ATLANTA, Georgia - Two Jamaicans recognized for their contributions to community development and service were honored by Atlanta-based charitable organization Jamaicans Caring for Jamaicans (JCJ) as it raised funds to support its dental missions to Jamaica.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda's government has said it intends to commence an exploratory process into the potential development of a digital identity framework for the island.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Tuesday paid tribute to the family of Desiree John, the wife of Dominica’s first prime minister Patrick John, who died at the Dominica-Friendship Hospital early Tuesday. She was 78 years old.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has confirmed that the Deputy Commissioner of Police Fizal Karimbaksh has been sent on leave pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of rape and threatening behaviour made against him.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) Friday mourned the death of prominent journalist, Brian St. Juste, 68, who died “after a period of illness marked by medical complications”.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Eighteen people detained in Haiti in connection with the 2021 assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse were on Sunday extradited to the United States to face federal proceedings in Florida.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is to introduce a new ticketing system for certain public-order offences as the Government seeks to reduce confrontations between police officers and people who breach the law.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – The government of the British Virgin Islands has allocated a further US $2.5 million for electricity subsidies through the end of the year.

GEORGTOWN, Guyana – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) says it has directed the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to immediately launch an investigation into allegations that police and immigration officials were accepting payments ”to to facilitate the movement of foreign nationals”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the July 18, 2026 sinking of the MV Barima, retired justice Godfrey Smith, Wednesday said the process of raising the vessel has been discussed.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre says the late Grenadian born calypsonian, the Mighty Sparrow gave the Caribbean a “voice that was unmistakably our own”  as he paid tribute to the legendary singer who died in New York on Sunday at the age of 91.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A second man wanted in connection with the 2015 murder of sex worker Noel “Nephi” Luther is now in the custody of Guyanese authorities following his deportation from the United States.