PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning that the Omicron BA.5 sub-variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) will cause a massive increase in cases across the region. CARPHA's...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Suspected gang members set fire to a courthouse near Haiti's capital early Tuesday in the most recent incident targeting the country's crumbling judicial system. Roosevelt Zamor, the prosecutor for the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves Monday proposed a single-item referendum asking the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to decide whether to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth with a non-executive, home-...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas combed shorelines and open waters on Monday in hopes of finding more survivors after a boat carrying up to an estimated 60 Haitian migrants apparently capsized. Divers have found the...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A boat carrying Haitian migrants apparently capsized off the Bahamas early Sunday, and Bahamian security forces recovered the bodies of 17 people and rescued 25 others, authorities said. It wasn't clear if there were...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Bermuda has become the latest Caribbean country to confirm a case of the monkeypox virus, while St Lucia said it is monitoring six suspected cases, including four with no travel history out of the island. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it was forced to end its COVID-19 booster programme for people between the ages of 12 to 18 because they failed to make use of thousands of doses of a vaccine...
HAVANA (AP) — Young people come and go on their electric motorcycles on a highway outside Cuba's capital where they perform stunts and talk about their two-wheelers, which would be largely silent if it weren't for the music blasting...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – A request by President Chandrikapersad Santokhi to meet with protesters demanding that his government changes its socio-economic policies or resign has been rebuffed with plans to take to the streets again on...
HAVANA (AP) — Dany Pérez had spent four days in a line of vehicles waiting to fill his truck with diesel he needs for the 900-kilometre trip from Havana to his home in eastern Cuba. Taxi driver Jhojan Rodríguez had been waiting...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Saturday confirmed its first case of the monkeypox virus with officials indicating that the island is fully prepared to handle the situation. Health and Wellness Minister, Ian Goodign Edghill, in a...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday that calls on all countries to stop the transfer of small arms, light weapons and ammunition to any party in crisis-torn Haiti supporting gang...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution that calls on all countries to stop the transfer of small arms, light weapons and ammunition to any party supporting gang violence and criminal...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says a Jamaica-based investment group is to spend an estimated US$5 million to create an entertainment and amusement centre. The facility is to be built at one of the country...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighbourhood of Haiti's capital, the latest eruption of bloodshed in a wave of increasing violence sweeping the country, local officials...
HAVANA (AP) — A year after the largest protests in decades shook Cuba's single-party government, hundreds of people who participated are in prison and the economic and political factors that caused the demonstrations largely remain....
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn't whip any with their reins “intentionally or otherwise,”...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his private home where an elite security team was supposed to protect him. Not only have authorities failed to identify and arrest all...
ANKARA, Turkey, CMC – The High Criminal Court of Istanbul has rejected a request for the extradition of Jordanian businessman Samir Nasri Salem Handal to Haiti to stand trial for his alleged involvement in the assassination of President...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – St Lucia Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre on Sunday urged regional countries to move swiftly to create a lasting, reliable and affordable regional transportation infrastructure. Pierre, speaking at the opening...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations says that rising gang crime in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is limiting access to education and is preventing thousands of children from going to school. In a statement on Sunday,...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities announced Thursday they have suspended the operations of Puerto Rico-based Euro Pacific International Bank, which officials previously said was under suspicion of facilitating money laundering and...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Puerto Rico announced another electricity rate increase Wednesday, the seventh in a year amid continuing power outages and the US territory's economic crisis. For a client who consumes 800...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Carbon monoxide poisoning killed three United States tourists found dead at a resort in the Bahamas in May, police announced Tuesday. Authorities did not provide further details, saying the deaths were still under...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday reported power outages related to a tropical disturbance speeding through the southern Caribbean on a path to Central America. Officials said the storm also temporarily shut down...
