The Jamaica Manufacturers Association has urged the Portia Simpson-Miller administration to hold Trinidad & Tobago to commitments made to the region as outlined in the Treaty...
Protestors in Haiti march against a court citizenship ruling in neighbouring Dominican Republic. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday to criticize a recent court...
Vincent Gray (pictured), has declared his candidacy for a second term as the mayor of Washington D.C., settling a question that had hung over city politics...
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago – the two largest economies in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), have signed an agreement outlining a path to improve free trade...
U.S. President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said on Tuesday that more than 1 million new visitors had checked out the HealthCare.gov website on Monday, the...
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have resumed their talks on Tuesday aimed at settling an immigration matter that had threatened to escalate to a trade war...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a World AIDS day event. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative at the National Institutes...
(Reuters) – Americans are getting their first look on Saturday at whether a five-week, round-the-clock technology overhaul has made it easier to use the troubled website...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly said Haiti will not sever trading ties with the Dominican Republic in light of the chaos created by the September 23 constitutional...
Law makers in Jamaica will soon begin a debate on the island-nation’s potential accession to the regional Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and thus disengaging with...
Small businesses won’t be able to buy health insurance via HealthCare.gov until next year, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration announced Wednesday. The delay in functionality for...
Dominica says it has written to the United Kingdom government informing it officially of its intention to cut ties with the London-based Privy Council in favor...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) chats with former Los Angeles Lakers great Magic Johnson (l) during the Carrier Classic college basketball game between the University of...
(CaribJournal) – Haiti and the Dominican Republic have begun talks on the controversial citizenship ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court regarding Dominicans of Haitian descent....
Jean-Philippe Désir. PHOTO/F. Perry/AFP Late last year, the ruling Socialist Party in France voted anti-racism activist Jean-Philippe Désir as its leader, a move that could potentially...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed the move by Democrats to revamp Senate filibuster rules to make it easier for...
A special meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Bureau will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, early next week to address the recent court ruling...
U.S. President Barack Obama presents Oprah Winfrey with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, November 20, 2013. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP U.S. President Barack Obama opened a day...
Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace (l) and St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (r) The latest opinion polls indicate that ruling Unity Labor Party...
Jeh Johnson (pictured), the U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security cleared a key milestone Wednesday...
Ghana President John Mahama. PHOTO/File Ghanaian President John Mahama and all his political appointees have taken a ten percent pay cut in order to boost a...
Incoming Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief. Screen grab/NBC Miami (CBSMiami) – Broward County has a new Mayor and Vice-Mayor. In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the...
The Dominican Republic has taken prompt action to avoid a threat of suspension from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe energy program. St Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph...
Thousands of critics of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly staged protest marches on Monday, some ripping down billboards of the president and vowing to drive him from...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep...
Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw (r) with the then Prime Minister and current opposition leader Andrew Holness. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner (Reuters) – Jamaica’s opposition leader fended off...
Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed. PHOTO/File Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed was elected to a second term Tuesday, defeating three little known challengers as he continues to raise...
Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda. PHOTO/File (AFP) – Zambia’s ex-president Rupiah Banda pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of illicitly receiving election campaign vehicles and...
African American voters. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – A Wisconsin state law requiring voters to present photo identification went on trial in federal court on Monday, with critics...
Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has hinted at a general election within the next 4 months. The last general election was held in March...
Antigua & Barbuda is celebrating its 32nd anniversary of political independence from Britain on Friday with the traditional military parade, the presentation of national awards to...
In an unofficial referendum, residents of a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan said they want to join South Sudan. The outcome, announced Wednesday, is...
Newly sworn in Sen. Cory Booker (l), his mother Carolyn with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid New Jersey’s Cory Booker has been sworn in as a...
Jean Louis Robinson – a former health minister in Madagascar backed by ousted President Marc Ravalomanana took the lead in early vote counting in presidential elections,...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe (PRNewswire) – The owner of the Haiti Observateur Group and Leo Joseph, its owner, agreed to the dismissal of a lawsuit...
Mia Mottley – Head of opposition Barbados Labor Party. PHOTO/File The main opposition Barbados Labor Party (BLP) Sunday put its supporters on standby for a general...
The new Immigration Reform Bill for the Cayman Islands which was passed by legislators last week, will become law on Monday, extending the term limit for...
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has reiterated that a motion of no confidence filed against...
