PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Trinidad and Tobago government has reaffirmed its support for the United States mission “aimed at dismantling all elements which facilitate transnational crime in the Americas”.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations has launched a “Humanitarian Needs and Response” for Haiti, as the country continues to deal with a socio-economic and security situation.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana Wednesday night said the oil tanker seized by the United States earlier during the day “was falsely flying the Guyana flag” and is not registered here.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Dr Irfaan Ali Saturday said Guyana has activated its “security architecture”  after the United States bombed several military and other sites in Venezuela.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Monday said he his country is prepared to act as a mediator in the current conflict between the United States and Venezuela reiterating that the Caribbean region should always be a zone of peace.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Planning, Economic Affairs and Development, Kennedy Swaratsingh, Monday said some of the main structural vulnerabilities persistently facing the Caribbean have restricted the region’s fiscal spaces and slowing down productivity growth among other challenges.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Bureau of the Caribbean Community (CARICM) leaders has reiterated a call for “peaceful dialogue” to ensure stability in Venezuela following the United States invasion of the South American country and the detention and arrest of its President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States and Canada on Friday welcomed the “commitments and participation” made at the December 9 Haiti Force Generation Conference for the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), convened on behalf of the Standing Group of Partners.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The executive secretary of the Economic Commission forLatin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Jose Manuel Salazar Xirinachs, Tuesday called on countries in the Caribbean region modernise their statistical legislation and governance systems to foster a culture of independence, access to administrative data, and improve data protection.

GEORGETOWN,  Guyana – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Armstrong Alexis, has praised the commitment of the Republic of Korea to the socio-economic development of the 15-member regional integration grouping, particularly through the CARICOM-Republic of Korea Cooperation Fund.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The government of the Dominican Republic has authorized several U.S. military aircraft to land in the country in the coming days as part of an operational support deployment in the Caribbean. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – President pro tempore and Coordinator of the Transition Council, Laurent Saint-Cyr, has welcomed the latest batch of Kenyan troops who will reinforce the Gang Repression Force (FRG) in Haiti.