PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has quietly carried out a minor re-shuffle of her cabinet less than six months after winning the April 28 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agriculture ministers meet here on Tuesday focusing on a wide range of issues including the status and trends in fisheries and aquaculture production, trade, and employment; initiatives to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and a new grievance redress mechanism for the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM).

UNITED NATIONS – Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council President Anthony Franck Laurent Sai Cyr on Thursday pleaded with the international community to stand alongside Haiti in restoring peace to the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she remains confident that an agreement could be reached with regards to the Dragon gas deal involving Venezuela and that she was prepared to lead the local delegation to Caracas for the discussions.

UNITED NATIONS – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Friday called for a new rules-based society saying that she sees no future for the global community without such a system.

UNITED NATIONS, DC – Guyana Wednesday called on the international community not to allow the ideals that led to the formation of the United Nations eight decades ago to be diminished , saying it must stand firm now against aggression and “remain fully engaged with the great questions of our time”.

ROSEAU, Dominica - Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Monday urged Caribbean countries against sowing “seeds of discord among ourselves” maintaining his adopted position of many years that he would not be commenting publicly on statements made by regional leaders.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from their homes.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty Wednesday transferred the multi-million dollar tax case against billionaire businessman,  Azruddin Mohamed, to another court. After indicating “I believe I have quite a lot on my plate already…”

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Venezuela is seeking closer ties with Suriname and has described as “ a new beginning” discussions held on Monday between Finance and Planning Minister, Adelien Wijnerman and the Venezuelan Ambassador, Ms. Ayezim Y. Flores Rivas,

UNITED NATIONS – Trinidad and Tobago has reiterated its support for the United States military presence in the southern Caribbean, saying it has been “very effective in inhibiting the innumerable activities of drug cartels within our country”.

UNITED NATIONS – Haiti’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, has warned that the socio-economic and political security crisis in his homeland “is like the Sword of Damocles above us.”