PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath Friday said that the ruling United National Congress (UNC) is playing no role in the February 11 general elections in Barbados.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has issued a stern warning to gangs and recently released detainees, saying law-abiding citizens are fed up with criminal activity. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – One of the five persons who had earlier this year signed a resolution seeking the removal of Prime Mister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé from office, is now distancing himself from an attempt to remove the President of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), Laurent Saint-Cyr.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Principal magistrate Judy Latchman is expected to continue hearing arguments on Friday after she dismissed a motion filed by Azruddin Mohamed to adjourn his extradition committal hearing on the grounds that he had budgetary responsibilities as Opposition Leader in the ongoing budget debate in Guyana.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Friday said that while the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is in “urgent need of some transformation” the twin island republic “attaches great importance to our country’s long standing relationship” with the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has hosted a virtual emergency briefing for members of the clergy in New York to prepare Caribbean and other churches for possible occupation by agents from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. 

UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Wednesday said he is “extremely concerned” about the humanitarian situation in Cuba, which will worsen, if not collapse, if its oil needs go unmet.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – In the run up to this month’s general election, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has pledged cost-of-living relief through targeted cash credits and tax measures if re-elected. 

NEW YORK, New York – The Brooklyn Democratic Party is celebrating the elevation of Trinidadian-American Justice, Lisa S. Ottley, to the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Kings County.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali Monday aid that differences of opinion within the 15-member regional integration grouping,  CARICOM, should not be viewed as ‘divisive” as he sought to soften the recent impact of differences in the regional integration movement.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceño says Belize is looking to deepen cooperation with Guyana in agriculture, tourism, and education as it the country hosts President Irfaan Ali over the weekend.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says the African country will sponsor the erection of a monument at the Seville Heritage Park, in St. Ann, to commemorate African solidarity and shared history with Jamaica.