WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has imposed new financial and travel restrictions on Cuba, barring US banks from maintaining certain accounts for Cuban private entrepreneurs and reversing measures introduced by the Biden administration to expand the island’s access to the US financial system.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says it is awaiting the “next steps” from the London-based Privy Council after Kingston announced that Britain’s King Charles had referred its landmark slavery reparation petition to the country’s highest and final court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, Friday expressed concern that some politicians linked to criminal gangs were being allowed to contest the presidential and legislative elections in Haiti in December this year.

UNITED NATIONS – CARICOM has welcomed the decision by the United Nations Security Council in adopting a resolution re-authorising the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti for six months, until 31 March 2027.

NEW YORK, New York – Several immigrant advocacy groups in New York have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule that expands the circumstances in which public benefits can be considered when determining whether some immigrants qualify for lawful permanent resident status.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Trinidadian-born academic Carole Boyce-Davies has been appointed to a newly endowed chair in Caribbean Studies at Howard University, further recognising her contribution to the study of the Caribbean and African diaspora.

WASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump on Saturday predicted that the US and Cuba will reach an agreement and he does not think military action will be necessary. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's government has said that it is still in negotiations with the United States regarding migrants from third countries being deported to the island.

NEW YORK, New York – Three people were injured in separate shootings near Monday’s West Indian American Day Carnival Parade in Brooklyn, marring an otherwise vibrant celebration of Caribbean culture.

UNITED NATIONS – Sixty years after it became a member of the United Nations, Barbados on Thursday called for a reform of the UN Security Council with particular emphasis on the use of the veto power and its overall membership.

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates have condemned the Donald Trump administration’s proposal excluding non-citizens from Census 2030, setting up a 14th Amendment challenge.

A 20-year-old Haitian college student in Ohio has died in an apparent suicide weeks after U.S. immigration authorities fitted him with a GPS ankle monitor, a measure his family says left the young man feeling humiliated and fearful about his future in the United States.