NASSAU, Bahamas - US Vice President Kamala Harris pointed to the need to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the Caribbean as she met with leaders from CARICOM on Thursday. 

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Suriname and the United States have held a memorial day ceremony for the first time since the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country established diplomatic relations in 1975.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana and the United States have made significant achievements in the area of business, with bilateral trade between the two countries tripling to over US$3 Billion under US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - At least  54 people have been killed in Haiti, over the past few days, as a consequence of an earthquake and devastating floods caused by torrential rains that have battered the impoverished Caribbean country, marred in a deep political crisis that has worsened since the assassination, in July 2021, of the Haitian president, Jovenel Moise.

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – Guyana police Sunday said that a secondary school girl who allegedly caused the death of 19 of her schoolmates when she set the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School, 100 miles west of here,  ablaze last Monday, will be charged with murder.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, on Wednesday urged Mayor Eric Adams to scrap reported plans to house asylum seekers at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in Queens, New York.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has sanctioned former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe for his alleged involvement in “significant corruption.”

NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have called for expedited work authorization for asylum seekers who have been arriving in New York City from the country’s southern border states on an almost daily basis.

NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has launched the city’s first asylum seeker arrival center as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in NYC daily. Adams also announced the placement of what will be the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States President Joseph Biden has issued a proclamation declaring June Caribbean-American Heritage Month.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Police say they will send a file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on Wednesday after indicating that the deadly fire at the dormitory at a secondary school that resulted in 19 students being killed had been started by a female student.

MIAMI, FL – The United States Coast Guard says the termination of Title 42 public health order does not alter the maritime migration policies for migrants, saying the measure never applied to migrants interdicted at sea.