houses of Parliament.
NEW YORK, New York – Brian Benjamin, has accepted the nomination of the New York State Democratic Party to contest the position of Lieutenant Governor in New York.
NEW YORK, New York – Newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed a Caribbean-born pastor to head a newly-created Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnership (OFCP).
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica parliament has given the green light to the Terrorism Prevention (Designated Reporting Entity) (Trust and Corporate Services Providers) Order, 2022, aimed at strengthening the country’s financial and non-financial systems, while making them more robust and transparent.
NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined her New York colleagues Congresswoman Grace Meng and Congressman Ritchie Torres in lauding a US court ruling striking down a restrictive mandate requiring diversity visa applicants from the Caribbean and other places to obtain passports before they could enter a lottery to apply for the US Diversity Visa Program.
NEW YORK, New York – Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday issued a proclamation declaring a special election to fill the vacancy in the 43rd Assembly District in Brooklyn, previously held by former Caribbean American Assembly Member Diana Richardson, will be held on March 22.
NASSAU, Bahamas – Prime Minister Philip Davis says his administration does not intend to impose any new tax on the population, saying to do so would be a “last resort”.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States Embassy here says the decision to raise the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag on its compound is to call attention to efforts to advance racial equity and access to justice in the United States and worldwide.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Lawyers representing former attorney general, Adriel Brathwaite Q.C, have filed a constitutional motion asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether or not the Senate in the Barbados Parliament has been properly constituted.
NEW YORK, NY - New York City Mayor Eric Adams has added another Caribbean American to his team.
