PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) budget presented to Parliament late last month, telling legislators it was the best allocation of the available resources.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar, Friday described the T$57.6 billion (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) national budget presented to the Parliament early this week as “a vicious frontal attack on the poor and working class” and called for a general election.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – St. Lucia has begun the process of replacing the London-based Privy Council as its final court.
WASHINGTON, DC – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Wednesday made an impassioned plea for the United States to reverse its decision regarding correspondent banking in the Caribbean telling US legislators not to allow “this to be recorded as unconscious bias.
NEW York, New York – The Barbados government, faced with the financial fallout from the cost of living, debt and climate crises, has unveiled its “Bridgetown Agenda” as a guide for urgent and decisive transformation of the international financial system.
NEW YORK, New York– Grenada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Joseph Andall says the island is seeking to establish diplomatic relations with African countries as well as those in South and Central America.
NASSAU, Bahamas – Prime Minister Phillip Davis says Bahamians will have to decide whether the country should become a republic.
UNITED NATIONS – Stating that, over the decades, Trinidad and Tobago has anchored its multilateral engagement on the founding purposes and principles of the United Nations, Foreign Affairs Minister Amery Browne on Saturday called on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its invasion of Ukraine.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Grenada’s Prime Minister, Dickon Mitchell, says the region is experiencing a “fascinating time” as a progressive wind of political change is blowing throughout the Caribbean.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry is condemning persons whom he said want to acquire political power in Haiti without first seeking a mandate from the population.
WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has led 33 of her congressional colleagues in a letter to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus expressing “grave concern” over the administration’s detainment and deportation policies.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – President of the Senate Joseph Lambert has told the nation that a new governance structure will be in place within the next 48 hours.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Former prime minister, Claude Joseph, says he welcomes the decision of President Luis Abinader “to arbitrarily prohibit” him from entering the Dominican Republic, insisting that he would still be speaking out against “anti Haitiansim” in the Spanish-speaking country.
