GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have adopted a protocol which should create opportunities to further the principles, goals and objectives of the Community through enhanced cooperation, according to a statement issued by the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for the Caribbean to remain as a zone of pace as she criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, insisting that Ukrainians “have a right to self-determination without the interference of others”

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda government has defended its policy of providing an amnesty to foreign nationals working and residing in the country, dismissing suggestions that it is merely a political ploy.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States government Wednesday launched the “Fact Check: Critical Thinking Journalism for Youth” program for budding journalists in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Thursday joined the global community in “strongly” condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for an “immediate and complete withdrawal” of military forces from the Eastern European country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassadors based in the United States have held discussions with Ukrainian diplomats to the United States and the United Nations to review the situation in the European country, where Russia is posed for a military invasion.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has suggested that Africa-CARICOM Day should be celebrated on September 7th, in recognition of the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Summit aimed at forging stronger social and economic ties between the two global communities.

BELMOPAN, Belize –Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet with their counterparts from the Central American Integration System (SICA) early next month, Prime Minister John Briceno has announced.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says that six months after a devastating earthquake in south-west Haiti caused the deaths of 2,200 people and injured 12,700 more, the international community is coming together with the Government of Haiti to raise up to US$2 billion for the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the French-speaking Caribbean country.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has suspended with immediate effect, applications from nationals of Russia and Belarus seeking citizenship under the island’s Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI).

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative in Haiti, Helen La Lime, says that despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president last year, the situation there remains “fraught and highly polarized.”

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceno has led the nation in paying tribute to the country’s second prime minister, Sir Manuel Esquivel, who died on Thursday night. He was 81-years-old.