KINGSTON, Jamaica – The death toll from Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into Jamaica late last month, has climbed to 45,  Information Minister Dr. Dana Morris Dixon announced on Tuesday.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Former Suriname president, Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan, died on Wednesday after he had been ailing for some time. He was 89.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's government says it is fast-tracking an Electronic Identification (E-ID) card system as the country seeks to deal with its porous borders which it acknowledges can be easily breached.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The building housing the Office of Prime Minister (OPM) Kamla Persad Bissessar was evacuated after a bomb threat had been discovered on Tuesday morning, the Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Darrell P. Allahar has said.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Relatives of two men believed to have been killed when United States military bombed their fishing vessel in international waters last month, have formally made a report to the police here.

KINGSTOWN,  St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Tuesday night announced November 27 as the date for the general elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

NEW YORK, New York  – Jamaica’s Consul General to New York, Alsion Roach Wilson, who served in the post since 2019, has died.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States on Saturday continued its military strikes in the Caribbean, killing three alleged drug smugglers in the latest lethal strike.  

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana's police on Tuesday said that a Venezuelan national, identified as the main suspect in the bombing incident that resulted in the death of a six-year-old child on Sunday night, had entered the country illegally.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Seven people, including the Venezuelan national who is alleged to have confessed to being the person who laid a bomb outside a gas station that killed six-year old Soraya Bourne and injury to four others late last month, has been denied bail and remanded into custody when they appeared in a magistrate court here on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, New York – New York Attorney General Letitia James has warned New Yorkers to be cautious in charitable giving for Caribbean hurricane relief.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government says that a United States warship is due to arrive here this weekend for a five-day visit during which joint military training exercises will be conducted with the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF).