KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness is leading Jamaicans in paying tribute to theatre icon and pioneering broadcaster, Leonie Forbes, who died on Tuesday. She was 85.

MIAMI, FL – The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) says it has transported “vital” security equipment to Haiti in response to a request for international assistance from the Haitian government to deal with the security situation.

SOUTHCOM said that a US Air Force C-17 airplane, based at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, transported the security equipment to Port-au-Prince.

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates in New York have decried a United States federal appeals court ruling in New Orleans that puts in further limbo the status of over a million Caribbean and other immigrants brought to the US as children. 

MIAMI, FL – The Miami-based United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) says the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort has been deployed to Latin America and the Caribbean to provide medical assistance as part of its “Continuing Promise” mission.

NEW YORK, New York– The spiraling cost of living, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and high unemployment rates, have made it difficult for many Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean to rebuild their lives and integrate into society, a UN report issued on Wednesday has revealed.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) says Jamaican hotelier and businessman, Kevin Hendrickson, has been named as the Caribbean Hotelier of the Year.

AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agency says it has apprehended 64 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on Mona Island, off Puerto Rico.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Chairman of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE), Dr. Horace Chang, says the United States has given a commitment to the region that it will work towards stemming the flow of illegal firearms into the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON, DC –A former United States ambassador to Haiti says it is time to throw away the gloves and stop pretending that "normal” diplomacy will work in Haiti.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has denounced a federal district judge ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, saying that it “cruelly endangers” the lives of millions of immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has launched the Institute for Immigration Integration Research & Policy to help immigrants transition to community life, further education, and the workforce.

Alferita ‘Rita’ Marley, OD, OJ, LITT, will receive the Jamaica Consulate General’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Consul General Oliver Mair will present the prestigious honor at the premier performance of the National Dance Theatre Company at the South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay, Florida.