NEW YORK, New York – The Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA), a unified association of Black and other minority lawyers in New York State, has announced the commencement of the term of its Jamaican-American President Carl Forbes, Jr. 

NASSAU, Bahamas – A High Court judge Monday night agreed with the Bahamas government that a strike by hundreds of airport workers was illegal and ordered them back to work.

WASHINGTON, DC – United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett has lauded the passage of the Caribbean Trade Resolution (H.Res 1168) in the US House of Representatives, which reaffirms the economic partnership between the United States and the Caribbean. 

NEW YORK, New York – The Barbadian-born Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have joined the fight to protect voting rights at the US Supreme Court by filing an amicus brief supporting Black Alabamian voters who are fighting against racially gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The main opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), Monday welcomed the announcement of the August 5 general election date, saying it brings to an end “an experiment that has been marked by scandals, corruption and greed.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – India says it regards St. Lucia as a gateway to the wider CARICOM grouping as the two countries acknowledged the potential to increase cooperation.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize has launched its National Child Labour Policy and Strategy 2022-2025 amid concerns that an estimated five thousand children are engaged in some form of work that presents a real danger to their physical, mental, and moral well-being.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize parliament Friday approved of legislation re-instating the 10 percent cut in salaries to public servants that the John Briceño government had instituted in 2021.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceño is asking Belizeans, who are paying more for basic food items, to bear with his administration as it joins other Caribbean nations in seeking a remedy to the high inflation caused by increased global prices for oil and gas.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – Hundreds of people took to the streets here on Monday demanding the resignation of President Chandrikapersad ‘Chan’ Santokhi if he fails to change the socio-economic policies of his two-year old administration that they say have brought untold hardship on the population.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris Sunday night announced August 5 as the date for the long-awaited general election, telling supporters of his People’s Labour Party (PLP) that he Is “confident” of being returned to office “to continue the wonderful job we have been doing”.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has reiterated a call for the United States to remove its decades’ old trade and economic embargo against Cuba as a Cuban diplomat here predicts “one day we will celebrate the end of the blockade”.