BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The distinguished Barbadian technocrat Dr. Jean Holder, well known throughout the region for his pioneering work in tourism and diplomacy has died. He was 85.

NEW YORK, NY - A former senator who was being sought in connection with the July 7^th assassination of President Jovenel Moise, has reportedly been arrested in Jamaica.

NEW YORK, NY - A “modern-day lynching?” That’s what the family of Caribbean immigrant says it all boils down to even though Pennsylvania State Police’s Western Heritage Affairs office says it's not being treated as a hate crime.

NEW YORK, New York– Caribbean American New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has expressed deep concern over the shooting of two officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) in Harlem, New York on Friday night. 

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)  has dismissed as “purely a partisan attack” on Caribbean and other immigrant communities, a lawsuit filed by several New York Republican officials that seeks to stop more than 800,000 immigrants from voting in local municipal elections.

MIAMI, Florida – A Colombian national, Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, has been arrested based on a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida on a plot to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed at his private residence in Port au Prince on July 7, last year. His wife, Martine, was also injured during the attack and had to be treated in the United States.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbadian voters bought into the philosophy that they are “safer with Mia” wholesale and re-elected the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) into government with a consecutive clean sweep of the 30 seats in Parliament.

NEW YORK, New York - Haiti’s prime minister is again being implicated in the murder of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse in July.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – A wide scale investigation has been launched following the attempted assassination of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Sunday morning.

Winsome Earle-Sears was on Saturday sworn as the 42nd Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Jamaican-born Ms. Sears is the first woman to serve as a Lt. Governor and the first Black woman to hold a statewide office in the Commonwealth. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations has called on the authorities in Haiti to “find the perpetrators and bring them to justice” as the bullet riddled bodies of two journalists were retrieved from Laboule 12, a village, south west of here, over the weekend.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has granted clemency to a convicted Jamaican-born drug dealer among 10 immigrants who have “showed remorse and exemplified rehabilitation”.