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Jamaica's environment minister, Matthew Samuda, looks like a lock to run the UN Environment Assembly after getting backed by Caribbean and American countries. He's the only person up for the gig heading into the vote, and regional delegates seem pretty locked in on supporting him for the top...

Antigua and Barbuda's education minister, Daryll Matthew, just dropped news that the government will cover all CXC exam costs and send refunds to families who already shelled out cash. The country picks up around EC$1.25 million each year for these testing fees, and Matthew says schools will get...

Guyana's health minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, says the country plans to buy lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention drug that works for six months. The medication currently costs around $25,000 in the US, but authorities want to wait until the patent expires in a year or two to get cheaper...

Jamaica National Group said 40 percent of cash from their ISupportJamaica Fund is getting funneled into early childhood centers hit by Hurricane Melissa, and JN Foundation Chairman Parris Lyew-Ayee told a regional education summit that fixing preschools counts as the most efficient way to boost...

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley landed at number 99 on the Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list for the third year running, and the ranking puts her next to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plus European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at the top spots...

Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett told a Caribbean Tourism Organization fundraiser that mega-storms just became the new normal after Hurricane Melissa racked up losses somewhere between 28 and 32 percent of his country's GDP, with some estimates pushing past ten billion bucks in damage...

Janelle Hopkin from Spice Island Beach Resort received the Caribbean Media Exchange Leadership Award at a ceremony in Coral Gables, and she credited her late father, Sir Royston Hopkin, for building the luxury property into what it is today. The third-generation hotelier said her belief in...

Jamaica's House of Representatives passed changes letting way more people wipe old convictions off their records, and Justice Minister Delroy Chuck said most offenders only mess up once before going straight. The bill bumps eligibility from five-year sentences up to ten-year stretches while...

American authorities grabbed a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela that was pretending to be registered under the Guyanese flag even though it never actually signed up with that country. Guyana Maritime Administration Department said the Motor Tanker SKIPPER got intercepted while falsely flying...

Jamaica still has 32 deaths under investigation from Hurricane Melissa, while officials confirmed the body count hit 45 people, and another 13 people remain missing. ODPEM Director General Alvin Gayle told reporters at Jamaica House that leptospirosis cases spiked to 84 suspected infections plus...

Jamaica shut down government holiday parties after Hurricane Melissa wrecked the country, and Education Minister Dana Morris Dixon said offices can do small recognition stuff internally, but renting outside spaces is off the table. She wants agencies to reach out to workers living in destroyed...

Magistrate Judy Latchman shot down a defense move to send constitutional questions about the Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar Mohamed extradition case up to the High Court, and the hearing rolls forward with the US expected to bring evidence against the We Invest in Nationhood guys on 11 counts...

Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis dropped new legislation in Parliament that cranks up penalties for anyone running migrant-smuggling operations through the islands, and the bill lets prosecutors go after people who plan routes, finance trips, or hide migrants, whether the whole thing happens...

Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett got picked to run a new Caribbean Tourism Organization committee that wants to keep more vacation cash circulating inside the region instead of leaking out to foreign companies. The group pulls in reps from Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Saint...

Caribbean Development Bank president Daniel Best put out a statement saying his organization stays locked into fighting corruption because dirty money keeps sabotaging development across the region. He pointed to UN numbers showing bribes eat up a trillion bucks every year, while another 2.6...

A matatu flipped over at the Museum Hill roundabout, and people driving by, plus random pedestrians, jumped in to help right after it happened. Traffic cops showed up to lock down the area and keep cars moving, but nobody confirmed how badly the passengers got hurt or what made the vehicle roll...

Laurent Saint-Cyr showed up at the airport to meet 230 Kenyan cops who just flew in to help deal with the gang situation, and Kenya sent Deputy National Security Advisor Joseph Boinett, plus some other officials, to drop them off. The crew from Kenya is replacing 100 officers heading home after...

Haiti just dropped its election schedule after years of putting it off, and the country wants to run general elections next summer, even though gangs basically run half the capital. Jacques Desrosiers from the Provisional Electoral Council said voting happens in two rounds on specific dates next...

A former prison health officer from Uganda is claiming the system screwed him over after he wouldn't fake receipts for COVID money he never got. James Turyatunga says his bosses at Kitalya Prison wanted him to sign documents confirming payments that didn't actually reach him and other medical...

Wamala Region cops are looking into what appears to be a homicide after Henry Lubwama Kisitu turned up dead in Bukyanga Cell over in Kiboga district. Kisitu lived in Kyengera town council before he went missing for a few days, and Robert Kawuki found the body while trying to ditch his dead dog...