ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Opposition legislator, Kelvin 'Shugy' Simon, Wednesday said he had submitted his letter of resignation to the Speaker of Parliament and will contest a by-election in a bid to thwart efforts by the...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 rocked parts of Haiti early on Tuesday morning causing panic and damage to some buildings near Abricot in the Department of Grand'Anse. The Haitian Civil Protection...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Bahamian officials said they had detained 22 foreigners, including two children, on Sunday after intercepting a 32-foot vessel carrying a United States flag in Bahamian waters. “We are going to remain firm. We are...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Ministry of National Security is offering a reward of TT$75,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of persons responsible for the disappearance of a Galil assault rifle from the Trinidad...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 15 people have died and another eight are missing after heavy rains unleased widespread flooding and several landslides across Haiti over the weekend, authorities said Sunday. Nearly 13,400 people were...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Old cars, used tyres, and barbed wire block off the biggest neighbourhood in the capital of Haiti. Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials...
NEW YORK, CMC - Guyana is seeking election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the 2024-2025 term with Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Hugh Todd, saying that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One person died and 14 others were rescued after an overloaded boat travelling without authorisation capsized near Haiti's southern coast, authorities said Saturday. Among the survivors is a person who was...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Friday sanctioned former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe for his alleged involvement in “significant corruption.” “This action renders Lamothe generally ineligible for...
MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Rodolphe Jaar, 51,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has blamed “a very wild card” former commissioner of police, he said had in recent times defied government policy and allowed for a certain category of...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – The police have alerted the Regional Security System (RSS) about the hunt that is under way for Dwayne McDonald, a wanted man who is a suspect in a homicide case. “He is on the high...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Another girls' dormitory was destroyed by fire on Thursday. According to police reports, shortly before 3 a.m. Thursday, the blaze destroyed another dormitory, this time in Karasabai, Rupununi, in Region...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Public Prosecution Service in Suriname is insisting that former president Desi Bouterse be imprisoned for 20 years for his involvement in the murder of 15 people in the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced two Trinidad and Tobago nationals to more than two years in jail after they were found guilty of trafficking marijuana with an estimated street value of BDS$744,600. Anton James and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The death toll from last week's fire at the dormitory of a secondary school in Guyana climbed to 20 on Tuesday after a 13-year-old school girl died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Doctors...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A local human rights groups says violence by armed gangs in the French-speaking CARICOM country has declined significantly following the emergence of a vigilante group, known as Bwa Kale, in April. The Centre...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Haiti is among 18 “hotspot” countries named by two United Nations organisations where hunger is set to worsen as fighting is putting people at risk of starvation. In a report published Monday, the Food and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Magistrate Sunil Scarce Monday adjourned to July 4 the case against a 15-year-old girl charged with 19 counts of murder arising from last week's fire at the dormitory at Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana. The...
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, CMC – Police in Guyana on Sunday said that a secondary school student who allegedly caused the death of 19 of her schoolmates by setting the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School ablaze last Monday, will be...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, will meet with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders early next month in the Bahamas. Government Press Secretary Clint Watson said that Harris, who will be the highest US...
MARIEL, Cuba (AP) — Rosa López, a 59-year-old housewife, lit a charcoal stove to boil sweet potatoes and prepare scrambled eggs for her grandchildren. The gas cylinders she normally uses to cook her meals have not been available for...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police in Guyana conferred Wednesday with prosecutors on what charges to bring against the main teenage suspect in this week's fire that destroyed a girl's dormitory at a school, killing 18 students and a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Acting Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken, is assuring the Guyanese public that the outcome of the investigation into Monday's fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 students will be made public, even as...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Secretary General of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Dr Carla Barnett, says the body has received with great sorrow the shocking news of the deadly fire that razed the dormitory at...
