PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), President David Granger says the regional integration grouping welcomes the transfer of power in Haiti after the French-speaking CARICOM country inaugurated its 58th head...
The Guyanese is warning people they could face criminal charges if they continue to circulate inappropriate video content involving children on social media platforms. Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally, says the video images of the children...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda is considering establishing a law school and will conduct a feasibility study towards that end, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Steadroy Benjamin has said. He said the issue was...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyana is to spend an estimated GUY$114 million (One Guyana dollar =US$0.004 cents) on installing Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) at public buildings including government ministries in the first quarter of this year...
Workers in Trinidad's oil industry yesterday agreed to a five per cent wage increase at the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, averting a 90 day strike in the energy sector. Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste Primus said she was happy that the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): An electoral tribunal in Haiti has rejected claims that massive voter fraud marred the November presidential election victory of first-time candidate Jovenel Moise, officials said Tuesday. The judges found some...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyana assumes the chairmanship of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping with President David Granger saying that 2017 holds great promise for the Caribbean countries to advance” our integration...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, prompting officials to order an evacuation of coastal areas to guard against a possible tsunami.. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 7.6 and...
WASHINGTON (CMC): From the Zika epidemic and the birth of thousands of babies with congenital malformations, through the declaration of measles as eliminated from the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says 2016 is a year of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyanese authorities have refused to allow 1,700 cases of Dost sardines into the country from China. The Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) said the decision was taken after it was discovered that...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): A new United Nations report says a significant number of children in the Caribbean and Central America are victims of human trafficking. The report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released on...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's president said Sunday that the sudden decision to scrap the country's most-used currency bill was an economic triumph over the country's enemies even as the government sent troops and police...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar was ejected from the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on Friday after she failed to heed a ruling by the Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George on a motion of a matter of national...
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) -- Fidel Castro's ashes were interred in a private ceremony Sunday morning, ending nine days of mourning for the man who ruled Cuba for nearly half a century. The military caravan bearing his remains in a flag-draped cedar...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Police have begun an investigation after a graphic threat against the life of Premier Michael Dunkley was being circulated on a social networking service, with the poster requesting that he be contacted if willing...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologised Thursday for the UN not doing enough to contain the spread of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, but he stopped short of apologising for bringing the disease to the Caribbean nation. Ban made...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Britain’s Prince Harry has started a 15-day visit to the Caribbean that will include stops in Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, and Guyana. The...
The Antiguan government is reporting a decrease in applications for the Citizenship by Investment Programme. The Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Lennox Weston, says it can be attributed to a decrease in demand for the programme, but...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Haiti Wednesday launched a vaccination campaign against cholera in the areas of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country hard hit by Hurricane Matthew last month resulting in the loss of lives of...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): The Grenada government said Tuesday that the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is now under control but warned of the possibility of a second outbreak. “From all the reports I have received, the hand foot...
An American oil giant, ExxonMobil has discovered more oil offshore Guyana as it continues its exploration. ExxonMobil has not given a resource estimate for the amount of gas in the find but says the reservoir has a very healthy gas-to-oil ratio...
ARCAHAIE, Haiti (AP) -- Police officers were searching cars and boats for escaped prisoners on Sunday after recapturing at least a dozen of the 172 inmates who overpowered guards and escaped from a lockup in central Haiti, the prison's director...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP): Hurricane Nicole snapped trees, flooded homes and peeled off some roofs as it pummeled the British territory of Bermuda on Thursday as an extremely dangerous Category 3 storm. The storm was located about 10 miles (20...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP): Doors and windows began to rattle across Bermuda early Thursday as Hurricane Nicole approached the British territory as an extremely dangerous Category 3 hurricane. The storm was located about 55 miles (85 kilometers) south-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Regional government ministers with responsibility for water meet in Trinidad later this month to discuss the social, economic and environmental impact of water scarcity and overall management of water in the Caribbean...
