BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum Tuesday said that wetter than normal seasonal rainfall is expected from Jamaica across to Puerto Rico between June and August. In its latest report, the entity...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Bermuda shuttered its schools, businesses and government agencies as Tropical Storm Alex brushed past the British overseas territory on Monday after killing three people in Cuba and deluging parts of Florida. The...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic's minister of the environment and natural resources was shot and killed in his office on Monday by a close friend, the office of the president said in a statement....
Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, gained a bit more force as it headed toward Bermuda on Sunday after dumping rain on parts of Florida, flooding some roads. Alex reached tropical storm force after...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 4, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago has passed a law that will allow skilled regional workers to access jobs in the country. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Skilled Nationals (Amendment) Bill 2022 was passed...
MIAMI (AP) — Parts of Florida braced for heavy rain and wind Saturday as a storm system that battered Mexico moves across the state. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm once known as Agatha in the Pacific Ocean...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Tropical storm warnings were issued early Friday for much of the Florida peninsula, Cuba and the Bahamas as a system that battered Mexico moves through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing threats of heavy rain and wind...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has rejected a proposal from the St Augustine campus of The University of the West Indies for an increase in tuition fees. Instead, the government has suggested that the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's water and sewer company was hit by a federal lawsuit on Thursday demanding that it provide services to thousands of residents who lack potable water on a daily basis. The class-action lawsuit was...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Transportation Department on Wednesday made it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba, lifting flight restrictions that were established during the Trump administration. The restrictions had prevented US...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The director of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, has called for countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to exercise additional vigilance as the influenza and hurricane seasons...
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba (AP) — Like many Cubans before him, Roberto De la Yglesia left most of his family behind when he made his way to the United States with only his son in 2015, hoping that he could soon bring his wife and daughters to join him...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders “not to attend” next month's Summit of the Americas to be held in the United States....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — (AP) — Widespread flooding in Suriname has isolated communities, devastated crops and shuttered schools and businesses, according to authorities. Heavy rains in recent days battered the country’s interior...
A visually-impaired Caribbean diplomat is arguing that the region needs to provide for people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction planning, and life in general.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The smokestack of a Carnival Cruise ship docked in the Turks & Caicos Islands caught fire on Thursday. Officials allowed guests and crew members to go ashore as heavy smoke billowed into the air. Carnival said...
HAVANA (AP) — Marylín Álvarez seemed to be just the sort of person that eased American sanctions on Cuba were meant to help. With the aid of money sent by a cousin living in the United States, she began transforming the entrance...
Guyana has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to go on an alert for the monkeypox virus, urging all medical personnel to immediately report severe skin rashes accompanied by other symptoms.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on US travellers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United States Coast Guard announced Monday that it suspended the search for potential survivors of a capsized boat near Puerto Rico after finding 11 bodies and rescuing 38 migrants from a vessel that had...
Cuba, CMC – The National Institute of Social Security is carrying out a centralised process of granting pensions, in a quick way, for all the affected workers and relatives of the victims of the accident at the Saratoga hotel. According to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighbouring Dominican Republic, where they board rickety wooden boats painted sky blue to blend with the ocean to try to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the United States have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang in connection with the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Germine Joly, 29, who...
MIAMI (AP) — A former Haitian senator is facing charges in the United States related to last year's assassination of former Haiti President Jovenel Moïse, authorities said. John Joel Joseph made his initial appearance Monday in Miami...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Eight Turkish citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti's capital, an official told The Associated Press on Monday, apparently the latest in a string of high-profile kidnappings by powerful gangs. Hugues Josue,...
