WASHINGTON (CMC): Seven Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are to benefit from a new multi-country strategy for technical cooperation in health through 2024. The strategy was signed between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and...
CARDIFF (CMC): A 50-year-old Welsh accountant has dramatically changed his plea and admitted laundering almost US$2.5 million stolen from the Bermuda government while he worked on the island. Jeffrey Bevan, from the town of Cwmbran, admitted...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Monday appealed for support from law abiding citizens as the twin island republic recorded the highest number of murders in the month of January for any one year. At least 59...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Security will be heightened at the Guyana/Venezuela border in the wake of the discovery of an illegal road that links both countries. Minister of State Joe Harmon says there has been growing concern from Guyanese in...
Authorities have ended their search for the parts of a plane that crashed in The Bahamas last week and the bodies of the victims. A small amount of debris was recovered from the crash that occurred last Wednesday morning, shortly after the Piper...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, Monday urged Caribbean countries to seriously tackle the issue of money laundering in the region. Addressing the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)...
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda has invited the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to invest more with the Government. Browne made the call while speaking during recent...
WASHINGTON (CMC): United States Department of Defense officials say Russia has dispatched an intelligence gathering ship to the Caribbean Sea that is being closely monitored by the Pentagon. The spy ship, Viktor Leonov was spotted leaving Port-of-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The Electoral College Friday elected the first woman as the sixth Head of State of Trinidad and Tobago with both Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar saying she was the best...
At least six people, including a child, were killed when a Piper Aztec plane crashed near Andros Island yesterday. Aviation officials confirmed the discovery of one body floating in waters just east of North Andros. Transport and Aviation Minister...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The 15 member regional grouping, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it is deeply disturbed by reports about the use of derogatory and repulsive language by the President of the United States in respect to the French...
NEW YORK (CMC): Caribbean legislators on Friday joined the avalanche of deep outrage over United States President Donald J. Trump’s reported racist remarks about nationals from Haiti, Africa and El Salvador. “Donald Trump’s...
Two men who worked at Antigua and Barbuda’s National Office of Disaster Services have been charged after allegedly stealing items intended for hurricane-affected residents of the twin-island nation. Dion Browne, a relief manager, and Everton...
CMC – Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has ordered a temporary shutdown of air and maritime traffic with three Caribbean neighbours, accusing smugglers there of seeking to plunder his South American country. In a televised...
NEW YORK (CMC): Caribbean nations ravaged by recent hurricanes are selling citizenship at dramatically discounted prices in an effort to raise emergency funds, sparking concerns that the programmes may be vulnerable to abuse, according to...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): At least 28 people including 15 Haitians were killed after consuming home-made alcohol containing methanol, health authorities have confirmed. Minister of Public Health, Marie Greta Roy Clement, confirmed the deaths...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): The head of the Government’s Negotiating Team (GNT), Beryl Isaac, says prison and gazetted police officers have agreed to a accept the one-off “sacrifice” payment offered by the Grenada...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM
Barbados-born international singer, Rihanna, has called for an end to gun violence in her country after her 21-year-old cousin was shot and killed last night. The 29-year-old singer ended a tribute to her cousin on Instagram by calling for an end...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP): Authorities in the Dominican Republic say at least a dozen people have died and 21 more have been hospitalised after drinking homemade liquor containing methanol. Officials say the first deaths occurred last...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): Grenada has put into effect the law requiring all promoters, including churches and schools that engage in “games of chance” to obtain a license. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Franklyn Redhead,...
A taxi driver is due to appear in court later this week after the Guyana police said they found more than 145 pounds of cocaine in a cooking gas cylinder on Sunday. The authorities said that they found the drugs after carrying out a search of the...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved over US$5 million in funding to support the Anguilla Electricity Company Limited with the complete restoration of its transmission and distribution system which was damaged during the passage of...
Guyana’s President David Granger has pardoned five women who have completed part of their prison sentence for non-violent offenses. The Ministry of Public Security says the prisoners have each served a portion of their respective sentences...
ATLANTA (AP): When Adele MacLean joined others in an Atlanta park to feed the hungry the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she left with a citation and a summons to appear in court. The case was dropped when she showed up in court earlier this month, but...
LONDON, CMC – A consultant with the London-based Caribbean Council says the Trump administration’s new United States security policy raises difficult questions for the Caribbean. Writing under the syndicated column, “The View from...
