BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceño is asking Belizeans, who are paying more for basic food items, to bear with his administration as it joins other Caribbean nations in seeking a remedy to the high inflation caused by increased global prices for oil and gas.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – CARICOM leaders Friday said they are “shocked and saddened” by the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down at a political rally.

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.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has reiterated a call for the United States to remove its decades’ old trade and economic embargo against Cuba as a Cuban diplomat here predicts “one day we will celebrate the end of the blockade”.

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.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana –A Belizean delegation has arrived in Guyana to learn about promoting the rights and development of indigenous people through the implementation of legal mechanisms and community development policies.

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.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says his ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was elected to office on June 23rd, does not have a magic wand to fix all issues and has called on workers in the public sector to give 100 percent performance in their duties.

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.