The coalition People’s Partnership Party of Prime Minister Kamla Persaud-Bissessar appeared heading for a third consecutive defeat in the local government elections held on Monday three...
Trinidadians are voting in local government elections on Monday following a bitter and acrimonious campaign reminiscent of a general election in this oil rich twin-island nation....
On October 1, 2013, the federal bureaucracy of the world’s richest economy was partially shut down. To many, this was, simply ridiculous. Cynics...
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller joins a cadre of female heads of government and global women leaders to be inducted...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement about the re-opening of government following a 2 week shutdown. PHOTO/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Facing a deadline, Congress passed and...
Incoming U.S. Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Democrat Cory Booker, the charismatic mayor of Newark, was the unofficial winner of a New...
Malawi President Joyce Banda. PHOTO/AFP Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has named a former African Union economist as the new finance minister, five days after dissolving her...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File It is now becoming apparent that popular Newark Mayor Cory Booker will be the next senator next senator from New Jersey....
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Republicans, particularly in the House, pushed for a government shutdown and then threatened not to increase the federal debt ceiling...
Antigua & Barbuda has launched its “Citizenship by Investment Program” with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer saying the initiative is to generate investments and jobs for nationals...
On January 21, 2017, we predict that the drag on the U.S. economy will, finally, be lifted. Just as would have happened if Mitt Romney had...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional Republican leaders moved to end their fiscal impasse on Friday, but struggled to...
Former Jamaica prime minister Percival James (PJ) Patterson has indicated that the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping needs to strongly condemn recent developments in the Dominican...
U.S. President Barack Obama (r) with Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives John Boehner (l). PHOTO/AP U.S. President Obama again urged House Speaker John Boehner,...
Haiti said Saturday that it “strongly disagrees” with a court ruling in the Dominican Republic that strips citizenship from the children of Haitian migrants. The Martelly...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is cancelling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Business leaders in the United States are taking sides with Democratic President Barack Obama after failing to persuade their traditional Republican...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses nation regarding government shutdown in the Rose Garden of the White House. PHOTO/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled two...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama said on the first day of a partial federal government shutdown that House Republicans are on an...
Charles Savarin (pictured), was elected President of the Commonwealth of Dominica on Monday with opposition legislators boycotting the event. Savarin, a former diplomat and trade unionist,...
African American voters The U.S. Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort...
Audley Shaw. PHOTO/File Jamaica’s former finance minister Audley Shaw has formally launched his campaign to become the leader of the opposition Jamaica Labor Party. Audley Shaw...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed today to keep using an otherwise routine federal...
U.S. President Barack Obama is appointing the woman behind the television series “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees. Shonda...
Dominica National Security Minister Charles Savarin (pictured), has resigned from the Cabinet. His departure paves the way for his nomination as ruling party’s candidate for the...
The Recently appointed chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, Dr. Herbert Thompson (pictured) has resigned. Thompson stepped down from the position last night following calls...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses The UN General Assembly, September 21, 2011. PHOTO/Spencer Platt/Getty Images Seeking to build on diplomatic opportunities, U.S. President Barack Obama is...
Rick Wade (pictured), a former senior adviser in the Obama administration and deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Commerce Department, is reportedly considering a run...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will try to put some distance between himself and a battle with Republicans over government...
Haitian President Michel Martelly and former President Jean Bertrand Aristide at their previous meeting in 2011. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly has held a private meeting...
U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will ask to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the...
Jamaica is joining its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago, in supporting the agreement reached between the United States and Russia regarding...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he would not negotiate with Congress over whether to raise the U.S....
Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw (r) with the then Prime Minister and current opposition leader Andrew Holness. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner The opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) will...
Voters in Orangeburg have elected Michael C. Butler (pictured), as the city’s first African-American mayor. Butler won a four-year term with 53 percent of the vote....
Speaker of Dominica legislator, Hon. Alix Boyd-Knights Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday confirmed that the Speaker of the Dominica Parliament, Alix Boyd-Knights has requested that...
U.S. President Barack Obama postponed his threat to strike Syria, after Bashar al-Assad’s regime welcomed a Russian plan to gather and destroy its chemical arsenal. In...
U.S. President Barack Obama is going to Congress on Tuesday with fresh hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough that would allow Syria’s government to avoid U.S. missile...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Mayor Cory Booker is stepping down from the board of an Internet start-up he helped found, as his campaign provided tax...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/File Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reshuffled her cabinet placing appointing Gary Griffith the new National...
