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.

NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) Commissioner Manuel Castro on Wednesday announced an additional US$1.6.5 million in funding for Fiscal Year 2023 to help newly-arrived Haitians access immigration legal assistance and numerous social services.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Justice Minister, Delroy Chuck, is encouraging Jamaicans to break the culture of silence and speak out against wrong doing in an effort to solve crime on the island.

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. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Guo Haiyan, says a documentary by a US-based media outlet, VICE News is intended to smear relations between Beijing and Georgetown and that trade between the two countries has grown by 213 percent over the past five years, reaching US$710 million in 2021.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize says it will not allow charter flights from Haiti to land in the country warning also it is prepared to reverse provisions of allowing Haitians to come to the country without a visa.

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.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris has named eight candidates to contest general elections in St. Kitts-Nevis even though he has not yet announced a date for the poll that has been forced upon him following the collapse of his coalition Team Unity government.

NEW YORK, New York – Early voting started on Saturday for a number of Caribbean American candidates seeking public offices in New York Democratic Primary on June 28th. 

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.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali has dismissed calls from the opposition for Vice President Bharat Jagdeo to step aside or be fired to allow a probe into the allegations of corruption leveled against him by a Chinese businessman.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government has approved the National Diaspora Policy and a plan of action to implement the strategies identified is currently being drafted, Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Leslie Campbell, has said.