U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (l) and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs...
Former Jamaica Prime Minister Edward Seaga. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica has held a special joint sitting of Parliament to honor former Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Seaga attended...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got a poll boost from his strong debate performance against President Barack Obama...
Job applicants fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have sparred over economic...
Malawi President Joyce Banda Malawi President Joyce Banda announced that she will take a 30 percent pay cut to show that she will sacrifice personally as...
Jamaica Prime Minister.,Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in a case where attorneys representing Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller say she should be...
Newly sworn in Trinidad & Tobago Minister of Justice, Christlyn Moore (C) speaks to media. PHOTO/GoTT Christlyn Moore has been sworn in as the new minister...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Just five weeks before the November general election, a Pennsylvania judge reversed himself and blocked the state’s strict voter...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Susan Rice The Obama administration is rejecting a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker for the U.S. ambassador to the United...
Several thousand people have poured into the streets of Haiti’s capital to protest the government of President Michel Martelly. Demonstrators’ complaints included the high cost of...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are hunkering down for intense preparations ahead...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Five weeks to U.S. Election Day, President Barack Obama is within reach of the...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images Throughout Milwaukee voter registration events were held on Tuesday, September 25 in recognition of National Voter Registration day. Members of...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama warned Democrats about becoming too complacent with six weeks left before...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack...
If the Senate were representative of the U.S. population, 13 of its 100 members would be African-American. But there have been only six black senators in...
The Congressional Black Caucus held a series of events throughout the country on Tuesday to educate communities on voter suppression laws and to help ensure eligible...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 53%-44% in Florida, 53%-43% in Ohio and 54%-42%...
Trinidad and Tobago is celebrating its 36th year as a republic on Monday with contrasting messages from the political directorate in the oil rich twin island...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at the polls...
Dr. Elsie Scott president and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. PHOTO/File Elsie Scott has dedicated her life to justice and education. Maybe that’s because,...
U.S. President Barack Obama on the campaign trail earlier this year. PHOTO/File In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted...
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug 27, 2008. PHOTO/Ron Edmonds/AP California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters will not be charged with...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas The embattled Tillman Thomas administration has faced another resignation as Grenada’s ongoing political drama continues. Environment Minister, Glynnis Roberts submitted her...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. PHOTO/File A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious” released Wednesday found no evidence...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama has emerged from the conventions of both political parties with a...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Already scrambling to steady a struggling campaign, Republican Mitt Romney confronted a new headache Monday after a video surfaced showing...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Grenada’s governor general has discontinued a parliamentary session, allowing Prime Minister Tillman Thomas to avoid debate on a no-confidence motion...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Competing for white working-class voters, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney squared off...
Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File (Jamaica Observer) – Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has said that her administration has been working hard to secure additional...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Florida’s attempt to screen voter rolls for non-U.S. citizens is yielding a smaller number than state officials had anticipated....
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe A Haitian-American journalist sued by Haiti’s prime minister in a defamation lawsuit is standing by his reporting. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s prime minister has sued a Haitian-American weekly newspaper for defamation over its reporting on the sale of a telecommunications...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour As many as 700,000 minority voters under age 30 may be unable to cast a ballot in November because...
President Barack Obama first lady Michelle Obama, and members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of...
Jamaica Prime Minister.,Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica’s prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller is calling on private companies in the Caribbean country to each hire at least one more...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and Democrats pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney and Republicans in...
The ruling People’s National Party (PNP) government of Jamaica and the parliamentary Opposition (Jamaica Labor Party – JLP) remain on a collision course over the planned...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on this much: The 2012 election is...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Several leaders within the National Baptist Convention and the NAACP plan a rally in Atlanta to call attention to...
U.S. President Barack Obama looks at cars at the DC Auto Show at the Convention Center, January 31, 2012 on Washington, DC. PHOTO/Olivier Douliery/UPI America’s big...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller with Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/Ranu Abhelakh/Reuters Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday urged her...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File Democrats sought to push foreign policy, one of President Barack Obama’s strengths, to the...
On August 31, Trinidad & Tobago marked its 50th year of independence from Britain. In the heady period of the late fifties, early sixties, up until...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama’s campaign to give all voters...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, battling to ensure the survival of his government, is to address the nation at 8:00pm...
President Obama talks with students after he called on Congress to stop interest rates on student loans on June 21, 2012. PHOTO/Susan Walsh/AP As college students...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama said Mitt Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire) — With many citing the economy as the most important issue for the...
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love speaks at the Republican state convention, Saturday, April 21, 2012 in Sandy, Utah. PHOTO/Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP Photo Utah congressional...
