PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — American nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were freed Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they were kidnapped in Haiti's capital, according to aid organisation El Roi Haiti. The Christian group founded by...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced increased tuition fees for students attending two of its campuses for the upcoming academic year which starts in September. A memorandum to students of the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A lawyer representing a 15-year-old student charged with several counts of murder arising from the deadly May 22 fire that killed 19 students at a dormitory at the Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana is...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Several thousand people — their faces covered to conceal their identities — marched through Haiti's capital on Monday demanding protection from violent gangs who are pillaging neighbourhoods in the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced a 20-year-old man to a total of 55 years in prison after he was found guilty of robbing a man and a woman in Kingstown, then abducting and raping the woman, and forcing her to run...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says Ramey Sector Border Patrol agents in Puerto Rico have apprehended 16 undocumented Caribbean migrants who disembarked from a makeshift wooden...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The British Virgin Islands has announced that plans are being made to lift the visa requirement that is currently in place for citizens of Guyana. This is according to Deputy Premier and Minister for...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (AP) — Haitians are expressing scepticism over an offer by Kenya to lead an international police force aimed at combatting the gang violence that has wracked the Caribbean nation. They say the sexual abuse and a...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Friday said it expects several countries within the Eastern Caribbean to send translators to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led United Nations-backed multinational force, as efforts continue to end the...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A judge in the Bahamas has dismissed a motion filed by a Rastafarian man who challenged the constitutionality of the Dangerous Drugs Act in prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana, even for religious purposes....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) Wednesday said that the temperatures of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans should remain well above average during the next three months. In its latest...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) on Tuesday said that at least 14 passenger boats had been destroyed and several others damaged after a fire swept through the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling on the West Coast Demerara. “...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Communication Workers' Union in Trinidad Friday welcomed the decision by the Industrial Court ordering two companies to pay the salaries of six workers dismissed for refusing to be vaccinated against...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) is urging Caribbean countries to be part of a global ban on the use of mobile phones in schools. A new UN report is raising concerns...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC -The Bahamian government is paying an estimated US$120 million annually in overpayments to public servants due to errors in the payroll accounts system, Financial Secretary Simon Wilson has said. Wilson said that some employees...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – More than 10 years after the disgraced international football executive, Austin Jack Warner, was booted out of the coalition People's Partnership government and told to go “clear” his name of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Dr Irfaan Ali says at least five European Union (EU) countries have agreed to sponsor Guyana's bid for Schengen visa-free travel. Ali made the disclosure while interacting with the media on...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government Thursday night successfully tabled legislation removing the 20 per cent tax on cell phones. Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, said the Confirmation of the Customs (Amendment of First Schedule)...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Police in St Vincent have cancelled all vacation and no-pay leave for officers until further notice as lawmen move to prevent possible reprisals following the murders of five people in the capital, Kingstown...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC- Local authorities have launched an investigation following reports that Guyana's gold is being smuggled into neighbouring Brazil. This was revealed by Vice President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday, as he...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The three-member CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Haiti that travelled to the French-speaking country last week is recommending that talks between the various groups should continue in order to help...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), Audrey Marks, has assumed the chair of the OAS Permanent Council until September 30 this year. “I look forward to a very productive...
BRUSSELS, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Monday said he expects “mature” discussions to take place during the two day European Union and the Community of Latin American and the...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The UN Security Council has called on secretary-general Antonio Guterres to come up with options to help combat Haiti's armed gangs, including a possible UN peacekeeping force and a non-UN multinational...
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says its crews have repatriated four people to Cuba and transferred 18 people to the Bahamas following three separate migrant vessel interdictions in the past week that originated from either Cuba or...
