BASSETERRE, St. Kitts –At least 32 candidates representing six political parties were nominated Tuesday in a carnival style atmosphere to contest the August 5 general election that Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris was forced to call three years ahead of the constitutional deadline.

NEW YORK, New York – The Barbadian-born Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have joined the fight to protect voting rights at the US Supreme Court by filing an amicus brief supporting Black Alabamian voters who are fighting against racially gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The main opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), Monday welcomed the announcement of the August 5 general election date, saying it brings to an end “an experiment that has been marked by scandals, corruption and greed.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Monday proposed a single-item referendum asking the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to decide whether or not to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth with a non-executive, home-grown president as head of state.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has launched its National Child Labour Policy and Strategy 2022-2025 amid concerns that an estimated five thousand children are engaged in some form of work that presents a real danger to their physical, mental, and moral well-being.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize parliament Friday approved of legislation re-instating the 10 percent cut in salaries to public servants that the John Briceño government had instituted in 2021.

NEW YORK, New York – After confirming his recall in an official letter circulated to colleagues St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the United States Howie Prince says the administration of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves did not give him any reason or reasons for his return to Kingstown.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Hundreds of people took to the streets here on Monday demanding the resignation of President Chandrikapersad ‘Chan’ Santokhi if he fails to change the socio-economic policies of his two-year old administration that they say have brought untold hardship on the population.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris Sunday night announced August 5 as the date for the long-awaited general election, telling supporters of his People’s Labour Party (PLP) that he Is “confident” of being returned to office “to continue the wonderful job we have been doing”.

NEW YORK, New York – The Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA), a unified association of Black and other minority lawyers in New York State, has announced the commencement of the term of its Jamaican-American President Carl Forbes, Jr. 

NASSAU, Bahamas – A High Court judge Monday night agreed with the Bahamas government that a strike by hundreds of airport workers was illegal and ordered them back to work.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett has lauded the passage of the Caribbean Trade Resolution (H.Res 1168) in the US House of Representatives, which reaffirms the economic partnership between the United States and the Caribbean.