PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Police used teargas to disperse hundreds of people demonstrating against the measures contained in the 2018 budget presented to Parliament by President Jovenel Moise last month. The Parliament has approved the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) says the local economy remains growth-challenged at present. The CBTT's forecast comes even as it acknowledged that early signs of improvement have appeared in...
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, today announced limited operations to several hurricane-battered regional countries, including Dominica and the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The airline said it would...
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Police were searching for a man who allegedly raped a six-year-old girl resulting in her undergoing emergency surgery yesterday. Media reports state that the child had been found by relatives yesterday morning...
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): Prime Minister Roosvelt Skerrit Friday dismissed as “nonsense” suggestions that food supplies were being used for partisan politics and urged those behind these allegations to cease saying it, as it was hurting...
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): President Charles Savarin has called on all groups in the country to condemn the looting of several businesses, including the water and sewerage company as Dominica recovers from the ravages of Hurricane Maria blamed for the...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Declaring that he has come “straight from the front line of the war on climate change,” Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit yesterday called for urgent action in addressing the issue, as his country...
GEORETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Two men have been held by the police as investigations continue into the rape and murder of a teenager. This was confirmed by the Guyana Police Force yesterday. The police report that the body of 31-year-old...
Three people were killed yesterday in Haiti as heavy rains associated with the powerful Hurricane Maria lashed sections of the country. The police report that a 45-year-old man drowned as he attempted to cross the Grand Ravine river. They say...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM
GEOGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The British Government is working with Guyana in an effort to get supplies to countries in the region that have been devastated by hurricanes. On Thursday, Minister of State Joe Harmon said the British Government through...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas government Monday distanced itself from a so-called “Cash Grant Programme” that is aimed at helping people improve their standard of living. In a brief statement, the government said it is “aware...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A Hurricane Watch is now in effect for several islands in the Eastern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Maria formed in the western Atlantic Ocean yesterday. The Miami based National Hurricane Centre says Maria is...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): The Alba PetroCaribe Belize Energy Limited (APBEL) says it has suspended the long standing agreement with the Venezuelan state oiled company Trafigura/Puma and Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) under the PetroCaribe...
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Island (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have begun to repatriate their nationals who have chosen to leave the hurricane battered British Virgin Islands (BVI). Lieutenant Colonel Kester D. Weekes of the...
More than 100 high-risk prisoners escaped in the British Virgin Islands during Hurricane Irma, a British junior minister said on Tuesday, as he raised the death toll in British territories to nine. Junior foreign minister Alan Duncan told...
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (CMC): Governor of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), August 'Gus' Jaspert, has extended the curfew imposed on the territory since last Tuesday’s passage of Hurricane Irma, which devastated the British...
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has taken no decision “at this time’ regarding the opening of schools on Barbuda that took the full brunt of a dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma last...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): Dutch officials: Irma damaged or destroyed 70 percent of St. Maarten homes, leaving island vulnerable to Jose's approach. More to come ...
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that four people were confirmed dead in St Martin, lowering a previous toll of eight deaths given by local rescue officials. Philippe said around 50 people were injured, including two seriously, on St...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The tourist board for the Caribbean island of Anguilla says the major resorts on the island survived a hit from Hurricane Irma but many private homes have been damaged. It also says that the airport did not sustain any...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Nearly every building on the island of Barbuda was damaged when the eye of Hurricane Irma passed almost directly overhead early Wednesday and about 60 per cent of the island's roughly 1,400 people were left homeless...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Hurricane Irma, the potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane was moving away from Antigua on Wednesday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage on the Caribbean island. Prime Minister Gaston Browne in a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): A powerful Category 4 hurricane is bearing down on the Leeward Islands on Tuesday with Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts-Nevis, Anguilla and Montserrat expected to be severely impacted within the next 24 hours. The...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Hurricane Irma, with winds of 120 miles per hour (mph) was churning its way towards the Leeward Islands on Tuesday with weather officials predicting that the Category 3 storm would move near or over portions of the...
