PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Sunday acknowledged that the country had been “blindsided” by the operations of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) amid media reports that the former head of the agency, who had been on administrative leave since March 2, has been detained by police.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean-American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke and the other co-chairs of the Haiti Caucus in the United States House of Representatives, as well as their congressional colleagues, on Wednesday renewed their call for urgent US action in addressing the growing crisis in Haiti. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - The former president of the Haitian senate, Edgard Leblanc Fils, was on Tuesday named as the president of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) as efforts continue restore peace and security.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said he has alerted the relevant authorities of continued aggressions by Venezuela, including the buildup of troops at the shared border.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police have detained a 29-year-old man, whom they say is a suspect in the mass shootings in the west of the island last weekend, resulting in the deaths of four people and injuries to several others.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The National Union of Haitian Police Officers (SYNAPOHA) is calling on the recently installed Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) to give priority to security issues in the country.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti on Monday began the search for a new prime minister in keeping with the agreement reached on April 3 this year allowing for the establishment of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) that is tasked with ending the political and socio-economic crisis.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The presidential candidate for the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Miguel Vargas Maldonado,  on Friday reiterated his position of rejection of attempts to install refugee camps for Haitians in the country

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – A new provisional government was sworn in on Thursday in Haiti, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos.

DOVER, Delaware - Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness was on Friday awarded an honourary Doctor of Humane Letters by the Delaware State University, a privately governed, state-assisted historically black land-grant research university in Dover, Delaware.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Fanmi Lavalas political party of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, is threatening to withdraw from the presidential transition council (CPT) if Fritz Bélizaire is not removed as prime minister.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti’s coalition criminal gangs have decided to ramp up violence in a move to deter the newly appointed Transitional Presidential Council (CPT)  from taking office, amid fears that the political and socio-economic crisis will continue to haunt Haiti.