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Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez with Grenadian prime Minister Dickon Mitchell in Grenada.

Grenada

Post-Maduro, Rodríguez launches first foreign trip in Grenada

By Bert Wilkinson

A view of Georgetown, Guyana.

Guyana

Venezuelan gas station bomber admits to role

By Bert Wilkinson

Dutch pulls out of joint drugs operation with US in Caribbean

By Bert Wilkinson

Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against U.S. strikes against Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse as he makes an initial appearance to face U.S. federal charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others in New York City, U.S., January 5, 2026.

Brooklyn Dems chair denounces Trump’s actions in Venezuela

By Nelson A. King

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke delivered a powerful message to inspire a MLK Day audience to live the freedom fighter's dream. The politician was one of many politicians who attended a tribute, in partnership with Sen. Kevin Parker and A Shared Dream Foundation, at Goshen Temple of SDA Church in Brooklyn.

Yvette Clarke slams Trump’s Venezuela action as dangerous and unconstitutional

By Dawn Plummer

UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by military escalation in Venezuela

By Nelson A. King

Smoke rises from explosions in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 3, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from video obtained by Reuters.

Guyana

Caribbean alarmed as US strikes Venezuela, Maduro captured

By Bert Wilkinson

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules transport planes sit parked on the tarmac at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base, amid tensions between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, January 2, 2026.

Welch alarmed by increased US military build-up in the Caribbean

By Nelson A. King

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar replies to the media after being asked about the presence of U.S. military in the southern Caribbean, at the Red House, parliamentary building, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 12, 2025.

Grenada

Top stories from the Caribbean in 2025

By Bert Wilkinson

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, addresses the general debate of the 68th session of the General Assembly in Sept. 25, 2013.

Antigua

Trinidad’s PM again makes a full-blown attack on CARICOM

By Bert Wilkinson

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves while holding the hand of his wife Cilia Flores during a ceremony to swear in new community-based organizations, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up pressure on Maduro’s government, in Caracas, Venezuela, December 1, 2025.

Trump imposes more sanctions on Maduro’s ‘insiders’ and Venezuela’s oil sector

By Nelson A. King

General John D. Caine, 22nd Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Guyana

America’s top general heads to T&T as fears of war with Venezuela loom

By Bert Wilkinson

Police arrested bombing suspect Daniel Alexander Ramirez Peodomo at a coastal village in Guyana on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.

Guyana

Suspected Venezuelan bomber could face death penalty

By Bert Wilkinson

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's 80th session on Sept. 26, 2025.

Barbados

Caribbean leaders want to mediate peace between the US and Venezuela

By Bert Wilkinson

President of the Transitional Presidential Council of the Republic of Haiti, Anthony Franck Laurent Saint-Cyr, addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 25, 2025.

Haiti

Caribbean leaders warn Haiti faces economic blow as U.S. Duty-Free deal expires

By Bert Wilkinson

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Prime Minister of Grenada The Hon. Dickon Mitchell attends the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York Times Square on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York City.

Grenada

Grenada on the radar

By Bert Wilkinson

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