Washington, DC - The Embassy Of Jamaica In Washington, DC, Will Open A Book Of Condolences Giving The Members Of The Diaspora And The Public At Large An Opportunity To Pay Tribute To The Honorable Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal’s Memory. The Book Of Condolences Will Be Opened At The Embassy, Located At 1520 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20036, From Tuesday, 17th January To Friday, 20th January 2023 From 10:00 A.M. To 3:00 P.M.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Press Society (SIP) says 2020 was the most violent year against journalism in the Western Hemisphere with Mexico and Haiti accounting for at least 29 deaths within the media industry.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –A United States Navy hospital ship is expected to resume operations on Wednesday after it was forced to temporarily suspend medical services after 19 people with the mission fell overboard amid a heavy swell hitting the Caribbean region.

ARAMARIBO, Suriname – Security has been tightened across Paramaribo in the aftermath of a failed bomb attack on Friday evening on a courthouse . 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados –The deputy chairperson of the National Task Force on Reparations, (NTFR) David Comissiong, has criticized what he described as a ”campaign of deceptive and misleading British “yellow journalism” regarding the issue of reparation in Barbados and the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada Postal Corporation (GPC) Tuesday said it had suspended mail delivery service to Canada and the Caribbean for the Christmas season blaming a lack of cargo air transportation from Grenada.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – President of the Senate, Joseph Lambert, has been treated at a hospital in the capital, Port au Prince, as he escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday.

BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso today announced his local private-public partnerships to gift children’s books and pajamas to hundreds of kids living in shelters throughout Brooklyn neighborhoods. Working with Reynoso’s city-affiliated charitable organization Brooklyn for All, Inc., Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Book Bodega, and Target, about 450 Brooklyn children – ranging from infants to pre-teens – who are currently living in shelters will receive a book and pajama set this holiday season. Distributions began on December 17th at a partnering church in Bed-Stuy and continued through the month in partnership with eight local organizations and family shelters located across various Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Brownsville, East New York, Bed-Stuy, and Williamsburg.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness says there is no truth to the notion that persons can be detained indefinitely under the State of Public Emergency (SOE).

North Miami, FL – Local residents in the City of North Miami and throughout the Haitian

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – The government of he Cayman Islands and the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) have launched a grassroots public education and awareness campaign to promote equal rights and legal protection for those with disabilities, especially access to parking or ‘blue spots’. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Cuba on Tuesday called on the international community to do more to deal with the political, social and economic situation in Haiti, where opposition forces and criminal gangs are seeking to remove the government of Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry.