Photo: Dame Sandra Mason, Barbados’ first President-elect. (FP) By Sharon Austin, Gis Barbados As Barbados prepares to transition to a republic in a few weeks, Dame Sandra Mason has been announced as the island’s first President-elect. This announcement came today from Speaker of the House of Assembly, Arthur Holder, as he read the Instrument of […]
Members of Black Lives Matter protest outside Federal Building to denounce the segregationist immigration policies of the Biden administration, Tuesday, Step. 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Shutterstock) By Janet Howard, Special to CAW Children in cages. Mexicans are rapists. Haiti and Africa are “shithole” countries. The image of a mother and her two young children […]
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley meets with the Diaspora. Watch the full video below.
By Widlore Merancourt and Anthony Faiola, Washington Post PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — He crossed the Mexican border into Texas only two weeks ago, joyous at the prospect of building anew in the United States. Now part of the first wave of deportees rapidly ejected by the Biden administration amid a fresh surge at the border, Johnson […]
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez The U.S. government is increasing deportation flights to Haiti in response to the rapid arrival of thousands of Haitian migrants in a small Texas community along the border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday. Thousands of migrants, many of them from Haiti, have crossed the southern border in recent […]
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been banned from leaving the country amid an investigation into his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. A prosecutor is seeking charges against Mr Henry, who has been asked to explain his links with a key suspect in the killing, Joseph Felix Badio. Records show the […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders The question has to be asked. Are some people in Caribbean countries becoming the architects of their own and the region’s destruction? There is clearly an organized anti-vaccination campaign throughout the region. Who is behind the campaign is unclear, but what is evident is that opposition political parties and criminal elements […]
By WiredJA KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 12, 2021 – The Government’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Implementation Program has been endorsed by the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and its affiliates. JCTU executive members, led by President, Helene Davis Whyte, publicly pledged their support for the initiative during a press conference hosted by Minister of Health and […]
At the invitation of the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be fielding a CARICOM Election Observation Mission to monitor the General Elections which will be held in that country on Thursday, 16 September 2021. The six-member Mission will be headed by Mr. Ian S. Hughes, Assistant to the […]
By WiredJA News Team UNITED NATIONS, September 11, 2021 -Following the release of its findings, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization of (FAO) has urgently called for more investment to help rural Haitians go back to small-scale farming and avoid a worsening of the food crisis. Last month’s earthquake destroyed markets, roads, storage and processing […]