LONDON, England — Jamaican superstar Khadija “Bunny” Shaw has spent her career defying expectations, and on Monday night, she scaled yet another peak by being recognised as the third-best player in women’s football globally.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González has signed a resolution formally requesting US President Donald Trump and Congress to admit the Caribbean territory as the 51st state of the United States.

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are facing new charges in the United States accusing them of conspiring to torture political opponents and US citizens detained in Venezuela.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali has held discussions with United States Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on expanding American investment in the country, particularly in the energy, infrastructure, agriculture and technology sectors.

WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Thursday announced a multi-million-dollar aid package for the Caribbean as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said that the United States-Caribbean Dialogue should translate into practical commitments, including financing for resilient energy systems as well as moving forward on the political and security situation in Haiti that “must remain central to our attention”.

WASHINGTON,  DC — Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined Tri-Caucus leaders in the United States House of Representatives in demanding the Trump administration’s withdrawal of what they described as “harmful” an English-only head start proposal.

WASHINGTON, DC – Guyana has signed an agreement with the United States on Wednesday that it says builds on the country’s multi-decade partnership with the North American country and is critical to the continued defense of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration says it has filed denaturalization actions in multiple US district courts against one Haitian and two Cuban nationals among 40 individuals accused of “serious offenses”, including acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Coast Guard says it has concluded the successful interdiction of the Motor Vessel (M/V) Grace following a coordinated international enforcement effort confirming the vessel’s “illicit trafficking” of fuel to Cuba.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council was told on Monday that armed groups in Haiti are adapting to intensified security operations, stepping up reprisals against civilians and extending their reach into rural areas.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Friday demanded that agents of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency leave New York City after an ICE agent shot an undocumented Dominican Republic national in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has imposed new financial and travel restrictions on Cuba, barring US banks from maintaining certain accounts for Cuban private entrepreneurs and reversing measures introduced by the Biden administration to expand the island’s access to the US financial system.