PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Heavy rains as result of isolated thunderstorms failed to put a damper on the excitement as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders Tuesday planted six poui trees as part of celebrations marking the 50^th anniversary of the regional integration movement.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley has praised the contribution of former prime minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, who died on Monday at the age of 86, describing him as a true statesman who served Barbados with honor and the wider Caribbean with distinction.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The police have launched an investigation following the removal of 23 children from a religious compound in Montego Bay on Wednesday. 

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), will on July 4,  commence the registration of electric motorcycles and persons are being given a three-month period to do so before the law is enforced.

MIAMI, FL – Former Premier Andrew Fahie has filed an unopposed motion to have his trial date moved from mid-July to November 2023.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Bahamian officials said they had detained 22 foreigners, including two children, on Sunday after intercepting a 32 foot vessel in Bahamian waters carrying a United States flag.

ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands – Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP National Board of Directors, will deliver the keynote address for the historic 175th Emancipation Day commemoration taking place at Buddhoe Park on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday, July 3, 2023.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – St. Kitts-Nevis has become the latest member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to launch the sub-regional grouping’s Opportunities to Advance and Support Youth for Success (OASYS) project.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Daniel P. Erikson, says "The Caribbean Nations Security Conference” which opens in Montego Bay on Monday, will strengthen partnerships with the United States, Caribbean governments, and regional and multilateral institutions to tackle these important challenges.”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle says seven questions raised by former FIFA vice president, Austin Jack Warner regarding his extradition to the United States to face a multiplicity of corruption-related charges, were legally grounded and had merit.

MIAMI, Florida -A mother and son have pleaded guilty under a plea agreement to conspiracy to import cocaine in a scheme that also allegedly involved the former premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Andrew Fahie.

MIAMI, Florida – A 51-year-old Haitian-Chilean businessman was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for his role in the July 7, 2021 assassination of the 53-year-old Haitian President Jovenel Moise at his private residence overlooking Port au Prince.