KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says it intends to spend an estimated J$2.7 billion (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) to provide support to citizens who are most adversely affected by the high cost of living.

NEW YORK, New York – Two Caribbean American legislators have expressed their elation at Thursday’s  swearing-in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the country.

KIGALI, Rwanda – Baroness Patricia Scotland Friday successfully retained her post as the Commonwealth Secretary General, despite a strong effort by several members of the 54-nation grouping to remove her.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States President Joseph Biden has bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom honor on a Jamaican nurse, who was the first person in the United States to have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed and infected millions of Americans since 2020.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda Parliament will meet early next week to discuss abortion rights issues with the government hinting that the session would allow for “some altering” of the law as it relates to abortion.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on Saturday welcomed President Joseph Biden’s signing into law a bipartisan gun measure aimed at preventing dangerous people from accessing firearms, bringing to an end almost three decades of stalemate in the federal Legislature over how to address gun violence in the country. 

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – CARICOM to send a delegation to Haiti, the French-speaking member of the regional integration grouping still grappling with socio-economic and political issues, particularly after the July 7th, 2021 assassination of the President Jovenel Moïse.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada –Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Thursday named an 11-nember Cabinet , one week after his National Democratic Congress (NDC) won the general election in Grenada.

BASSTERRE, St. Kitts – The main opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) is calling on the government to remove all travel restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic so as to allow citizens to return home to vote in the pending general elections.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Information Minister Symon de Nobriga has dismissed as “fake news” reports being circulated on social media that Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, who returned here after a lengthy visit to the United states was being investigated by US authorities on money laundering.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Former prime minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has vowed that his six New National Party (NNP) legislators will play “a constructive role” as opposition to the newly elected government of Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Attorney Dickon Mitchell was sworn in as Grenada’s ninth Prime Minister on Friday, pledging to end nepotism, reform the electoral system and work for the betterment of the tri-island state.