Kenya’s parliament on Thursday passed a motion to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) just before the country’s deputy president face trial at The Hague...
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the media in the Cabinet Room of the White House, September 3, 2013, before a meeting with leaders of Congress to...
Outgoing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, Wallace Jefferson. PHOTO/AP Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson plans to resign effective October 1 2013....
Former Grenada Governor General Paul Scoon. PHOTO/File Paul Scoon, who was Grenada’s governor general during the U.S. invasion of the small island in 1983, has died...
Image merge of U.S. President Barack Obama and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Courtesy of BET U.S. President Barack Obama will lead his nation in...
Nigeria President.,Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election hopes have suffered a major dent after his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) split into two following...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. PHOTO/Mary F. Calvert/AP Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has criticised North Carolina’s new restrictive voting law in...
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. PHOTO/Reuters Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has indicated a willingness for “tit-for-tat” retaliation against companies from Britain and the United States on Sunday...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. PHOTO/File Toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak left jail for under house arrest on Thursday but his release stirred little reaction as Egypt...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama has issued a formal endorsement of Democrat Cory Booker in New Jersey’s special U.S. Senate race. In...
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has revealed that he is contemplating calling a general election ahead of the 2015 constitutional deadline....
Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw (r) with the then Prime Minister and current opposition leader Andrew Holness. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner There is a possibility that Jamaica’s opposition...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama returned to Washington on Sunday after a brief summer vacation readying for what is expected to be a...
U.S. President Barack Obama is pledging to do everything he can to make sure the new health care law works the way he intended. In his...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that the United States is cancelling joint military exercises with Egypt next...
Egypt’s government has slapped a month-long nighttime curfew on the capital Cairo and 10 provinces. Wednesday’s decision was announced shortly after interim President Adly Mansour declared...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Newark Mayor Cory Booker is on track to clinching the Democratic nomination for New Jersey’s open Senate seat today, with polls...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured), is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh prison...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is slowly recovering but he remains in a...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. PHOTO/File The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have given their official endorsement to encourage President Obama to nominate Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as...
Grenada joins St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda and Dominica in what is becoming an increasing trend of Caribbean countries offering citizenship in exchange for...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l), greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012. PHOTO/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti,Presidential Press Service...
Jamaica is celebrating its 51st anniversary of political independence from Britain, Tuesday, with the island-nation lauding the achievements in sports, education, and the creative arts while...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation’s mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie...
The Senate voted in dramatic fashion Wednesday to approve one of President Barack Obama’s nominees. For Democrats to prevail, all it took was a last-ditch vote...
A bipartisan bill that would lower the costs of borrowing for millions of students is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature. The House on Wednesday gave final...
Jamaica government has reiterated its commitment to the regional integration movement – the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and dismissed calls for the island-nation to quit the 15-member...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama, seeking to break Washington’s fiscal stalemate, is proposing cutting corporate tax rates in exchange for more spending on...
Tennessee Rep. Lois DeBerry. PHOTO/AP Tennessee Rep. Lois DeBerry, one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the United States and a powerful influence in state politics,...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. PHOTO/File U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is in Philadelphia to discuss how voting rights could be affected by a recent Supreme...
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (pictured), has welcomed a plan by New York City to aid undocumented Caribbean immigrants. New York City officials say the city will...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP AP – The office of the South African president says Nelson Mandela has made a “sustained improvement”...
Under pressure – St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas St. Vincent & the Grenadines Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace is calling on St. Kitts &...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File Drawing renewed attention to the economy, President Barack Obama will return this week to an Illinois college where he once spelled...
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. PHOTO/File Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday he won’t be a candidate for president in 2016, even as speculation about his...
U.S. President Barack Obama President Barack Obama has little to show so far for a second term stifled by political inertia at home and foreign crises...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, a former president of South...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Cory Booker raised US$4.6 million for his U.S. Senate campaign in the past three months—a significant showing of financial strength with...
African American lawmakers on Tuesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment but remains...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a previous engagement hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. PHOTO/File U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with black...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP A grandson of Nelson Mandela said Tuesday the ailing former president is very much alive, while the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will describe on Monday his second-term plan for “smarter government” by using technology and data to...
U.S. Rep James Clyburn. PHOTO/File Congressman James Clyburn (Democrat – South Carolina), has been tasked by House Democrats in the U.S. Congress to lead efforts to...
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas The Opposition in St. Kitts & Nevis has withdrawn a court challenge to the delay in the tabling...
