OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Haitian counterpart, Garry Conille, have agreed on the importance of working closely with the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) and taking the “appropriate steps” toward holding free and fair elections in the violence-wracked, beleaguered French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre says his government will use a US$5.5 million US dollar grant from Taiwan to undertake projects that will be beneficial to St. Lucians.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica celebrated its 62nd anniversary of political independence from Britain on Tuesday with its main political leaders expressing different position regarding the future direction of the country.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP)says it will no longer pursue legal action challenging the decision taken by Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC) to conduct a voter identification card replacement program instead of a complete re-registration exercise.

NEW YORK, New York – A day after Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States, a major Caribbean-American Democratic political club in Brooklyn, New York, of which Clarke serves as an executive member, has thrown its full support behind Harris’s bid for the presidency. 

WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the Humanitarian Parole program, which allows 30,000 people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Haiti to live and work here for two years, was the victim of massive fraud . As a result, then program has been suspended temporarily.

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Voters in the Sandys North constituency will go to the polls in a by-election on October 4 to elect a parliamentary representative after former attorney general and minister of legal affairs and constitutional reform, Kathy-Lynn Simmons, announced her resignation last week.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean nationals in the diaspora are pushing ahead with plans to have Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican national, elected as the next president of the United States.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The United States is looking at pushing new partnerships and better aligning trade policies with Guyana and other countries within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has formally asked the United States for assistance in implementing a series of charges  against New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has issued instructions for the development of a national plan by April 2025, to build resilience within the agriculture sector.

WASHINGTON, DC – A failed resolution demanding electoral transparency in last Sunday’s presidential elections in Venezuela, has underscored the division within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries on their relationship with Caracas.