Fort-de-France, Martinique - Empty grocery shelves at supermarkets in Martinique is now part of the new reality as a general strike and protests sparked by mandated French COVID-19 vaccine measures drag on.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Sir James Mitchell, the second Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, died on Tuesday, his family has confirmed. He was 90 years old.

CHANTILLY, Virginia – When Jamaican-born Winsome Sears assumes office on January 15, 2022, she will become the first woman lieutenant governor of Virginia. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Tuesday became the fourth English-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and sworn in Dame Sandra Mason as the island’s first President with a 21-gun salute.

NEW YORK, New York – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the company that oversees the running of trains and buses in New York, has formally renamed the Newkirk Avenue subway station in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in honor of Haitian immigrants.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The United States government is urging American citizens to leave Haiti now while they can still get flights, as the Caribbean nation remains in crisis.

PARIS, France (Reuters) – France is willing to discuss autonomy for the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe if it is in the interests of the people who live there, government minister Sebastien Lecornu says.

NEW YORK, New York – In an 11-mile march, Caribbean and other immigrant New Yorkers marched from Manhattan to Brooklyn demanding a pathway to US citizenship.

LONDON, England - A UK deportation flight that was set to fly to Jamaica with some 50 deportees today went without most of its passengers as activists blocked the road in front of a detention center and lawyers obtained short term stays.

PARIS, France (Reuters) – Authorities on the Caribbean island of Martinique ordered a curfew on Thursday after protesters looted shops and set up burning barricades as demonstrations against COVID-19 protocols spread across France’s overseas’ territories.

NEW YORK, New York – A Haitian-born legislator has spearheaded an initiative to rename a huge section of a street in Brooklyn in honor of his late compatriot, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, who also founded Chicago.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Family, former colleagues and friends on Friday paid their last respects to Caribbean American four-star General Colin L. Powell, who died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, from complications of COVID-19.