BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The chairman of the National Task Force on Reparations, David Comissiong, says it will to develop new self-help reparatory justice projects modelled on the landmark 46-year-old law that enabled plantation and urban tenants to buy the land they rented.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has launched the Eleventh Cycle of its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF 11) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, providing financing to improve access to essential services, strengthen community infrastructure and expand livelihood opportunities. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley has led the tributes to broadcaster and actress, Peta Alleyne, who has died at the age of 65. The cause of death has not been disclosed.

LONDON, UK – The London-based Privy Council Tuesday ruled “unanimously” in favour of Jason Jones who had challenged the laws criminalising consensual same-sex relations between adults in Trinidad and Tobago.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The state has settled a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with former Central Bank governor, Dr Alvin Hilaire, who had filed a wrongful dismissal action against the Kamla Persad-Bissessar government last year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Veteran Jamaican singer and record producer Derrick Harriott, who helped shape the evolution of ska, rocksteady and reggae music, died on Saturday. He was 87.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian security forces have intensified their offensive against powerful armed gangs, killing a notorious gang leader here amid a series of coordinated operations involving explosive drones.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Britain’s King Charles stopped short of issuing an apology for slavery even as he acknowledged that the matter will be discussed when Commonwealth leaders meet in Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) from November 1.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – More than 1,300 Jamaicans were deported from the United States and other countries last year, with the majority being returned for immigration violations and criminal offences, according to the latest Economic and Social Survey Jamaica (ESSJ).

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has officially unveiled its Fallen Soldier Monument, dubbed ‘The Parade’, at the Jamaica Military Museum and Library at its Up Park Camp, in the Corporate area .

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana has called on Caribbean countries to work together to end “dark fleet” operations, warning that vessels fraudulently flying national flags are being used to move guns, sanctioned oil, and smuggled people.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging landowners with unused property in developed areas to consider selling it to the Government to help expand housing opportunities for vulnerable Jamaicans.