Kingstown, St. Vincent, - After months of effusive eruptions and volcanic tremors, the La Soufriere volcano entered a new and explosive phase on Friday morning. Lying dormant since its last eruption in 1979, it is now sending columns of ash as high as 29,000 feet into the atmosphere. The volcano has caused more than 20,000 residents in the surrounding areas to be evacuated. 

WASHINGTON,  – United States President Joe Biden has invited two Caribbean prime ministers to his “Leaders Summit on Climate” to take place virtually at the White House on April 22 and 23.

MIAMI, CMC -The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, has written an open letter appealing to US federal authorities to refrain from deporting Haitians.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent.– . The La Soufriere volcano is continuing to erupt explosively and has now begun to generate pyroclastic density currents, the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said Monday.

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks has lauded the contribution of Ms Patricia Chin and her Husband “Randy” in both the development of Jamaica’s Reggae music genre and its promotion through their business Randy's Record Mart and VP Records.

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Consulate General of Jamaica, New York (CGNY) has recognized Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, stating that she is among “some remarkable women, who have demonstrated leadership in advancing our sustainable development agenda, as a people and as a nation.”

NEW YORK,– Clyde Jones, a prominent, award-winning, Brooklyn, New York-based Barbadian photojournalist, who worked for the Advocate and Nation newspapers in his native land, died on Saturday, his wife, Thelma, confirmed.

NEW YORK,  – New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday announced that the ruling she secured striking down the former administration’s attempt to deny food assistance to nearly 700,000 Americans, including Caribbean immigrants, by changing the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), will continue to have the force and effect of law following the dismissal of the federal government’s appeal from that ruling.

NEW YORK, CMC – Barbadian-born Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, the first president of the newly-formed Caribbean American Lawyers Association (CALA), has been bestowed the Hon. Theodore “Ted” Jones Lifetime Achievement Award by New York’s Unified Court System’s Committee to Celebrate Black History Month, The Tribune Society, Inc., and the Judicial Friends Association.

 WASHINGTON,  – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has collaborated with Georgia’s newly-elected Democratic Senator, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, in introducing H.R. 2198/S. 032, a measure previously introduced in the 116th United States Congress by then Senator Kamala Harris and Clarke, to direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of late Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for placement in the US Capitol.

NEW YORK,  – An umbrella immigration policy and advocacy organization in New York has welcomed the passage in the United States House of Representatives two ground-breaking pieces of legislation that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated four million undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants.

The Hon. Mr. Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart OJ, CD, Hon. LLD, has been honored with the Government of Saint Lucia’s third highest honor, the Saint Lucia Cross (SLC) Award.