PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –  The Haitian government has defended its decision for senior government officials not to be attend Friday’s inauguration of the second term President Luis Abinade of the Dominican Republic.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Andrew Holness led administration   is seeking to meet its objectives under the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) Act.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana has formally asked the United States for assistance in implementing a series of charges  against New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The expelled leader of the main opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr. Ronnie Yearwood, is hoping that the party’s  annual general conference later this week, will reverse the decision to remove him and the former general  secretary, Steve Blackett.

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Haitian counterpart, Garry Conille, have agreed on the importance of working closely with the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) and taking the “appropriate steps” toward holding free and fair elections in the violence-wracked, beleaguered French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre says his government will use a US$5.5 million US dollar grant from Taiwan to undertake projects that will be beneficial to St. Lucians.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says a national consultation on constitutional reform will be held in October this year  dismissing in the process, opposition suggestion of an early general election in Trinidad and Tobago.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP)says it will no longer pursue legal action challenging the decision taken by Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC) to conduct a voter identification card replacement program instead of a complete re-registration exercise.

NEW YORK, New York – A day after Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States, a major Caribbean-American Democratic political club in Brooklyn, New York, of which Clarke serves as an executive member, has thrown its full support behind Harris’s bid for the presidency. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness Wednesday announced that his administration has established a J$25 million (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.008 cents) fund that will help solve the murders that took place in Clarendon, south of here, last Sunday.

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Voters in the Sandys North constituency will go to the polls in a by-election on October 4 to elect a parliamentary representative after former attorney general and minister of legal affairs and constitutional reform, Kathy-Lynn Simmons, announced her resignation last week.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean nationals in the diaspora are pushing ahead with plans to have Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican national, elected as the next president of the United States.