BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados and Martinique have a signed a five-year cooperation agreement establishing a bilateral framework for cooperation in a number of  areas.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has denied allegations that her government is behind an “orchestrated attack”  on the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) as the police investigate the funding of the party’s multimillion-dollar headquarters.

WASHINGTON, DC – Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have pledged to continuing legislative, legal and advocacy efforts to protect Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the US.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told delegates attending the Second Annual Global Maritime Security and Sanctions Enforcement Symposium that their shared goal is to ensure “a fair, secure, and competitive industry by identifying and preventing the registration of vessels suspected of illicit activity”.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Wednesday dismissed as “asinine” a suggestion by United Kingdom parliamentarians with threats to impose visa bans on countries asking for reparations.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Suriname’s President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons Tuesday said that Guyana had been advised as early as February this year of her country’s decision to finance the construction of the Corentyne River bridge on its own.

WASHINGTON, DC – Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the Organization of American States  (OAS), Sir Ronald Sanders, was on Monday installed as chairman of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed has called on President Mohamed Irfaan Ali to explain the financing and ownership of a large agricultural property along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, prompting a response from the head of state, who acknowledged ownership of the facility and rejected allegations of wrongdoing.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The leaders of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica Tuesday welcomed the decision by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to seek an advisory opinion from the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) regarding the controversial reappointment of the CARICOM Secretary General, Dr.  Carla Barnett.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The Antigua and Barbuda government used its overwhelming majority to pass a resolution allowing it to continue negotiations with the United States on receiving third country nationals (TCN) even as the opposition maintained that St. John’s had no “cards” to affect the outcome of the US migration policy.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said that the visa policy of the United States is undermining trade, commerce “and even our students who require a visa to study in the United States.

CASTRIES, St.  Lucia – Trinidad and Tobago says that its objection to the reappointment of Dr. Carla Barnett as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, “is neither personal nor political”.