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).

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.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Grenadians took to the streets here on Thursday in a peaceful protest, urging the government to blank a request by the United States to temporarily install a radar at the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) and the deployment of US military assets on or near the island.

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.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis government says it is getting closer to returning the capital with a 24-hour water supply after it said progress on the two-million-gallon-per-day desalination plant at the C. A. Paul Southwell Industrial Park is “well advanced”.

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.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is marking National Heroes Day on Monday with the country’s two main political leaders paying tribute to those who have paved the way for the country to be recognized both at home and abroad.