SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Persistent power outages and threats from Puerto Rico's government prompted a company that operates the island's transmission and distribution system to announce Wednesday that it would dedicate more...
HAVANA (AP) — Cubans lined up by the dozens at exchange houses on Tuesday for the chance to buy dollars and other hard currency from the government for the first time in two years. The new policy announced Monday night comes almost three...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Education Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin has welcomed the decision by the Bahamas Union of Teachers whose members have decided to forgo industrial action and return to classrooms. “Well, I don't want to get into...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of protesters in Haiti's capital and other major cities blocked roads, shut down businesses, and marched through the streets Monday to demand that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and called for...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor on Thursday denounced the private company his administration contracted to take over the island's power transmission and distribution system amid a recent spike in electricity...
MIAMI (AP) — United States investigators say they have noticed an uptick in the amount and calibre of weapons being smuggled from Florida to Haiti in recent months. Anthony Salisbury, chief of the Miami Homeland Security Investigations office...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Bermuda is to start allowing unvaccinated tourists into the island. The new rule will come into effect from next Monday, Health Minister Kim Wilson announced on Wednesday night. Under current...
ST GEORGE'S Grenada, CMC – Chief Magistrate Teddy St Louis Wednesday fined four Trinidadians EC$5,500 each after they pleaded guilty to committing grievous harm on Grenada's reigning world javelin champion Anderson Peters. The...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Cuban doctor has been shot to death at a hospital in a rough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mexico City, prosecutors in the State of Mexico confirmed late Monday. The doctor, whose name was not provided, was killed...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The body of former newspaper editor, Suzanne Mills, was discovered at her home in Diamond Vale, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday night, the Newsday newspaper reported today. Newsday said the body of 59-year-old...
HAVANA (AP) — Officials said Thursday that a second firefighter has died in Cuba, where crews have controlled a massive blaze that began last week at a key oil storage facility amid a deepening energy crisis. The 24-year-old firefighter...
HAVANA (AP) — Flames engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility in western Cuba on Tuesday as the raging fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island grappling with a growing energy crisis. Firefighters and specialists from Mexico...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A United States Coast Guard cutter and a Puerto Rico fishing boat collided Monday in an incident that killed one person and injured another, officials said. The accident occurred in the early afternoon near the...
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Police Commissioner Milton Desir today acknowledged the need for assistance from “the region or internationally” as St Lucia deals with a crime wave, including the murder of a 72-year-old British...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is offering support to firefighters and search crews in Cuba following the fire and explosions at a big oil tank farm in the western province of Matanzas. In a telegram Monday to Cuban bishops, Francis said he was...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – A four-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) election observation mission arrived in St. Kitts & Nevis on Wednesday evening ahead of tomorrow's general election. The CARICOM Election Observation Mission (...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Although Trinidad and Tobago has so far not recorded any cases of monkeypox, the Government has ordered 2,000 doses of vaccine to fight the virus from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Minister of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A record amount of seaweed is smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados as tonnes of brown algae kill wildlife, choke the tourism industry and release toxic gases. More than 24 million tons of...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Police have detained 31 “active gang members” as the authorities declared a state of emergency to quell gang warfare in the Lake Independence area that occupies portions of western and southern Belize City...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says at least four more names are expected to be added to the list of National Heroes. Gonsalves said that recommendations will be made to the Governor General to have Ebenezer...
HAVANA (AP) — Some 141 Haitian migrants are stranded on Cuba's southern coast, Cuban authorities said Saturday, part of a series of large-scale efforts by Haitians to flee their troubled nation. The official Cubadebate website said the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent CMC – The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines says it is now willing to rehire public sector workers who lost their jobs last year after failing to take a COVID-19 vaccine, as required by law. In...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least five migrants drowned and another 66 were rescued on Thursday after a suspected human smuggling boat dropped the group off in waters near an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico, officials said. Federal...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have continued their strong post-pandemic rebound, but “the winds are shifting” as global financial conditions tighten,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire echoed throughout downtown Port-au-Prince on Wednesday as suspected gang members set a church on fire and tried to kill their opponents in a bid to gain control over more territory. The intense...
