NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government says it hopes by this time next year, Bahamians across 14 islands will experience the benefits of modern, reliable, affordable electricity.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – National Security Minister, Dr Horace Chang, says the recent acts of violence committed against women and girls will remain as a stain on Jamaica’s national character even as he promised that such acts will not be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – In observance of Workers’ Week and Labour Day this year, two government buildings are to be renamed after former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, and former legislature, Lynden Gladstone Newland,

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The director of the Centre for International and Border Studies, Dr Mark Kirton, says Guyana should examine the possibility of having the presence of an international military mission as the border dispute with Venezuela continues unabated.

NEW YORK, New York – The Brooklyn, New York-based Guyana Independence Celebration Committee New York (GICCNY) said on Saturday that it will honor murdered 11-year-old Adrianna Younge at Guyana’s annual Independence Parade and Celebration in Brooklyn on June 1.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The family of an 11 year-old girl, whose body was found in a swimming pool at a hotel late last month, and whose death caused the government to institute a four and a half hour curfew following protest action, say the funeral planned for Monday has been postponed.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American legislators have expressed “profound sadness” over the passing of former United States Congressman, Charles B. Rangel, who died on Monday at his home in Harlem. He as 94.

SAN DIEGO, CA – The California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) is demanding justice and accountability in the death of a Haitian woman in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti has emerged as one of the worst countries in the world with regards to press freedom, Reporters San Frontiers (RSF) reported on Friday.

ROSEAU, Dominica – The well-known indigenous environmental activist, Ferdison Valmond, has been invited to attend the second Annual Hamburg Sustainability Summit (HSC) in Germany.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – One of the country’s Veteran politicians and former General Secretary of the opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally, died on Saturday. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony, has raised concerns over calls for a second autopsy in the death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge, despite a unanimous conclusion from three internationally acclaimed forensic pathologists that the child died by drowning.