BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): Seismologists say a strong earthquake has struck in the ocean off the coasts of Barbados. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.4 quake was centered 81 miles (132 kilometers) northeast of Bridgetown at a shallow...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - A debate between Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley, has been postponed.In a letter dated July 3, Lorraine O’Connor, a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Dates Commission (TTDC...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be launching a new initiative to help developing countries, including those in the Caribbean, strengthen their tax systems.Analysis suggest that many lower-income...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The 53 member states of the Commonwealth have pledged to support Guyana in the ongoing maritime border dispute with Venezuela.Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma sought to assure the government of the groupings...
LOS ANGELES, CMC -– A major human rights group here says thousands of Caribbean families in the United States have been torn apart in recent years by detention and deportation for drug offenses.In it's latest report Human Rights Watch said that...
NEW YORK, CMC – As the deadline nears for the deportation of Haitian Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, a New York City legislator has created and circulated a petition calling on the Dominican Republic government to stop what he describes as “...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has dismissed allegations by her former embattled national security minister Austin Jack Warner that a quantity of marijuana had been found at her home in...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Embattled former FIFA executive and former national security minister, Jack Warner, has claimed that he was involved in a plan to bury the alleged discovery of marijuana at the home of Prime Minister Kamla Persad...
LYON, France,CMC – The international police organization (INTERPOL) says car parts, fuel, food, detergent, cigars, shampoo and steel were among fake goods worth nearly US$60 million seized in a two-week operation across the Americas and the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): General elections will be held in Trinidad and Tobago on September 7, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar announced today. She told Parliament that she will ask President Anthony Carmona to dissolve the Parliament...
Media reports are indicating that the mosquito-borne virus, Zika or ZIKV, is now in the Caribbean. A report from the El Nueve Diario in the Dominican Republic, say a case of the virus has been recorded in the country. The report states a 12-year-...
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Thousands of soldiers and federal police were deployed to guard polling stations in restive southern states as voting began Sunday for what could be Mexico's most violent elections in years, seen as a litmus test for President...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A U.S. judge has multiplied the size of Argentina's debt to holdout bondholders and the country's government says it will appeal.U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa on Friday added $5.4 billion to the total he says...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Thousands donned white and took to the streets in cities across the country Saturday in the biggest show of frustration with Venezuela's socialist administration since a wave of bloody anti-government protests a year ago....
The United States has officially removed Cuba from its list of State sponsors of terrorism. The move, which was announced by the US State Department yesterday, paves the way for the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two countries...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States Justice Department Wednesday announced that the two sons of the former vice-president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Austin Jack Warner, had pleaded guilty to fraud conspiracy, money laundering...
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says preliminary forecasts indicate that the economies of regional countries will expand by nearly two per cent in 2014, mirroring an anticipated moderate acceleration in the...
The European Union (EU) has allocated US$10 million for risk reduction activities in the Caribbean. Communities highly exposed to floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes will benefit from disaster preparedness projects funded by the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley plans to proceed with a lawsuit against Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar following her failure to respond to a pre-action protocol letter requesting an apology for statements...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago says the proposed Cyber Crime Bill (2014) contains provisions that infringe on journalists’ freedom to gather and report information and urged the public to take note of the...
NASSAU, Bahamas, May 17, CMC – Police said they had recovered an AK-47 rifle as well as a Glock pistol following a shootout with four men that left one of them dead on Saturday.A police statement said that two of the suspects had been held and the...
Despite an announcement by the Guyana Elections Commission that the Opposition coalition has won Monday’s general and regional elections, the People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP-C) is not conceding defeat. A member of the party’...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling for more nurses in the Caribbean and the Americas to be trained to provide skilled care. It is also urging that steps be taken to address what it describes as inequities in nurse distribution...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The main opposition coalition alliance today claimed victory in the general election even though the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is yet to make an official statement on the results regarding yesterday's poll....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyana’s two main political parties today claimed victory as the country awaits the results of yesterday's general and regional elections. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is due to announce the first set...
