BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An estimated 271 205 voters have begun casting their ballots in Wednesday’s snap general election that Prime Minister Mia Mottley called a year in advance, hoping to win a third consecutive term in office.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Jamaican recording artiste, Keznamdi, Sunday night won the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album defeating his follow Jamaican artistes to take the coveted prize in his first nomination for the album, Blxxd & Fyah.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council  Wednesday has been told that Haitian stakeholders remain divided over the transitional governance architecture that is to lead the country to elections.

WASHINGTON, DC - The United States has re-affirmed its support for Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimè after he assumed leadership of the interim government in the country following the end of the mandate of the Provisional Transitional Council (CPT) last Saturday.

BOSTON, MA – Three groups in the United States have revealed what they described as “the immense human and economic cost” of terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the US.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American New York state legislator, Brian Cunningham, has become the first lawmaker to endorse New York Governor Kathy Hochul for re-election.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United States has signalled its strong support for Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimè’s leadership “in building a strong, prosperous, and free Haiti”  as the deadline draws nearer for the end of the mandate of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, DC – The mother and sister of two Trinidadian nationals killed last year in a United States military strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs Tuesday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the US government.

WASHINGTON, DC – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday held brief talks with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness in the wake of  deep regional concern over the United States’ recent intervention in Venezuela, the US military’s strikes on suspected narco-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the US’ freezing of all visa processing for several Caribbean countries.

NEW YORK, New York – Immigration advocates have welcomed a United States federal district court’s ruling blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 350, 000 Haitians living in the North American country.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United Nations’ top human rights official has raised alarm over what he described as the growing dehumanization of migrants in the United States, warning that current immigration enforcement practices are undermining due process, family unity and basic human dignity.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries appeared to be in the dark with regards to the latest announcement by the United States that at least 11 regional countries have been included among for 75 countries worldwide where Washington is suspending the processing of immigrant visas.