PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Office of the Attorney General has requested a preliminary investigation into a potential corruption case against President Chandrikapersad Santokhi and two of his ministers, including the Finance...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The International Police (INTERPOL) has placed former Suriname president Desi Bouterse on its Red Notice list, nearly three months after he was sentenced to 20 years in jail for murder. The whereabouts of Bouterse...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya is halting plans to deploy at least 1,000 police officers to Haiti following the unprecedented violence that erupted in the Caribbean nation and the announcement by its Prime Minister Ariel Henry...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Legislators in the British Virgin Islands have passed a law that will give the authorities the right to impose fines on persons who refuse to share information during the collection of census...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are search for four men who reportedly abducted and raped an 11-year-old girl last weekend in Central Trinidad. The police said that while they have no information regarding the identities of the men, the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Two hotels and two homes were destroyed by fire early Sunday in the Guyanese gold mining community of Eteringbang located on the border with Venezuela. According to Demerara Waves Online News, no...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The US military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the US Embassy in Haiti and allow non-essential personnel to leave. The aircraft flew to the embassy compound, the US Southern...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cutter Joseph Napier offloaded 182 kilograms of cocaine seized in the Caribbean Sea, with an estimated street value of US$4.5 million, and transferred...
HAVANA (AP) — Recently dismissed Cuban Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández is being investigated by police and the Attorney General's Office after making “serious mistakes,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Secretary General of CARICOM, Dr Carla Barnett said Friday that even as the region celebrates the progress made by women “there are many challenges to be overcome”. In a message marking International...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti's most publicised gang leader has warned of a genocide should Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry be allowed to return to power in Haiti even as he remains stranded in Puerto Rico unable to return to the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, answering a key question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mar 5, CMC – A coalition of wanted criminal armed gangs has claimed power in Haiti, blocking Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry from returning home after he travelled to Kenya to sign an agreement allowing for a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Policymakers, stakeholders, and communities across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are being urged to take immediate action to overcome one of the region's greatest education crises in the last 100 years, to ensure...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Suriname's former police commissioner, Ruben Peiter, has been sentenced to seven years in jail after he was found guilty in a criminal case involving the discovery of a quantity of cocaine in September 2021....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities have ordered a nighttime curfew in an attempt to regain control of Haiti's streets after an explosion of violence during the weekend, including gunmen from gangs overrunning the country's two...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Senate in Antigua has approved a bill that will see a hike in fees for people wiring money out of the country. The Upper House on Friday approved a legal change to more than double the tax on money transfers...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Hundreds of prisoners escaped from Haiti's National Penitentiary after fighting broke out on Saturday. According to local reports, armed men set fire to the surroundings of the prison and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - A High Court judge in Trinidad and Tobago has ordered the state to pay TT$350,000 in compensation to a former prisoner who was discriminated against and denied treatment because of his HIV-positive status due to the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders said late Wednesday that embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to hold general elections by mid-2025 as the international community pushes to raise money for a foreign armed force...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – A senior United Nations official says humanitarians are hoping that donors will robustly support a US$674 million appeal for Haiti, where armed gangs continue to terrorise the population. “This is a call for...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 11:34 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana's Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has appealed a decision by a magistrate's court to dismiss a case against a former government minister who was charged with indecent exposure after...
KRALENDIJK, Bonaire, CMC – Government says the oil spill that has been impacting Tobago since earlier this month is now posing a “serious threat to both humans and nature” on the Dutch-speaking Caribbean island. In a...
