KINGSTON, Jamaica – Norway’s Crown Prince, Haakon Magnus, has ended a three-day visit to Jamaica, highlighting innovative efforts to address climate change, protect marine ecosystems, and reduce poverty.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) Thursday night led a rally on New York State’s Capitol strongly opposing United States President-elect Donald J. Trump’s mass deportation agenda that includes Haitian immigrants.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s main airport was temporarily shut down Monday as gangs attempted to seize control of the facility less than 24 hours after criminal gang leaders warned that the fighting will start again and asking the population not to go out into the streets.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Members of the submarine cable agreement (CELIA) consortium have introduced CELIA, a new high-capacity “express” cable in the region connecting Aruba, Martinique, Antigua, Puerto Rico, and Boca Raton in the United States. 

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says more than  20,000 people have fled their homes across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in just four days amid escalating gang violence, with more than 17,000 seeking shelter in 15 displacement sites as critical supply chains collapse.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has praised the quick work of police in apprehending the person who is believed to be responsible for the stabbing death of parliamentarian Asot Michael.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The media fraternity is mourning the loss of Ivor Grenville Theophilus Bird, the trailblazing founder of ZDK Liberty Radio and a pioneer in the Antigua and Barbuda’s media industry.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Three hundred Jamaicans will be among the first set of people to receive their digital national identification cards on Monday in the pilot stage of the National Identification System (NIDS).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government said the first two high medium energy mobile X-ray scanners have arrived here to be used for inspection of both imports and exports.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), says more than 100 gang members have been killed in Haiti in a three day period, as the armed gangs have stepped up attacks and attempted last Tuesday to invade one of the capital’s upscale neighborhoods, Pétion-Ville.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – More than 4,400 of the island’s entertainers and creatives have been given access to life insurance.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Police Commissioner Atlee Patrick Rodney has hinted at the possibility of foreign investigators assisting in the investigation into the death of the independent legislator, Asot Michael, whose body was found in a pool of blood by his maid at his Dry Hill Residence on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday morning.