PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's two most prominent health care organizations are preparing a new assault on the country's deadly cholera epidemic: the dispatch of hundreds of workers to remote villages and gritty alleys in the capital to administer a
The Grenada Ports Authority has sought a new deadline to pay outstanding wages to workers who went on strike last week over the authority’s failure to meet its original commitment.
A human rights group says it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad Bissessar says the government will be reviewing the state of emergency that has been in place in the country since August 21.
The trade unions representing regional carrier LIAT’s workers have turned down the airline’s invitation for talks today to discuss possible job cuts, as the carrier moves to trim its workforce to 800 employees by year-end.
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC):The main opposition St Lucia Labour Party yesterday blasted Prime Minister Stephenson King for his promise to probe leaks by civil servants, based on a statement by the opposition leader...
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC):Jamaica is the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country named in The Global Burden of Armed Violence report that covers violent deaths across both conflict and non-conflict environments."The Global Burden of Armed Violence...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP):Guyana's child protection agency is pursuing custody of two boys whose parents allegedly burned their genitals and buttocks, causing disfigurement.Agency director Ann Greene yesterday described the child abuse as the "most...
Operations at Grenada’s three ports were disrupted earlier today, after workers went on strike because the Port Authority missed Monday’s deadline to pay EC$379,000 in an arbitration settlement.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has blasted opposition legislators accusing them of hindering the work of Parliament and collecting salaries they have not worked for.
ROSEAU (CMC):The Dominica parliament has approved legislation strengthening the "investigative and prosecutorial arm of the state" in the fight against money laundering and other financial crimes.
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Trinidad National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy says people who are inside their "compound" are not breaking the five-hour curfew imposed as part of the state of emergency (SOE) that has been in effect in Trinidad and Tobago...
MIAMI (AP):The former president of a Miami telecommunications company has been sentenced to a record 15-year prison term in a Haitian bribery case.Prosecutors say the sentence imposed yesterday on 52-year-old Joel Esquenazi was the longest ever under...
BASSETERRE (CMC):Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Dr Denzil Douglas, says new Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness takes over the leadership of his country "in an era characterised by unprecedented...
PHILIPSBURG (CMC):Robert Reid, the Jamaican man who was arrested for the gruesome murder of his 13-year-old daughter, Tiffany, last month, has died....