Then mayor of Charlotte NC., Anthony Foxx, addresses the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 4, 2012. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Transportation Department says former Charlotte, N.C., Mayor...
Former U.S. Rep. William H. Gray III. PHOTO/AP Former U.S. Rep. William H. Gray III, who rose to influential positions in Congress and was the first...
The Grenada government has closed the doors of its Consular Office in New York as it seeks to conform to international regulations regarding the appointment of...
The challenges of regional travel will be placed on the front burner at the upcoming meeting of heads of Government from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)....
Simba Makoni. PHOTO/File Zimbabwe presidential contender Simba Makoni has withdrawn his candidacy in a bid to back a single candidate that will run and possibly defeat...
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Section...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/File Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has handed over computer equipment to the police as investigations continue...
Obama visits his grandmother in Kenya before his presidency By Yetnayet Z. Demissie and Dennis Matanda While its well within some people’s right to gripe about...
Epsy Campbell Barr Epsy Campbell Barr, an Afro-Latina has declared that she is seeking the Presidency of Costa Rican. If she wins the next presidential election...
A younger Barack Obama with his grandmother during his first trip to Africa to visit the family of his father, Barack Obama, Sr. PHOTO/Maya Soetoro-Ng President...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else....
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (PRNewswire via COMTEX) – Third-term Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio, the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, will address the state of...
Immediate former deputy prime minister Sam Condor, and former cabinet minister Timothy Harris have officially broken ranks with Prime Minister Denzil Douglas and have formed a...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l), greets Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012. PHOTO/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti,Presidential Press Service...
William “Mo” Cowan. PHOTO/AP The sole Democratic African-American senator cast doubt on the need for a “black agenda” from the president and on its chances of...
Sub-Saharan Africa is more peaceful than commonly perceived, according to a new Global Peace Index (GPI) report, although levels of violence remain high in North Africa...
Kenyans protesting against salary demands of their legislators. PHOTO/Thomas Mukoya/Reuters (Reuters) – Kenyan members of parliament, among the best paid in Africa, have bowed to public...
Bernice Fidelia Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe’s office says that a cabinet member has resigned amid charges she’s American. The departure of Bernice Fidelia (pictured), the outgoing...
Moved by the Assad regime’s rapid advance, the Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for the beleaguered Syrian rebels and will weigh...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Saturday formally announced he’s in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term of the late...
Lucie Tondreau Lucie Tondreau has been voted North Miami’s first every Haitian-American mayor. She defeated her nearest opponent Kevin Burns with 55.7 percent of the vote...
Newly elected Premier of the Cayman Islands, Alden McLaughlin (pictured), has finalized his cabinet and the allocation of duties for his new ministers. The complete cabinet...
Ambassador Susan Rice. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to appoint U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice as his national security adviser, replacing...
U.S. President Barack Obama and his judicial nominees. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Issuing a forceful challenge to Senate Republicans, President Barack Obama nominated three judges to the influential...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele says he is considering running for governor in Maryland. Steele, who also...
China’s new president Xi Jingping arrives in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, for a three-day visit during which time he will meet with Caribbean Community...
U.S. President Barack Obama signing transportation bill that would also prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling. July 6, 2012. PHOTO/Getty Images The government’s subsidized...
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has described as “an act of desperation” efforts by the...
(Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said regional leaders will hold a summit to discuss how to fund an election later this year. Cash strapped Zimbabwe...
Alden McLaughlin (pictured), has become the new premier of the Cayman Islands after several days of negotiations by lawmakers. His People’s Progressive Movement party won 9...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that St. Lucia does not require a referendum before becoming a full member of the Trinidad &...
The opposition People’s Progressive Movement led by Alden McLaughlin (pictured), has won the elections in the Cayman Islands, however, McLaughlin will need to form a coalition...
Mia Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, addresses the Republican National Convention, August 28 2012. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love wants another...
Incumbent Cayman Islands Premier Julianna O’Connor Connolly Voters in the Cayman Islands are going to the polls today to elect a new government with political observers...
Devastation following tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. PHOTO/Gene Blevins/Corbis U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of “one of...
The Republican convention in Virginia nominated firebrand conservative minister E.W. Jackson (pictured), for Virginia lieutenant governor. Jackson is the first African American, the Republican party has...
The coalition People’s Partnership government Monday strenuously denied allegations that it was engaged in attempts to undermine the judiciary and the media and dismissed as “frivolous...
