WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling on countries of the Americas, including those in the Caribbean, to strengthen measures to diagnose and manage chikungunya due to an increase in cases in some areas. It...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Canada will send navy vessels to Haiti for intelligence-gathering as part of efforts to quell worsening gang violence in the Caribbean nation, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. Trudeau...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has been removed from the European Union's (EU) state-of-play document (Annex II), which means the island has been deemed compliant with tax requirements. Minister of Energy and Business, Senator Lisa...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders began their 44th regular summit in Nassau on Wednesday night overshadowed by the continued deterioration of the situation in the French-speaking member country of Haiti,...
Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2023 | 10:42 AM
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) reopened on Wednesday after the authorities said a faulty runway edge lights circuit had resulted in the closure of the main runway on Tuesday evening. “We...
Miami (AP) — United States authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that allegedly hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission,...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders during their 44th summit that gets underway in the Bahamas on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell has said. Mitchell...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Gunmen on Sunday seized three worshippers as they left a church whose pastor, Deacon Sylner Lafaille, was shot and killed in September 2021, during a kidnapping attempt. The authorities said the three parishioners...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC- An opposition political activist and radio personality, Colin Graham, was rushed to hospital on Monday after he fell ill and collapsed while conducting his radio programme. Graham was hosting the opposition New...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Prominent St Lucian journalist, Guy Ellis, was pronounced dead at hospital on Sunday night after collapsing at his home from an apparent heart attack, his relatives have confirmed. He was 78 years old. His...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nation's human rights chief on Friday urged the international community to consider deploying a specialised armed force to Haiti, warning that violent gangs are creating a “living nightmare...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Miss Universe Cayman Islands has been found guilty of damaging two cars and assaulting three people, including a police officer. Tiffany Conolly had pleaded self-defence in the October 2019 incident, in...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says acts of armed violence targeting schools in Haiti have spiked nine-fold in one year amid rising insecurity and widespread unrest. “Violence continues to take a...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke on Wednesday announced her appointment to again serve on the United States House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee and House Committee on...
HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis hopes Cuban authorities will release and grant amnesty to people arrested and sentenced after the historic protests that took place in 2021, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, who travelled to the island as the pontiff'...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) on Wednesday said as the region moves into the heart of its dry season, rainfall will continue to decrease. “With the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 rattled several parts of Trinidad on Wednesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's prime minister on Monday formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions....
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haitian authorities are offering a 10 million Gourdes or US$60,000 for information leading to the capture of Vitel 'Homme' Innocent, the leader of the Kraze Baryè gang blamed for a...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on Friday unanimously approved the nomination of Deputy Police Commissioner, Erla Harewood-Christopher, to become Trinidad and Tobago's first female police...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Guyanese court handed down death sentences for two men found guilty of high seas piracy attacks that killed seven fishermen off the nation's coast in 2018, and authorities said they have broken the back of a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of Haiti's biggest textile factories announced Thursday that it is closing an assembly plant and laying off 3,500 workers in yet another blow to the country's crumbling economy. S&H Global, whose...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck south of the Dominican Republic early Wednesday morning, jolting people from their beds. The quake occurred in waters southwest of the capital of Santo Domingo at a depth of 28...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ordered the Belize-based Caye International Bank Limited to repay more than US$170,000 to the Panama-based Rosemore International Corporation after dismissing...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Four key suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were transferred to the United States for prosecution as the case stagnates in Haiti amid death threats that have spooked local judges, US...
