GEORGETOWN, Guyana – CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, has praised Antigua and Barbuda’s role on the regional and international stage as the country marks its 44th anniversary of political independence on Saturday.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan legislators are on Tuesday expected to debate a motion declaring the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar persona non grata as the rift between the two governments over the presence of United States military presence off the coast of the South American country widens.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) Friday said it remains “undeterred in carrying out its mandate”  after Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar said she had “no regard for the eat-ah-food filth in the hierarchy” of the organization.

ST.  GEORGE’S, Grenada – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says he will make a statement to Parliament next Tuesday on the request by the United States to temporarily install a radar at the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) and the deployment of US military assets on or near Grenada.

KINGSTON, St. Vincent – The Director General of the St. Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Dr.  Didacus Jules, Monday extended congratulations to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as the member state of the sub-regional grouping celebrates its 46th anniversary of political independence from Britain.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government Sunday night denied that the presence of the USS Gravely in Port-of-Spain constitutes a “hostile provocation” of Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, DC —International human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the US Congress to stop airstrikes in the Caribbean .

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Nicolas Maduro has announced the “immediate”  suspension of energy agreements with Trinidad and Tobago, a few hours after his Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, said a formal proposal had been submitted to him to suspend the Energy Cooperation Framework Agreement with Port of Spain.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A war of words has broken out between Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM)  after she accused the country’s oldest political party of having links to local drug dealers.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali has held talks in with Saudi Arabia with that country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud on Monday as the two countries seek to deepen their relations, according to a government statement issued here

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said that her country will not be “held to ransom” as she accused some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries of siding with Venezuela over the ongoing security situation in the region.

WASHINGTON, DC – As the Trump administration intensified its military build-up in the Caribbean, a Pentagon spokesman said on Friday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its carrier air wing, to the Caribbean in aid of what the administration says is its counter-drug initiative.