WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Haitian politicians are facing United States sanctions over allegations they abused their positions to traffic drugs in collaboration with gang networks and directed others to engage in violence. The Treasury...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Depression Lisa moved into southern Mexico on Thursday, a day after making landfall as a hurricane near Belize City in the Central American nation of Belize and heading inland over northern Guatemala. The United...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 30th year, with the Biden administration continuing former President Donald Trump's...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines, CMC – The organisation representing the welfare of police officers across the region has called for harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for anyone found guilty of killing a cop. The St...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The police in Dominica are investigating the murder of a patient at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital on Monday evening. Lawmen said two masked men went to Ronald Desiree's bedside on the Alford Ward and shot...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Lisa strengthened as it pushed across the western Caribbean Tuesday south of the Cayman Islands and was forecast to make landfall, likely as a hurricane, in Central America as early as Wednesday. The United...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Lisa formed Monday in the Caribbean south of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and was forecast to make landfall, likely as a hurricane, in Central America later in the week. The United States National Hurricane...
HAVANA (AP) — A boat off northern Cuba travelling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday. The craft reportedly flipped over after...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Almost half the population of Haiti is currently experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity. This is based on the latest analysis which shows a major deterioration of the food crisis in...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Air Canada on Friday resumed its operations to Cuba with Havana as destination, in correspondence to other foreign airlines that are also increasing their flights and routes for the winter season. According to the Cuban...
OTTAWA, Canada, CMC – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a clear plan of action before any mission to help Haiti goes forward. Trudeau was speaking in the province of Manitoba, a day after his...
MIAMI, CMC – A Trinidadian man who lives in Fort Lauderdale, in the US, has been sentenced to 84 months in prison for mailing US$10,000 to a hitman. Ryan Hadeed, who pleaded guilty in July, was sentenced on Thursday by...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Some 96,000 people have fled their homes in Haiti's capital, the United Nation's International Organization for Migration said Friday, as the country faces a crisis that has prompted the government to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal authorities said Wednesday that they confiscated more than $26 million worth of cocaine near Puerto Rico in one of the largest seizures this year. More than 2,600 pounds of cocaine were found inside a...
TAMPA, Florida, CMC – Three people, including two Trinidadians, have appeared in a Florida court charged with conspiracy to smuggle goods, including firearms and firearm components, from the United States to the Caribbean country. US attorney...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC –The United States has condemned the attack on journalists in Haiti as prominent media worker, Roberson Alphonse, is recovering in hospital after he was shot in his car while on his way to work in the capital on...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A High Court on Tuesday awarded former central bank governor, Jwala Rambarran, TT$5.47 million in compensation for being wrongfully dismissed in December 2015. Justice Devindra Rampersad upheld Rambarran's...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC –The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)has announced the closure of its mango preclearance programme in Haiti, blaming the “worsening challenges” faced by its inspectors in the French-...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former deputy speaker of the Barbados Parliament, and government legislator, Neil Rowe, has been granted bail and will return to court on January 30 next year on a charge of rape. Rowe, was not required to enter a...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday demanding an immediate end to violence and criminal activity in Haiti and imposing sanctions on individuals and groups threatening peace and...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Supporters of a United Nations resolution that would demand an immediate end to violence and criminal activity in Haiti and impose sanctions on influential gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, nicknamed “Barbecue,”...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Wednesday criticised Guyana's Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, for his premature release of an embargoed ruling regarding an election petition. “This is...
MIAMI (AP) — The United States said Tuesday it has offered critical emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Cuba to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian, an unusual but not unprecedented move after years of...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Mexico said Monday they are preparing a United Nations resolution that would authorise an international mission to help improve security in Haiti, whose government issued a “distress call...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in a slum controlled by gangs in the capital, according to a report released Friday...
