NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – More than 157,000 passengers have visited the Bahamas since the start of the year with a record 26,410 passengers arriving during one day last week with stakeholders indicating that the figures are “strong rebound...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico announced Sunday that it plans to privatise electricity generation, a first for a United States territory facing chronic power outages as it struggles to rebuild a crumbling electric grid. The...
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says that crews patrolling the Florida Straits, and Windward and Mona Passes in the Caribbean Sea prevented hundreds of illegal Caribbean migrants from reaching the United States by sea from January...
HAVANA (AP) — Another delegation from the United States will travel to Cuba this month to discuss law enforcement issues, the State Department said Friday. The visit will mark another small step forward in improving an icy relationship...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Thursday assured that there was no need to change COVID-19 protocols, impose new restrictions, cancel carnival or close the country's borders despite an increase in...
NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday denounced plans by the Joe Biden administration in the United States to limit migrants...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chairman of the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Shawn Edward, is urging member countries that have defaulted on their financial obligations to the regional organisation to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are flocking daily to the sole immigration office in Port-au-Prince, pressing against the bright blue gate as they strain to hear whether their name is called, hoping they will soon be chosen...
MIAMI (AP) — Western Union said Wednesday it has resumed remittance services between the United States and Cuba in a limited capacity after two years of the essential economic lifeline being severed. The company stopped the money transfers in...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) Wednesday said with the “likely” exception of The Bahamas, Cayman Islands and Cuba, the next three months is forecast to feature a slower...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti awoke Tuesday stripped of its last democratically elected institution — this time, its Senate — an alarming development that solidifies what some call a de facto dictatorship nominally in charge...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados health authorities are reporting an outbreak of COVID-19 at the Geriatric Hospital, but gave no indication about the number of persons infected or who have died as a result. In a statement, the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued 19 Haitians who were left abandoned by smugglers on the uninhabited natural reserve of Monito Island, Puerto Rico. It said the rescue was part of ongoing...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former United States defence intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20 years ago has been released from a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. Ana Belen Montes, 65, was released Friday,...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Premier of the British Virgin Islands, Dr Natalio Wheatley, has dismissed rumours that his administration could be moving towards holding early general elections. General elections are...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Police Commissioner, Richard Boyce, has confirmed that the police are seeking assistance from their counterparts overseas in determining who leaked a confidential internal police report in a case involving...
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Migrants who entered the United States illegally under moonlit skies and waist-deep cold water Friday were devastated to learn they may be sent back to Mexico under expanded limits on the pursuit of asylum. About 200...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nearly 20 years after Caribbean islanders sued to hold the French government criminally responsible for the banana industry's extended use of a banned pesticide in Martinique and Guadeloupe, a panel of judges...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A police officer in the Turks & Caicos Islands was arrested and charged with harbouring undocumented migrants as authorities struggle with a recent spike in Haitians migrating to the archipelago, officials...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has become the first Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to impose new entry requirements for travellers coming from China where there has been an upsurge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. “Starting...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti was rocked by four earthquakes within a five-hour period on Wednesday, but Civil Protection Directorate (DPC) reported there was no loss of life or damage. It said that the first quake occurred at 7:31 a.m....
HAVANA (AP) — The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday, the first time it has done so since a spate of unexplained health incidents among diplomatic staff in 2017 slashed the American presence in...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC –Rescue teams have found all four passengers on board an aircraft that originated from St Kitts, but crashed 17 miles south east of the airport in Providenciales, the Royal Turks and Caicos...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of the US Virgin Islands has fired the attorney general of the American territory who pursued various cases against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including a lengthy legal fight that resulted...
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has condemned what it says is the exclusion of protections for Caribbean and other immigrants from the bipartisan US$1.7 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2023 that passed in the...
