NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has launched the city’s first asylum seeker arrival center as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in NYC daily. Adams also announced the placement of what will be the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – Premier Natalio Wheatley says the United States should do more to help the British Virgin Islands to stem the flow of guns.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Candace Bon says Washington has pumped in excess of US$800 million to reduce illegal arms trafficking and increase public security in the region.

MIAMI, FL – The United States Coast Guard says the termination of Title 42 public health order does not alter the maritime migration policies for migrants, saying the measure never applied to migrants interdicted at sea.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer on Wednesday announced the confirmation of a Jamaican-American to serve as a district judge on the prestigious United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY).

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has paid tribute to the United States civil rights activist and humanitarian, Harry Belafonte, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York home on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday joined her California counterpart, Linda T. Sánchez, in introducing in the United States House of Representatives the US Citizenship Act of 2023 that Clarke described as “a bold, inclusive and humane vision for the future of the United States immigration system.”

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Two men were killed during a shootout with police after gunmen fired upon and set fire to a police station in Pikin Saron, south of the capital, on Tuesday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Immigration officials in the United States have refused to give an explanation after a mobile phone belonging to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Toussaint Jr.- Thomas, who was traveling through the United States en route to China. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has urged regional tourism officials to set the pace regarding the ownership of the Caribbean’s major foreign exchange earner.

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States government has announced sweeping new measures to further reduce unlawful migration.

BALTIMORE, Maryland - Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has lashed out at the concept of democracy as practiced through the self-serving prism of the West, “where the litmus test of a democratic society is determined by whether the leader, who is chosen in free and fair elections, is acceptable to Western eyes or subscribes to the precepts of a capitalist state.”