PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government has defended the imposition of yet another state of emergency (SoE) less than two months after a more than year long similar measure had been lifted even as the opposition questioned the motive behind this new declaration.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Attorney General Letitia James says she has co-led a coalition of 17 other attorneys general in the United States in defending the legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants, including many who have lived and worked in the US for over a decade.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An estimated 271 205 voters have begun casting their ballots in Wednesday’s snap general election that Prime Minister Mia Mottley called a year in advance, hoping to win a third consecutive term in office.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – At least three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have expressed concern at the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East after the United States and Israel launched military attacks on Iran that resulted in missile attacks by Iran directed at the territories of the United Arab Emirates and other sovereign States in the Gulf.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre Monday said the St. Lucia government “is actively engaging through established diplomatic and security channels” after confirming that “people lost their lives” in the latest United States military strike against illegal drug dealers in the Caribbean Sea.

WASHINGTON, DC - The United States has re-affirmed its support for Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimè after he assumed leadership of the interim government in the country following the end of the mandate of the Provisional Transitional Council (CPT) last Saturday.

BASSETERRE, ST. Kitts - United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Wednesday, said Washington is interested in rebuilding and constructing a new dynamic in the Western Hemisphere and is partnering with Caribbean countries “on the issues we share in common”.

NEW YORK, New York – A coalition of civil rights, criminal justice reform, faith and immigrants’ rights advocates have announced their support for the New York Civil Rights Act legislation sponsored by Caribbean-American Democratic New York State Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie and Assembly member Gabriella Romero. 

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United States has signalled its strong support for Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimè’s leadership “in building a strong, prosperous, and free Haiti”  as the deadline draws nearer for the end of the mandate of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) on Saturday.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has won a second court order that prevents the Donald Trump administration from carrying out its freeze of over US$10 billion in funding for childcare and support for vulnerable families.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley became only the second Caribbean politician to win all the seats in a national parliament on three occasions as she led the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to yet another whitewash of her opponents in the Barbados general election.

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates have welcomed a United States federal district court’s ruling blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 350, 000 Haitians living in the North American country.