Condoleezza Rice has lived a life of firsts: first black woman to be Secretary of State, first black woman to be national security adviser and the...
The Bahamas government says it will hold a referendum on gambling but it will not extend to casinos. Prime Minister Perry Christie told legislators that his...
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. The National Association...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama can claim victory over Mitt Romney in the digital arena at...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Members of the African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC), a program of People For the American Way Foundation, spoke...
U.S. President Barack Obama, (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video,...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama’s campaign says Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan...
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. addresses the audience at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. PHOTO/Richards/AFP/Getty...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Two states that Barack Obama won in 2008 – after going for former...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (pictured), has made changes to his cabinet. The cabinet re-shuffle was announced in an e-mail late Monday by the Prime Minister’s...
Cayman Islands Premier., McKeeva Bush. PHOTO/File Premier McKeeva Bush has raised the ire of thousands of expatriates and Caymanians alike over his move to close budget...
A new report advises against the swift departure of a United Nations mission in Haiti despite debate over the peacekeeping force’s eight-year presence. The International Crisis...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama holds an advantage over Republican Mitt Romney in three swing...
The new prime minister of Togo has put together a transitional government following months of political turmoil in the tiny West African country. An announcement read...
African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne.com President Barack Obama signed a highly acclaimed executive order July 26, one that will significantly improve the education of African Americans....
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP Former President Bill Clinton will have a marquee role in this summer’s Democratic...
Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding. PHOTO/File Former prime minister Bruce Golding has left Jamaica on Sunday for medical treatment. Golding, who resigned from office last...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour An election official in Pennsylvania has said that he will not enforce the state’s voter I.D. law. Christopher Broach,...
Jamaica has taken a major step toward making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) it’s final appelate court. Leader of the House of Representatives Phillip Paulwell...
The government of Haiti is promising to hold legislative and local elections before the end of the year. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said at a Tuesday...
Judge Michael Shipp. PHOTO/Carmen Natale The Senate voted nearly unanimously Monday to confirm Michael Shipp to be a judge for the District of New Jersey, even...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP (Reuters) – Sustained attacks by President Barack Obama’s campaign on Republican rival Mitt...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago., Patrick Manning. PHOTO/Reuters Former prime minister Patrick Manning says he is recuperating well in Washington after suffering a mild...
Former Prime Minister of The Bahamas., Hubert Ingraham. PHOTO/BIS/Sharon Turner Former Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Hubert Ingraham has handed his resignation letter to House Speaker...
President Barack Obama at Prime Osborn Convention Center on July 19, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. PHOTO/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Barack Obama is warning Florida retirees that...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/AP President Barack Obama is trying to keep the pressure on rival Mitt Romney,...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP (Reuters) – High voter turnout among African Americans helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008 but a black rights group...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is preparing to tell voters in the crucial industrial state...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour In the late ’90s, the Internet belched forth a rumor that the Voting Rights Act was soon to expire...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, Thursday, July 12, 2012. PHOTO/Pat Sullivan/AP President Barack Obama has asked The National Association for the...
Botswana Vice President., Mompati Merafhe. PHOTO/File The Vice President of Botswana, Mompati Merafhe, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this month due...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s slim lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government have agreed that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will be the final appellate court for the region. This was...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File Seeking an election-year fight over taxes, President Barack Obama is hitting the road...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), vows to register 1 million new voters in time for the November elections to overturn what...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, starting with an address from the...
South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (l) and Incumbent African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping (r). PHOTO/File The battle for greater influence in Africa between Nigeria and South...
Basket Ball super stars Kobe Bryant (l) and LeBron James. PHOTO/File Blake Griffin, Andre Iguodala and James Harden were chosen Saturday to complete the roster for...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says its newest battle is really an old one. This year’s NAACP national convention, which kicks...
Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. PHOTO/Devon Ravine/AP Women are being considered as possible candidates to run with Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on the November ballot,...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needs to move faster with implementing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). This was revealed by Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File For the first time since April, President Obama has opened up a sustained...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (l) and Incumbent African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping (r). PHOTO/File South Africa on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort for its candidate to head...
Then Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain waves to the crowd before a Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Las Vegas. PHOTO/Isaac Brekken/AP Herman...
Senator Yvonne Miller, 77, had been ill for some time with cancer. PHOTO/File Senator Yvonne B. Miller, the longest-serving woman in the Virginia Senate, died Tuesday,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In the presidential battleground with the biggest prize, Democrat Barack Obama is focused...
St. Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony. PHOTO/File St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has officially assumed the role of chair of the Caribbean Community...
Senegal President Macky Sall. PHOTO/File Senegal’s presidential coalition looked headed for a sweeping victory in legislative elections which were marked by a low turnout, unofficial results...
Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) speaks during a House Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) Committee. PHOTO/Reuters The vote margin in the Democratic primary between U.S. Representative Charles...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File In promoting the health care law, President Barack Obama is repeating his persistent...
Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (r) Welcomes CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. PHOTO/File Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque says Jamaica cannot survive...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File If Barack Obama risked his presidency on passing his health-care reform law, persevering in the face of a groundswell of opposition and...
African American graduates. PHOTO/File Congress ended months of partisan bickering on Friday by passing and sending to President Barack Obama a comprehensive extension of highway and...
Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply. To much...
A South Sudanese boy holds onto the arm of an Israeli aid worker as he boards a bus at the south Tel Aviv bus station to...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing...
Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) speaks during a House Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) Committee. PHOTO/Reuters New York Rep. Charles Rangel has won a primary in his...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent over Mitt Romney in an...
A High Court in Zambia on Tuesday overturned the dissolution of the former ruling party over unpaid fees, arguing the move had been excessive and against...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) began a key policy conference Tuesday that pushes for a “second transition” to give black people more ownership of...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/File Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reshuffled her cabinet, re-assigning the country’s Foreign Minister, Trade Minister,...
Officials and analysts say the party of Uganda’s long-serving ruler appears to have split into rival factions jostling for power in anticipation of the president’s possible...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s not-so-secret counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia, the killing...
A new constitution that takes effect Tuesday gives 2 million citizens of Haiti living abroad more rights in their homeland, including the ability to run for...
Montserrat Premier Reuben Meade. PHOTO/File Opposition Leader Donaldson Romeo has filed a motion of no confidence in the government of Premier Reuben Meade accusing him of...
U.S. President Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama is winning the opening round in the battle over immigration, according...
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. PHOTO/Mitchell Leff Michael Nutter, the mayor of Philadelphia, has been named 70th president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Nutter assumed the...
Trinidad’s Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) political party has withdrawn from the country’s People’s Partnership coalition government. The move was made by MSJ head David Abdulah,...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate., Mitt Romney There’s not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as...
A growing chorus of once-confident Democrats now say President Barack Obama could lose the November election. The hand-wringing reflects real worries among Democrats about Obama’s ability...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new North Carolina poll conducted by the automated pollster (and Democratic affiliated) Public...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is launching a new ad against Republican challenger Mitt Romney,...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama will talk about the nation’s economic woes in remarks at the White House Friday. The White House says President...
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. PHOTO/File Former National Basketball Association star point guard Kevin Johnson has won a second term as mayor of Sacramento. With all the...
U.S. President Barack Obama reaches out to supporters on June 13, 2011 in Miami, Florida. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File After surviving a vote of no confidence, Prime Minister Tillman Thomas is considering reshuffling his cabinet, informed government sources have...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l), and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney(r). PHOTO/File A new survey indicates President Barack Obama with a 12-point lead over Republican challenger...
Jamaica Prime Minister., Portia Simpson-Miller. PHOTO/File Jamaica Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, on Tuesday, announced a raft of measures designed to make more Jamaicans homeowners, ranging from...
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to a supporter. PHOTO/J. Scott Applewhite/AP When President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan, some conservative critics were quick...
John Ehret elected the first ever black mayor in German history John Ehret, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s equivalent...
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has announced a three-member team as part of her administration’s promises to grant internal self government to Tobago....
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look...
Regional leaders mediating in Zimbabwe said they want to see democratic and constitutional reforms before fresh elections can be held next year. The Southern African Development...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (r). PHOTO/File A new poll released Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a wide lead...
The party of Lesotho’s longtime prime minister is just behind the main opposition as vote counting nears completion for the southern African country’s parliamentary elections. With...
The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to...
Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters, black voters, not just to chip away...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama on Thursday continued his assault on Mitt Romney’s business experience, saying the...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president’s historic,...
59 percent of African-Americans in this survey express support for gay marriage – up from 41 percent in combined ABC/Post polls this spring and last summer....
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/File Retire in 2016. This is the message a growing majority of Ugandans are telling President Museveni, a new opinion poll suggests....
U.S. President Barack Obama greets audience members at a democratic party fundraiser in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18, 2012. PHOTO/Jason Reed/REUTERS From extra shifts at auto and...
Incoming Governor General of Barbados., Justice Elliott Belgrave Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has announced that Justice Elliott Belgrave will be conferred Knight of St Andrew...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office. PHOTO/AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister.,Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/NewsDay (Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados. Acting Prime...
Barbados and its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) neighbors will work with Mexico in the area of higher education and in assisting Haiti, still reeling from the ravages...
