TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Premier Natalio Wheatley says the United States should do more to help the British Virgin Islands to stem the flow of guns.
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WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer on Wednesday announced the confirmation of a Jamaican-American to serve as a district judge on the prestigious United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY).
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has paid tribute to the United States civil rights activist and humanitarian, Harry Belafonte, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York home on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Department of State says the Biden administration has resumed talks with Cuban officials on the implementation of the US-Cuba Migration Accords.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Two men were killed during a shootout with police after gunmen fired upon and set fire to a police station in Pikin Saron, south of the capital, on Tuesday.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Immigration officials in the United States have refused to give an explanation after a mobile phone belonging to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Toussaint Jr.- Thomas, who was traveling through the United States en route to China.
FLORIDA – Two Trinidadians were among three men who admitted to their roles in a Caribbean arms trafficking ring.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States government has announced sweeping new measures to further reduce unlawful migration.
BALTIMORE, Maryland - Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has lashed out at the concept of democracy as practiced through the self-serving prism of the West, “where the litmus test of a democratic society is determined by whether the leader, who is chosen in free and fair elections, is acceptable to Western eyes or subscribes to the precepts of a capitalist state.”
MIAMI, Florida – A Miami court has awarded the Trinidad and Tobago government US$132 million two weeks after a jury here found Trinidadian businessman Steve Ferguson and a former government minister liable for multiple claims arising from the redevelopment of the Piarco International Airport in the oil-rich twin island Republic dating back to more than 20 years ago.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Candace Bon says Washington has pumped in excess of US$800 million to reduce illegal arms trafficking and increase public security in the region.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – CARICOM leaders ended a two-day regional symposium on violence as a public health issue, declaring a war on guns to combat the illegal trade which they said “provides the weapons that contribute significantly to crime and violence in our region”
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States says it has imposed visa and financial sanctions on the former president of the Haitian Chamber of Deputies, Gary Bodeau, for his alleged involvement in corruption.
