PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad says she remains confident that the courts will “deliver a just result” with respect to her Housing Minister, Dr. David Lee, who along with a businessman, had been taken into custody by police on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Friday announced the appointment of Nicole Flora Boni Kouassi of Côte d’Ivoire as his new Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and Resident Coordinator in Haiti.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Venezuela is seeking closer ties with Suriname and has described as “ a new beginning” discussions held on Monday between Finance and Planning Minister, Adelien Wijnerman and the Venezuelan Ambassador, Ms. Ayezim Y. Flores Rivas,

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad –  The former president of  the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, Monday said the region has every confidence that under the stewardship of Justice Winston Anderson, the court “will not only flourish but will firmly secure its place as the indispensable guardian of justice in our region”.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has quietly carried out a minor re-shuffle of her cabinet less than six months after winning the April 28 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agriculture ministers meet here on Tuesday focusing on a wide range of issues including the status and trends in fisheries and aquaculture production, trade, and employment; initiatives to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and a new grievance redress mechanism for the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM).

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Government and opposition lawmakers Tuesday closed ranks and elected retired Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Davidson Bostic as Barbados’ second president.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she remains confident that an agreement could be reached with regards to the Dragon gas deal involving Venezuela and that she was prepared to lead the local delegation to Caracas for the discussions.

UNITED NATIONS – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Friday called for a new rules-based society saying that she sees no future for the global community without such a system.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Tuesday said that judicial warrants had been issued for the “apprehension” of the Minister of Housing David Lee and businessman Hugh Leong Poi.

ROSEAU, Dominica - Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Monday urged Caribbean countries against sowing “seeds of discord among ourselves” maintaining his adopted position of many years that he would not be commenting publicly on statements made by regional leaders.

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, says Haiti is “at the eye of a storm” with armed gangs tearing apart communities and families being forced from their homes.