BELMOPAN, Belize – Taiwan is providing a grant of US$1.4 million to help Belize launch the second phase of its low-income housing program.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamas government says Christopher Davis, the son of the Prime Minister Phillip Davis, had received no funding from  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who last Thursday was convicted by a federal jury in New York of fraud charges .

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A second person has pleaded guilty to their involvement in the kidnapping and murder of the 10 month old daughter of Opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell. The child’s mother,  27-year-old Toshyna Patterson, had also been killed.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has named Avery Henry to act as chief executive officer of the Antigua and Barbuda Airport Authority (ABBA) after the incumbent submitted her resignation claiming among her reasons Browne’s “unbridled attempt to assassinate my personal character”.

GEORGETOWN, CAYMAN Islands – Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale, has described as a game changer for the judiciary, the Cayman Islands' partnership with the Caribbean Agency for Justice Solutions (CAJS).

WASHINGTON, DC – United States law enforcement authorities have filed an indictment charging Vitel’homme Innocent, a Haitian national and leader of the Kraze Barye gang, for his alleged role in the October 2022 armed hostage taking, in Haiti, of two United States citizens, one of whom was killed during the event.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a US $50 million grant to continue addressing food insecurity among vulnerable populations in Haiti and increase the use of preventive and essential health services.

NASSAU, Bahamas – The Bahamanian government says it will begin demolishing illegal structures in two unregulated communities in New Providence from next Monday.

NAIROBI, Kenya, CMC – Kenya’s plans to lead a multi-national international force to Haiti to restore peace and security suffered another setback on Tuesday after a Kenyan High Court extended  a temporary order barring the government from deploying hundreds of police officers to Haiti.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described as “barbaric and merciless”  the murder of two school boys on Monday evening, adding that  “violence in all its form is abhorrent and must be strongly punished."

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley Tuesday said that the current violent crime spree will not be tolerated and that “the wanton disregard for human life in Trinidad and Tobago has now gone beyond concerning to the ridiculous”.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Central Directorate of the Judicial Police is questioning Joseph Felix Badio, a key suspect in the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.