KINGSTON, Jamaica – Senators from the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), on Friday maintained their stance and voted against an extension of the states of emergency declared in seven parishes islandwide.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has defended his decision to call a snap general election on December 6, two years ahead of the constitutional deadline, dismissing opposition allegations that he is moving towards establishing a dictatorship government in Dominica.

WASHINGTON, DC - Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Her Excellency Audrey Marks has extended congratulations to a number of winning candidates of Jamaican heritage in last Tuesday’s mid-term elections in the United States.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Eight months after he was arrested in the United States, former Prime Minister Andrew Fahie has written a farewell letter to his former colleagues of the House of Assembly, urging them to keep fighting for the prosperity of the territory and focus on the areas that unite them as Virgin Islanders.

NEW YORK, New York – Over 80 Guyanese nationals, including legislators, lawyers, community activists and trade unionists, have written to United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, requesting that the Joe Biden administration intervene urgently in addressing what they describe as “escalating social, racial, economic and political injustices” against Afro-Guyanese and others who do not support the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Cabinet has approved the setting up of a Constitutional Reform Committee, which will play a key role in ensuring Jamaica’s smooth transition to a republic, Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has disclosed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Government is moving to prepare legislation that will provide stiffer penalties for murder, says Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

OTTAWA, Canada – Three Haitian politicians have been slapped with sanctions imposed by the Canadian government. 

BELMOPAN, Belize – Former government minister, John Birchman Saldivar, has described as “left field, baseless, and malicious,” the arguments put forward by the United States government for imposing sanctions on him and members of his family amid allegations of his alleged involvement in “significant corruption”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has formalized a major multi-agency effort to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and transnational organized crime in the fisheries sector.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaicans are being encouraged to submit written submissions on the Bail Bill by Wednesday, November 30 with the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, saying that rewriting the legislation has resulted in the preservation of the established common law rules as well as some modifications.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has brushed aside calls by the opposition for President Charles Savarin to rescind the writ for the December 6 snap general elections, insisting that the polls will go ahead two years ahead of the constitutional deadline.