PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is marking the first anniversary of the July 7th, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise with two days of street protest and fears that the investigation into his death would remain stalled.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American legislators and immigration advocates have strongly condemned a court ruling that struck down a law that would have permitted Caribbean and other non-citizens to vote in local elections in New York City.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government on Friday declared a state of public emergency (SOE) in the parish of St. Catherine, citing rampant criminality and lawlessness and the need to protect citizens from escalating criminal violence.

ANKARA, Turkey – The High Criminal Court of Istanbul has rejected a request for the extradition of ,Jordanian businessman, Samir Nasri Salem Handal to Haiti to stand trial for his alleged involvement in the July 7th, 2021 assassination of the President Jovenel Moïse.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American legislators here on Friday expressed profound outrage over the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in overturning the almost 50-year-old landmark case Roe v. Wade that gives women a constitutional right to an abortion. 

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands – Guyana’s Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni K. Singh, has the governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) not to allow their first face-to-face meeting in two years to turn into a false sense of post-pandemic normalcy.

WASHINGTON, DC – The White House says that Jamaican American nurse, Dr. Sandra Lindsay, is among 17 Americans named by President Biden to be recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Prime Minister-elect, Dickon Mitchell, Friday told Grenadians that he and his victorious National Democratic Congress (NDC) would spend the next 15 years transforming Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique as he savored victory over the incumbent New National Party (NNP) of outgoing Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell in Thursday’s general election.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government says it is strategically positioning the country as a globally competitive logistics hub, and an efficient investment destination in a bid to take advantage of a new wave of US multibillion-dollar investments projected for the Caribbean region, which will create myriad opportunities for economic growth and development.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American candidate for Governor of New York Jumaane D. Williams Tuesday night resoundingly lost in his bid to unseat incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul in the New York Democratic Primary. 

WASHINGTON, DC – The Washington-based Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) is hosting the 24^th annual Caribbean American Legislative Week that will allow for Caribbean Americans to advocate for their interests.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The United States says it is committed to working with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic to form three high-level committees tasked with developing “immediate and concrete, joint, and near-term solutions.”