ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca—Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit yes­ter­day thanked the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment for sus­pend­ing a procla­ma­tion that would have pre­vent­ed Do­mini­cans from en­ter­ing the North Amer­i­can coun­try from Jan­u­ary 1 next year.

Con­vict­ed mur­der­er Chuck At­tin will have to serve al­most 23 more years in prison be­fore he can be re­leased.

A man from Fyz­abad, who dis­guised him­self in a niqab – a face cov­er­ing worn by some Mus­lim women – to kill the moth­er of his young child in 2020, has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison.

A “peace­mak­er” who in­ter­vened in a fight be­tween two women was stabbed in the back and lat­er died in the hos­pi­tal of his in­juries. He was iden­ti­fied as couri­er Stephan Roberts, of Agua San­ta Av­enue in Diego Mar­tin.

PH dri­ver Ishiya­ho Es­h­ban Williams, 34, of Bagatelle Road, San Juan, was shot mul­ti­ple times by gun­men who pur­sued his car and forced him to ex­it the ve­hi­cle in a bid to es­cape.

A San Juan man was killed by of­fi­cers dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion at Laven­tille Road, San Juan, around 4.50 am yes­ter­day.

An Ari­ma man was duped out of over $25,000 in cash by a man who pre­tend­ed to be em­ployed at a pop­u­lar gro­cery and promised him an em­ploy­ee dis­count to se­cure a “good deal” on al­co­hol for the hol­i­days.

Armed rob­bers beat and tied up a sales clerk dur­ing a rob­bery at a Princes Town jew­ellery shop yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Gas­ton Browne said yes­ter­day that na­tion­als who al­ready hold Unit­ed States visas will con­tin­ue to have ac­cess to the U.S. and will not face visa re­vo­ca­tion, even as new visa arrange­ments are be­ing con­sid­ered for the re­gion.

Forty-two can­di­dates will con­test the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions sched­uled for Mon­day 12 Jan­u­ary 2026.

More than 60 se­nior lead­ers from across the Caribbean di­as­po­ra and the Unit­ed States gath­ered last week­end for a closed-door pre­view of WHIS­TLE, a new lead­er­ship plat­form po­si­tion­ing it­self as a uni­fy­ing force for Caribbean in­flu­ence, eco­nom­ic pow­er and long-term lega­cy.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed and two firearms seized, dur­ing three sep­a­rate an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.