MIAMI, Florida – Tropical Storm Bret is pulling away from the Lesser Antilles on Friday with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (mph) with several countries, including Dominica, St. Lucia and Martinique, discontinuing warning and watches for their respective countries.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaican government has confirmed that the building housing the country’s Consulate in Haiti had come under attack on Tuesday by gunmen and as a result it had suspended indefinitely its consular services on the island.

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

MIAMI, Florida – A strengthening Tropical Storm Bret is heading towards the Windward Islands on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (mph) and forcing several countries to issue storm watches.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York State Assembly has passed legislation to create the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies to examine the impact of slavery and subsequent discrimination and systemic racism against Africans Americans, and to propose appropriate remedies and reparations in addition to exploring policy and legislative solutions.

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

UNITED NATIONS – The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, says there is need for urgent action to deal with the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti.

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.

New York City’s Caribbean American community came together in a show of strength and unity in downtown Manhattan today for a special flag-raising celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

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.