PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) — Vigilante killings are surging in Haiti's capital and surrounding areas, where an additional five men were slain and set on fire Tuesday by a crowd that left one of the bodies near a police station in an upscale...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders Tuesday said they remained “deeply concerned” at the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than a year after the Russian army initiated war in the East...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) on Tuesday said it may become difficult over the next three months to confidently forecast rainfall as the Caribbean transitions into the wet season. In...
ST JOHN'S Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne Monday warned of possible layoffs in the public service if trade unions continue to demand unrealistic higher wages for workers in Antigua and Barbuda. “We know that there will...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Domestic Workers Network (CDWN) is calling on regional countries to ratify and implement the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention that recognises and protects the rights of domestic...
VIRGINIA, CMC – The United Coast Guard has detained more than 480 illegal migrants from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic following an 88-day patrol for illegal migration and drug trafficking in the Florida Straits and the Caribbean Sea...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and the National Security Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds, Friday warned that those responsible for engaging in activities that undermine safety and security in schools would be...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two local journalists have been killed in Haiti over the past couple of weeks as rampant gang violence has gripped the capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. The Committee to Protect Journalists said in...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Guyana Mae Touissant Jnr. Thomas has confirmed that her United States visa has been revoked. Breaking her silence on the controversy surrounding the confiscation...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC -The head of the United Nations Office in Haiti, Wednesday warned the United Nations Security Council that the people in the French-speaking CARICOM country needed help now as the country slides deeper into violence....
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Police in Bermuda seized more than US$14 million in marijuana and arrested nine men, including a senior customs officer, after they intercepted two vehicles last week after they left the executive jet facility at LF...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Tuesday tabled several pieces of legislation that it said will correct a “historical and generational wrong” as it pertains to children born out of wedlock. Prime Minister Roosevelt...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's fuel shortages have increased dramatically with authorities suspending activities, including a concert by the country's national symphony, as well as rationing gasoline sales and moving some universities'...
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) Tuesday said while it is prepared to participate in the negotiations for a new government following Monday's inconclusive general election, it...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A mob in the Haitian capital beat and burned 13 suspected gang members to death with gasoline-soaked tyres Monday after pulling the men from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses said. The...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željka Cvijanović,will arrive in Cuba on Monday for an official visit that will last until Wednesday. According to the local foreign ministry, the Bosnian head of state...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Immigration officials in the United States have refused to give an explanation after a mobile phone belonging to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Guyana, Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas, who was...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Calypsonian David Rudder Friday confirmed that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease as he gets ready for a major show in Port of Spain next month to mark his 70th birthday. The Canada-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM leaders ended a two-day regional symposium on violence as a public health issue, declaring a war on guns to combat the illegal trade which they said “provides the weapons that contribute...
WASHINGTON, CMC -The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has released a report aimed at addressing the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on human rights. Titled “Pandemic and Human Rights” the IACHR...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — A 43-year-old man in Bermuda has been sent to prison for 35 years by a Supreme Court judge after being convicted of committing a series of sex acts on two young sisters. Locksley Cummings, who showed no...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean politicians, academics and other stakeholders, including police commissioners began a two-day symposium on Monday examining violence as a public health issue against the backdrop of increasing violent...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – A former premier of this British Overseas territory, McKeeva Bush, has denied two counts of indecent assault charges against two women. The veteran politician and former speaker of the House, who was granted...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of State says the Biden administration has resumed talks in Washington with Cuban officials on the implementation of the US-Cuba Migration Accords. “This bilateral discussion reflects...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Police have confirmed that a United States citizen died following a Jet Ski accident on Reduit Beach, north of Castries, on Friday. In a statement, the police said that Jazmine Chandler-Tabb of New York, was...
