U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says he will request that the United Nations assumes funding for the structural and logistical expenses of a multinational force in Haiti that is struggling to fight violent gangs.

The eastern Caribbean island of Barbados is holding a snap general election after cutting ties with Queen Elizabeth II late last year and appointing its first ever president to lead the world’s newest republic.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley didn’t phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.

Only five women addressed the United Nations General Assembly in the first half of its session this year.

Two Americans, Oscar Suarez and Magdalena Devil, traveling in Barbados are missing after they took a rented Jet Ski out to sea and did not return, according to the country's national police. HOLETOWN, Barbados - The search for two Americans who went missing last week after renting a Jet Ski in Barbados was called off by the country's coast guard on Sunday, Roy Morris, press secretary to Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, told CNN. The United States, which was helping with the search, withdrew its assisting aircraft on Saturday, Morris also said. Oscar Suarez, 32 and Magdalena Devil, 25, rented the Jet Ski from a local company at Holetown Beach in Barbados on June 24. The Police Marine Unit and Barbados Coast Guard both searched the waters but did not find the couple or the Jet Ski, police said.

Two Americans traveling in Barbados are missing after they took a rented personal watercraft out to sea and did not return Monday, according to the country's national police. (CNN) - Desperate relatives of Americans who went missing in Barbados after taking a rented personal watercraft out to sea have been handing out flyers on a beach on the west coast of the eastern Caribbean island. The Royal Barbados Police Force said Thursday that authorities had searched without success as far as the north and south ends of the island. The couple rented the Jet Ski from a company at Holetown Beach in Barbados at 2:34 p.m. Monday, police said. Cruz traveled to Barbados with her mother, Ninfa Urruita, this week looking for answers.