KINGSTON, Jamaica – The human rights group, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), Monday described as “disturbing and distressing” a video on social media showing a police officer kneeling on the chest of an 11-year-old male primary school student.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Taiwan is providing a grant of US$1.4 million to help Belize launch the second phase of its low-income housing program.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government says Christopher Davis, the son of the Prime Minister Phillip Davis, had received no funding from  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who last Thursday was convicted by a federal jury in New York of fraud charges .

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A popular radio disc jockey died Sunday when the car in which he was traveling flipped before it crashed into a light pole along the recently opened San Fernando to Point Fortin Archibald-De Leon Highway.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has named Avery Henry to act as chief executive officer of the Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority (ABBA) after the incumbent submitted her resignation claiming among her reasons Browne’s “unbridled attempt to assassinate my personal character”.

GEORGETOWN, CAYMAN Islands – Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale, has described as a game changer for the judiciary, the Cayman Islands' partnership with the Caribbean Agency for Justice Solutions (CAJS).

BELMOPAN, Belize -Police have detained the foster parents of a four-year-old child, whom a postmortem had found died from multiple trauma last weekend.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a US $50 million grant to continue addressing food insecurity among vulnerable populations in Haiti and increase the use of preventive and essential health services.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamanian government says it will begin demolishing illegal structures in two unregulated communities in New Providence from next Monday.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has increased the reward offer for information leading to the arrest and or conviction of the  Haitian gang leader, Vitel‘homme Innocent, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placing him on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described as “barbaric and merciless”  the murder of two school boys on Monday evening, adding that  “violence in all its form is abhorrent and must be strongly punished."

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Tuesday said that the current violent crime spree will not be tolerated and that “the wanton disregard for human life in Trinidad and Tobago has now gone beyond concerning to the ridiculous”.