CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC, – St Lucia, while feeling the wrath of Tropical Storm Kirk, was hit by a strong earthquake on Friday. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. The Seismic Research Unit of the St Augustine...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General Dale Marshall says there will be no national shutdown of the country due to the passage of Tropical Storm Kirk. In an address Thursday morning, Marshall said the...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 2:57 PM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union in Trinidad and Tobago says it supports an initiative to dismiss more than 600 workers in a bid to save the financially-troubled Port of Port of Spain. SWWTU...
Published:Wednesday | September 26, 2018 | 2:39 PM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Tropical storm Kirk intensified on Wednesday as it makes its way towards the eastern Caribbean with several countries being put on a tropical storm warning. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said that...
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The leader of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) Dr Godwin Friday says he is concerned at the “haste” with which the St Vincent and the Grenadines Government is moving to pass...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States (US) Coast Guard says crew members from the cutter Joseph Tezanos have transferred custody of three smugglers and about US$3.3 million of cocaine to US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – A mock election will be held in the British Virgin Islands this week in an effort to demonstrate the vote-tallying technology that the government wants to use in upcoming general elections. The Office of...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has appointed international pop icon Robyn Rihanna Fenty as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary with specific responsibility for promoting education, tourism, and...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Opposition Leader Jeanne Atherden has lost a vote of no confidence and is expected to be replaced by businessman Craig Cannonier, who resigned as premier four years after becoming embroiled in a controversy involving...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States has named two Trinidad and Tobago nationals as financiers of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “While coalition efforts have led to the collapse of ISIS’s self-declared caliphate,...
WASHINGTON, CMC – A United States federal jury has convicted a Providence, Rhode Island woman for her participation in a Jamaican lottery fraud scheme. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that Melinda Bulgin, 28, was convicted on conspiracy...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica is observing the first anniversary of the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria last September that killed at least 30 people with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit praising God and insisting that “...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Monday announced that it is phasing out the machine-readable passport in favour of the electronic passport, following a recommendation by the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) as the new...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – One year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Lesser Antilles leaving behind a trail of death and destruction the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it has helped to mobilise US$...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Police are expressing concern at the increasing number of juvenile rape cases since the start of the year. The spokesperson for the National Police of Haiti Wesler Appolon has described as a real plague the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - The Barbados government says it is considering merging the state-owned Barbados Agricultural Management Company Limited (BAMC) with the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL), as it seeks to fully privatise the sugar cane...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber says measures must be taken to ensure that the police are not given a “black eye” by rogue cops after two police officers, including a senior officer, appeared in court...
NEW YORK, CMC – A St Vincent and the Grenadines naturalised citizen Adrian Baron has become the first person to be convicted for failing to comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) of the United States. Baron is a...
THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – The Anguilla branch of CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank will be closed early in the new year. This was announced on Wednesday by Donna Wellington, Managing Director of Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean...
Published:Thursday | September 13, 2018 | 10:44 AM
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A State of Emergency has been declared in Dominica as the island braces for the effects of Tropical Storm Issac today. Yesterday, National Security Minister Rayburn Blackmoore announced that the state of emergency...
Published:Thursday | September 13, 2018 | 10:36 AM
NEW YORK, CMC – A judge in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced to prison three gang members in connection with the shooting death of the Jamaican legal aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during the 2015 Caribbean J’Ouvert...
Published:Thursday | September 13, 2018 | 10:32 AM
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The police have announced plans to probe circumstances that may have led to the sudden death of a 51-year-old customs officer earlier this week. The police report that Lloyd “Silah”...
Published:Wednesday | September 12, 2018 | 3:44 PM
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Wednesday hinted at the possibility of enacting legislation before year-end that would give authorities the right to compel the private sector to send home workers in the event of an approaching...
Published:Wednesday | September 12, 2018 | 3:34 PM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Wednesday condemned the actions “of a few “rogue” Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) officers after a fourth person surrendered to police...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Tuesday urged citizens to be “fully prepared’” as Dominica was placed on a hurricane watch despite Hurricane Isaac being downgraded to a strong tropical storm. Skerrit...
