BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ Constitution and its Parliament are set to undergo reform in the coming months as the government moves to make them more relevant to current demands.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley Monday announced a new cabinet, while offering two seats in the Senate to the opposition parties as she begins a new five-year term in government following her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) whitewash of its adversaries in the January 19 general election.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia –Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre Monday appealed to young people not to settle “their differences with the power of the gun” as he appealed for an end to the criminal activities confronting St. Lucia.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Local government elections have been postponed for a further 12 months, to be held no later than February 2023.

NEW YORK, New York – Newly-elected New York City Council Speaker. Adrienne Adams. has appointed a number of Caribbean American legislators in Brooklyn to top leadership position on the Council.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) Monday said that just over 266, 000 people are eligible to cast ballots in Wednesday’s general election that Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called 18 months ahead of the constitutional deadline.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The main opposition Free National Movement (FNM) has called for the resignation of Prime Minister Philip Davis claiming that he had broken quarantine rules set by his administration last month in order to collect Christmas gifts.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The main opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP), will be electing a new president in April, following the party’s devastating loss in Wednesday’s  general election Speaking to the media on Friday , the DLP’s interim president, Steve Blackett in confirming the resignation of Verla De Peiza as president, added that a special conference will be held in mid-April to elect a new president.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke said on Friday that she “proudly voted” for passage of the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the United States of Representatives.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Opposition Leader, Patrick Faber, has resigned his position as well as that of the leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) amid a domestic violence row that led to the police issuing a warrant for his arrest last week.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Mia Mottley was sworn in as Prime Minister on Thursday afternoon, announcing that until she swears in her Cabinet next week, she will take responsibility for the health portfolio amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate has passed the “Haiti Development, Accountability, and Institutional Transparency Initiative Act,”, or HR. 2471, which measures the progress of post-disaster recovery and promotes efforts to address corruption, governance, rule of law and media freedoms in the French-speaking Caribbean country.