CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The administration of Prime Minister Phillip Pierre says the government will be disbursing over EC$20 million in back pay owed to public servants. In a statement on Saturday, the government stated that over EC$2...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organisations warned Friday could further limit free expression and snuff out protests at a time of deepening discontent on the island. The code, a modified...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – One person may have died as a result of being injected with the COVID-19 vaccine, St Vincent's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Simone Keizer-Beache told the High Court on Wednesday, on day one of the vaccine mandate...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called for countries in the region to address inequalities that prevent progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, as it marked World AIDS Day,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad's Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries Wednesday said that a barge carrying 900 barrels of diesel fuel sank while demobilising in the Gulf of Paria and that the six-member crew had been rescued...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas has recorded 120 murders so far this year, surpassing the entire 2021 figure of 119. Police said that a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s was found with gunshot wounds on Monday. The police said they...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging Dominicans to go out and cast their ballots in the December 6 general election even though the main opposition parties continue to encourage supporters to stay away....
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Heavy rains Monday forced the closure of schools and cut electricity and water supplies to parts of Trinidad and Tobago. Officials have warned that river levels are likely to continue rising. Local Government...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force says that a man who was stranded at sea for days is in serious but stable condition after being rescued while two others are missing following a boating...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Eight months after he was arrested in the United States, former Prime Minister Andrew Fahie has written a farewell letter to his former colleagues of the House of Assembly, urging them to keep fighting...
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Premier Mark Brantley says the Nevis Island Assembly (NIA) is being dissolved on Friday, paving the way for elections on the island on December 12. Three parties are expected to contest the five NIA seats including...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology (CIMH) is warning the region that recent heavy rains could continue into December and pose a risk for flooding during one of the most...
HAVANA (AP) — Dominican authorities have expelled at least 1,800 unaccompanied Haitian migrant children this year, sending them back to their crisis-stricken country, UNICEF said. The Dominican Republic denied the claim, which came Tuesday...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing number of children amid a surge in malnutrition, UNICEF announced Wednesday. The deadly combination means that about 40% of cholera cases in the...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has defended his decision to call a snap general election on December 6, two years ahead of the constitutional deadline, dismissing opposition allegations that he is moving towards...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rican attorney was found guilty of trying to smuggle cell phones and SIM cards into a federal prison where inmates pay tens of thousands of dollars for such contraband, officials said Monday. The US...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, is defending Qatar amid criticism from some western countries over its hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which opened on Sunday and will run for...
HAVANA (AP) — The Dominican Republic said it “profusely rejects” criticism of its crackdown on Haitian migrants from a growing number of countries and human rights agencies. Dominican authorities have ramped up border enforcement...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a Haiti national is among 138 non-citizens convicted of sex offences arrested in a national immigration sweep. ICE said its Enforcement and Removal...
Federal authorities filed drug trafficking charges Friday against three men allegedly involved in a deadly shootout with US Customs and Border Protection agents off the coast of Puerto Rico. One agent was killed and two more were injured after men...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has announced an across-the-board increase of eight per cent to public servants, teachers, members of the disciplined services, constitutional office holders, as well as government...
MONTREAL (AP) — A Canadian man has been charged with planning a terrorist act to overthrow the Haitian government of the late President Jovenel Moïse, authorities said Thursday. Gérald Nicolas, 51, will appear at the Quebec...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former vice-president of football's world governing body FIFA, Austin 'Jack' Warner, on Thursday lost his fight at the Privy Council against extradition to the United States on corruption charges....
WASHINGTON, CMC – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, Wednesday called for countries to implement tools proven to keep communities safe in the run-up to the festive period amid concerns that the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents said they seized US$2 million worth of cocaine on Wednesday that was strewn on a beach in Puerto Rico and discovered the body of a man trapped under a nearby boat that was carrying the drugs. Agents...
