Caribbean

Haitian authorities are reporting that the three-week old cholera epidemic is spreading quickly in the northwest coastal city of Gonaives.

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) says it is optimistic that its proposals for a more equitable reform of Britain's controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD), will get a fair hearing from the UK government.

The Trinidad and Tobago prime minister stayed clear of any reference to her controversial post Hurricane Tomas response when she addressed the Organisation of American States (OAS) yesterday.

The stepson of Bermuda’s main opposition Party Leader Kim Swan has been jailed for life in the United States.

CARICOM officials say they’re concerned that there have been numerous studies of the region's agriculture while action to get the industry off the ground remains lacking.

Antigua and Barbuda has knighted the outgoing CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington, for what Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has described as his sterling contribution to the regional grouping and Caribbean integration.

Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has defended his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Kamla Persad Bissessar, who has been facing severe criticism after she suggested that Port of Spain must benefit from any humanitarian efforts to Caribb

The Government of Haiti says more than 500 people have now died in the current cholera epidemic, while the number of cases has passed 7,000.

Rescue workers in Guyana are still searching for the bodies of a 20 year-old woman and 12 year-old girl after a boat with 10 people aboard capsized in the Demerara River during a Diwali Fun Day.

Hurricane Tomas, now downgraded to a tropical storm was moving away from the Turks and Caicos Islands after swamping coastal towns and killing at least seven people in Haiti.

The BBC is reporting that a Cuban passenger plane crashed in the centre of the country late yesterday, with 68 people on board.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Haiti yesterday urged hundreds of thousands of homeless quake survivors to flee tents and tarps for sturdier shelter, as Tropical Storm Tomas closed in with rains that threaten to unleash...