NEW YORK, New York – Jamaicans residing in the United States are calling on their government to follow the example of Barbados and confer national hero status on the legendary reggae singer, bob Marley, whose 77^th birthday was celebrated on February 6.

NEW YORK, NY - Murdered Caribbean immigrant New York City Police Officer, Wilbert Mora, was funeralized yesterday after a huge moving funeral service as St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The distinguished Barbadian technocrat Dr. Jean Holder, well known throughout the region for his pioneering work in tourism and diplomacy has died. He was 85.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The son of the assassinated President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, is predicting that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country will go through “another five years without a new democratically elected president”.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana's former president is questioning the “deafening silence” of Latin America and Caribbean leaders to the situation in Ukraine where Russian troops have been gathering on the border of the European country, amid fears of a possible invasion.

NEW YORK, New York– Caribbean American New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has expressed deep concern over the shooting of two officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) in Harlem, New York on Friday night. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer” has introduced Jamaican-born New York City Assemblyman, Nick Perry, to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the nominee for US Ambassador to Jamaica.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Caribbean American jurist has emerged among the top contenders for nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbadian voters bought into the philosophy that they are “safer with Mia” wholesale and re-elected the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) into government with a consecutive clean sweep of the 30 seats in Parliament.

NEW YORK, New York – A United States congresswoman and activist legislator in New York has passed a bill through the US House of Representatives to support debt relief for Caribbean and other developing countries.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –Prime Minister Ariel Henry promising to do “everything in my power” to bring to justice those responsible for the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July last year, has also indicated “there will not be a new president on February 7”.

Winsome Earle-Sears was on Saturday sworn as the 42nd Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Jamaican-born Ms. Sears is the first woman to serve as a Lt. Governor and the first Black woman to hold a statewide office in the Commonwealth.