U.S President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney...
Opposition Leader Owen Arthur (l) and Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. PHOTO/File A poll published in the Sunday Sun newspaper said Barbados citizens preferred the three-term...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts “to...
President Obama opens G8 summit at Camp David. PHOTO/BBC The United States and other members of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations agree that Europe’s...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt...
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (l) speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama during a round table meeting at the G8 summit in Deauville May 27, 2011....
Christiane Taubira., Incoming French Minister of Justice In an unprecedented move in French politics, three black politicians, two of them women and all from France’s overseas...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner dug in Wednesday on their already hardened positions on tax increases versus spending...
Politicians in the nation of Guinea-Bissau say they have signed a deal that would allow the country’s interim leader to choose a prime minister. The political...
President Barack Obama on the campaign trail. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama raised a combined US$43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as...
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. PHOTO/File Across the United States, polished African-American outsiders are upsetting the political machine. Cory Booker’s failed 2002 campaign for mayor of...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has said that he is not worried about the no-confidence motion filed against him by...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year...
President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that...
France has a new president, a new regime and a ‘new’ philosophy in the middle of Europe and a world that had, apparently, gone the way...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
George Clooney and President Barack Obama. PHOTO/Christy Bowe/Landmark Media President Obama’s decision to go public in support of same-sex marriage marked a historic moment for the...
President Barack Obama’s popularity among women, minorities and independents is giving him an early edge over his likely Republican rival, Mitt Romney, according to a new...
Jamaicans could bid farewell to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by the end of the parliamentary year. Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said an...
Bahamas Prime Minister., Perry Christie New Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has announced eight new cabinet appointments, following the decision to name Philip Brave Davis as...
President Barack Obama speaks Tuesday in Washington. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File The Obama administration saw its first monthly budget surplus in April, with the federal government recording US$58 billion, according to figures...
Bahamas Prime Minister-elect., Perry Christie. PHOTO/File Outgoing prime minister and Free National Movement (FNM) leader, Hubert Ingraham has conceded defeat and announced that he will not...
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Perry Christie, left and Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, right. PHOTO/File The Bahamas begins its 2012 election Monday, as voters head to...
Vice President Joe Biden finally said Sunday what gay marriage supporters have been waiting for President Barack Obama to say — but his office’s immediate effort...
President Barack Obama arrives for a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., Saturday, May 5, 2012. PHOTO/Steve Helber/AP President Barack Obama plunged into...
U.S. President Barack Obama The economy isn’t cooperating with President Barack Obama’s re-election schedule. For the third year in a row, an early spurt of growth...
Haiti Prime Minister.,Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti lawmakers have approved President Michel Martelly’s choice for a new prime minister, ending a two-month impasse that had hampered the...
Incumbent Prime Minister of The Bahamas., Hubert Ingraham. PHOTO/BIS/Sharon Turner (Reuters) – A struggling economy, rising crime and posturing over offshore oil exploration dominate the campaign...
U.S. President Obama (l) and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File It’s on. Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements in competitive states...
(Business Wire) – Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, has appointed Paul Altidor as the new Haitian Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Altidor formally assumed office today...
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday threatening non-military sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan if they don’t halt escalating violence on their border...
U.S. President Barack Obama addressing troops in Afghanistan 2012. PHOTO/File President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as...
President Obama steps off Air Force One at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. PHOTO/Doug Mills/The New York Times...
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his...
Citizens of the Bahamas begin voting for a new government today under the “Advance Poll” system with Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham stressing that it is important...
Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas. PHOTO/File The main opposition New National Party (NNP) today said it had filed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister...
President Barack Obama says the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden is a time for reflection, and he pushed back on criticism that the...
Former Jamaica Prime Minister., P.J. Patterson. PHOTO/File Former Jamaica Prime Minister., P.J. Patterson is now seeking legal advice about a libellous e-mail alleged to have been...
U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Former President Bill Clinton. PHOTO/UPI/Kristoffer Tripplaar Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama...
Haiti President.,Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s President Michel Martelly said Wednesday that he’s feeling better as he recovers in Miami from a blood clot in his lung....
African American voters. PHOTO/File The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President and CEO Ben Jealous was joined by radio host Tom Joyner,...
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney’s foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister.,Kamla Persad Bissessar Trinidad and Tobago’s government will be introducing legislation to abolish Privy Council appeals in all criminal matters, Prime Minister...
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love speaks at the Republican state convention, Saturday, April 21, 2012 in Sandy, Utah. PHOTO/Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP Photo Amid the...
A leading businessman from Haiti has downplayed the recent closure of the Haitian embassy in Jamaica and any adverse impact that may have on trade relations...