KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Child Protection  and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the Ministry of Education, have   decided to delicense the Sunbeam Children’s Home, located in the central parish of St. Catherine, following reports of child abuse at the facility.

ROSEAU, Dominica – More than a month after she died of an apparent heart failure in the United States, the Dominica government Monday announced that the former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, will be given an official funeral on Wednesday.

NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization for more than 200 groups in New York State, has spearheaded a “children’s march and rally” at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, urging New York City Mayor Eric Adams to end the 60-day rule for asylum seekers in city shelters. 

BELMOPAN, Belize – Police Commissioner Chester Williams has confirmed that a prominent attorney and member of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) is assisting police investigations following allegations made by two women

MIAMI, FL – The trial date for Former Premier Andrew Fahie, who is charged with several counts of drug smuggling, money laundering and racketeering, will not begin on January 8 as originally scheduled as late motions by prosecutors forced Judge Kathleen Williams to schedule a hearing about those motions on the date the trial was expected to begin.

MIAMI, FL – A former Haitian legislator has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the July,7, 2021 assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moise.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is reported to have the highest road fatality rate for the region as concerns continue about the persistently high rates of road traffic deaths on the island’s roads.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago's government on Tuesday ordered that the national flag be flown at half-mast on all state and non-state agencies and the country’s diplomatic missions abroad in honor of the former prime minister Basdeo Panday, who died on Monday at the age of 90.

NEW YORK, New York – The US-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke, has “categorically denied” being served with a Guyana police-issued court summons to attend court in March next year on charges related to extortion, sedition and inciting public terror.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday paid final respects to 90-year-old Basdeo Panday, the country’s fifth prime minister, who died in the United States on January 1, where he had been hospitalized for treatment of an undisclosed illness.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has now  completed training of the first batch of Haitian police officers.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is reporting a slight decrease in murders so far this year, with official figures putting the murder toll at 1,251 as of December 17 this year as compared with 1, 471 for the same period last year. This represents a decline of 8.2 percent.