ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has brushed aside calls by the opposition for President Charles Savarin to rescind the writ for the December 6 snap general elections, insisting that the polls will go ahead two years ahead of the constitutional deadline.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The High Commission of India here, has announced that the Government of India will be hosting President Irfaan Ali as the Chief Guest of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention (Indian Diaspora Day) which will be held from January 08, 2023 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The process of Jamaica becoming a republic will take at least several months in Parliament, according to Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte.

NEW YORK, New York – After her landslide victory in midterm elections in the United States, Caribbean American legislator Monique Chandler-Waterman has thanked voters in New York’s 58th State Assembly District in Brooklyn for her electing her for her first two-year-term.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Sunday night announced December 6 as the date for a snap general election in Dominica, three years after he led the ruling Dominica Labour Party (DLP) to a convincing 18-3 victory in the general election of 2019.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – As Jamaica and the United Kingdom (UK) mark 60 years of diplomatic ties, the countries are moving to strengthen relations in the areas of climate change, security, and trade at the bilateral and multilateral levels.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The National assembly has approved Suicide Prevention Bill 2022 decriminalizing suicide in Guyana and marking a major step in the country’s move to address mental health countrywide

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A decision recently made by the administration of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, to rename Independence Day, has been reversed following backlash by several citizens.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Sacked Transport Minister Lawrence Scott says he was “surprised, but not bitter” after being dumped from Premier David Burt’s streamlined new cabinet.

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Premier David Burt has ruled out seeking independence from Britain during the lifetime of the current parliament due to end in 2025, but says Bermuda needs to have a serious conversation about the thorny issue of sovereignty.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Nov 1, CMC – Former president Desi Bouterse declared before the Court of Justice on Monday that he had not killed anyone in December 1982. However, he accepted political responsibility for the murders of 15 of his political opponents because he was the head of government at the time.

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Premier David Burt has sacked two of his Cabinet ministers in a shake-up following his victory in a Progressive Labour Party (PLP) leadership battle against Curtis Dickinson last week.