NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, is calling for United States federal resources to assist with arriving asylum seekers in New York City, after New York experienced a sharp increase in asylum seekers from Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions.
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EUGENE, Oregon – Veteran sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed to her fifth 100 meters World title here Sunday night in record-breaking time, leading a Jamaican sweep of the podium spots in a thrilling final at Hayward Field.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States says it is “strongly encouraging” international partners to consider contributing to the United Nations security basket fund, and or increasing support, to combat insecurity in Haiti.
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.
The block on 122nd Street, between Lenox Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, was co-named on June 25 in honor of the late co-founder of the Antigua and Barbuda Progressive Society, Inc. (ABPS), Bishop James P. Roberts, Sr.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Department of State has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on 28 Cuban officials pursuant to US Presidential Proclamation 5377 that suspends nonimmigrant entry into the United States of officers and employees of the Cuban government and Cuban Communist Party.
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 24th annual Caribbean American Legislative Week that will allow for Caribbean Americans to advocate for their interests.