PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday paid final respects to 90-year-old Basdeo Panday, the country’s fifth prime minister, who died in the United States on January 1, where he had been hospitalized for treatment of an undisclosed illness.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has now  completed training of the first batch of Haitian police officers.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is reporting a slight decrease in murders so far this year, with official figures putting the murder toll at 1,251 as of December 17 this year as compared with 1, 471 for the same period last year. This represents a decline of 8.2 percent.

ROSEAU, Dominica – More than a month after she died of an apparent heart failure in the United States, the Dominica government Monday announced that the former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, will be given an official funeral on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization for more than 200 groups in New York State, has spearheaded a “children’s march and rally” at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, urging New York City Mayor Eric Adams to end the 60-day rule for asylum seekers in city shelters. 

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica's government says it is planning to hold an official funeral for the former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, who died in the United States on December 1.

MIAMI, FL – The trial date for Former Premier Andrew Fahie, who is charged with several counts of drug smuggling, money laundering and racketeering, will not begin on January 8 as originally scheduled as late motions by prosecutors forced Judge Kathleen Williams to schedule a hearing about those motions on the date the trial was expected to begin.

MIAMI, FL – A former Haitian legislator has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the July,7, 2021 assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moise.

MIAMI, FL – Ahead of the start of the drug and money laundering trial against former Premier Andrew Fahie in January, the prosecution has disclosed a list of six persons expected to take the stand. Fahie, 53, is charged with one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, and attempted money laundering. 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago's government on Tuesday ordered that the national flag be flown at half-mast on all state and non-state agencies and the country’s diplomatic missions abroad in honor of the former prime minister Basdeo Panday, who died on Monday at the age of 90.

NEW YORK, New York – The US-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke, has “categorically denied” being served with a Guyana police-issued court summons to attend court in March next year on charges related to extortion, sedition and inciting public terror.

PORT OF SPAIN , Trinidad –  A  Trinidad  and Tobago national, Kim Maharaj, has been extradited to the United States where he  will begin serving a 12-year sentence, on Thursday,  for a 1998 gang assault in the State of New York.