Detroit Mayor, Dave Bing Detroit Mayor Dave Bing ripped Michigan officials Tuesday for failing to deliver on promises and then announced he won’t seek re-election in...
Haitian President Michel Martelly Haiti’s President Michel Martelly is defending his record since taking office two years ago./p Among some of the accomplishments Martelly has achieved...
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (pictured), has launched a bid to become the next governor of the state of Maryland. If he succeeds, he will become the...
Ambassador Carlton Masters Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has appointed Carlton Masters as the island-nation’s first Representative to the African Union. He, (Masters) has also been...
Volunter participates in shelter construction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO/File (PRWire) – Port-au-Prince – At the opening ceremony of the first meeting of the Committee on Coordination...
Jaime Harrison South Carolina Democrats elected their first black party chairman, Jaime Harrison. Harrison will succeed outgoing Chairman Dick Harpootlian. He is a former state party...
Keith Rowley The leader of the opposition party in Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Keith Rowley says he is filing a motion of no confidence in the...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appeared in public for the first time since returning from exile more than...
Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam was confirmed on Monday by the State Senate in Albany, becoming the first African-American woman on the seven-member Court of...
The first ever female Governor General of Grenada was sworn into office on Tuesday with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell saying that her inauguration serves as...
Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie. PHOTO/File The ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) of The Bahamas is celebrating its first year in office reminding citizens that they...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to rebuild his political party as the country prepares for legislative and local...
Chad has arrested a group of people for conspiring in what the government described as a “destabilization plot” in the landlocked central African country, which has...
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt (pictured), to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae...
The party of Cameroon’s incumbent president Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation’s first-ever senatorial election, the Supreme Court announced. Supreme...
The first draft was as mind-numbing and complex as tax forms. Now the Obama administration is unveiling a simplified application for health insurance benefits under the...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images African Americans voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the White turnout...
Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, NC., addresses the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 4, 2012. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate...
Press Release Washington DC – The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to the NC House Vote...
U.S. President Barack Obama stands with former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter, at the opening of the George W....
Ambassador Courtney Rattray. PHOTO/JIS Ambassador Courtney Rattray has been appointed Jamaica’s new Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Rattray has been serving as...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Washington DC – On Wednesday morning, April 24 at 9am, the African American Leadership Council will host a press conference at the National Press...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto (r) as he makes his cabinet nominations announcement. PHOTO/Billy Mutai Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta made his...
U.S. President Obama waves as he leaves the White House. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is not injured and there have not been explosions at the White...
Press Release The 2013 White House Initiative’s Year-round Internship Program provides current undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to learn about African American-focused education policy,...
Human rights groups in Haiti are demanding the United Nations be held more accountable after a Canadian police officer who was suspected of sexually assaulting a...
The president of the North Carolina NAACP is calling for religious leaders to organize non-violent protests to bring attention to what he considers a Republican crusade...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Sunday night announced that her embattled National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner (pictured), has resigned less than 72 hours...
Haiti, which earlier this year hosted the “historic” summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, is getting ready to host another major summit this month, informed sources...
Civil Servants have ended their battle with government for a 9.5 percent wage increase, with a stunning decision to settle for a wage freeze. After an...
The chancellor of the University College of the Caribbean, Dr. Herbert Thompson has been appointed he new chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica. Thompson replaces...
Robin Kelly, (c) in a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony with House Speaker John Boehner. PHOTO/Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Former Illinois state Rep. Robin Kelly was sworn in Thursday...
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in South Sudan on Friday for the first time since Africa’s once-largest country split in 2011, raising cautious hopes the...
U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget while acting Director of Office of Management and Budget Jerry Zients looks on. PHOTO/Reuters (Reuters) –...
The Central Bank of Barbados Tuesday said that the local economy contracted by 0.4 percent in the first three months of 2013 and urged the authorities...
Opposition legislators Tuesday boycotted the presentation of the national budget insisting that the long tabled vote of no confidence in the Dr. Denzil Douglas administration be...
U.S. President Barack Obama with Vice President Joseph Biden and relatives of gun violence victims. PHOTO/Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Barack Obama is providing rides to 11...
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas The majority of elected legislators in St Kitts & Nevis’ parliament have presented an application for an interim...
Assistant Secy.,Johnnie Carson The head of the U.S State Department’s Africa Bureau, Johnnie Carson, formally retired on March 29 ending a career that spans 44 years....