CASTRIES, St. Lucia – St. Lucians go to the polls on Monday to elect a new government in an election that some political observers say is just too close to call and could even result in a possible coalition.
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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Karl Samuda has pledged to grow the Overseas Employment Programme to 30,000 participants over the next four years.
Senator James Sanders Jr. had introduced numerous bills during this past legislative session, which ended yesterday, that passed both the Senate and the Assembly. They cover all aspects of life including health, economic development, criminal justice, military affairs, the environment and much more.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has held talks with Chinese President, XI Jinping with the two countries committing themselves to strengthening their 44-year-old relationship.
NEW YORK, New York – Several Haitian American legislators and groups in New York have called on the Joe Biden administration to “create an easier pathway” for Haitians seeking political asylum in the United States.
BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize National Teachers Union (BTNU) has gone to court challenging the government decision to reduce the salaries of its members by 10 per cent.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –Haiti remains in a state of political uncertainty as the planned ceremony to swear in the President of the Senate, Joseph Lambert, as the new head of state to replace the assassinated Jovenel Moise, had been postponed indefinitely.
MIAMI-DADE – Commissioners Kionne L. McGhee and Jean Monestime are urging U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration to pursue additional measures to secure peace and a corruption-free election in Haiti after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
NEW YORK, New York– Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Saturday denounced a United States federal judge’s ruling in Texas making unlawful a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of undocumented young Caribbean adults and others from deportation.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative for Haiti has acknowledged the legitimacy of Prime Minister Claude Joseph to lead the French-speaking Caribbean nation following the “cowardly” assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday, and welcomed his government’s commitment to hold national elections later this year.
MIAMI-DADE – At NACo’s 2021 Annual Business Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., from July 9-12, 2021, the National Association of Counties announced that Vice Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert, III has been appointed to serve as the Vice Chairman of the Health Steering Committee and Resilient Counties Advisory Board Committee.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it rejects “completely the attempts by certain unprincipled forces” to reverse the Cuban Revolution and urged calm and peace in the Caribbean country following protests there last weekend.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti– President Jovenel Moise has named his seventh prime minister since coming to office in 2017.
