SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the US territory, forcing it to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have arrested a prison director, a police officer and a court clerk accused of releasing a gang leader in exchange for bribes, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Police are now searching for an...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's government has granted permission for United States supermajor ExxonMobil to develop a fourth offshore oil and gas field. The company said Monday it has made a final investment decision on the $10...
The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) today said a persistent weak La Nina pattern is expected to continue during the next three months, which may drive increasing uncertainty into the seasonal rainfall forecast.
Popular Soca star, Dexter Stewart, better known as ‘Blaxx’, died at the Intensive Care Unit of the Arima Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago today after contracting COVID-19, his manager Giselle Gellineau-Penrose has confirmed.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states today called for a policy to deal with rising food prices globally, as they joined their Latin American counterparts in discussing the agri-food sector which is regarded as critical to move beyond the crisis that has engulfed the world over the past two years.
Haiti is still to reach two per cent of its population in the vaccination drive against COVID-19, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said today in a new report that indicates only a tiny proportion of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in developing countries.
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley wants to see the dismantling of the old global order and replaced with a new order that promotes world peace.
LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Kate are embarking on a tour to Central America and the Caribbean, even as some countries in the region mull cutting ties to the British monarchy. The couple will visit Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas on the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals across Haiti have gone on strike to protest a spike in gang-related kidnappings. The three-day strike that began on Monday shut down public and private...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's government formally exited bankruptcy Tuesday, completing the largest public debt restructuring in United States history after announcing nearly seven years ago that it was unable to pay its...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- One of Trinidad's leading writers, researchers and political scientists, Professor Selwyn Ryan, has died. According to local reports, Ryan passed away on Sunday morning. Following news of his death, Minister of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Activists supporting same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda received a heavy blow Monday following a ruling by a top appeals court in London. The United Kingdom's Privy Council, which serves as...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada on Thursday announced that it has suspended the acceptance of new applications from citizens from Russia and Belarus for its Citizenship by Investment Programme. The move, which took immediate effect,...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The widow of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is urging the authorities to ensure that all those who played a role in his murder be arrested and brought to trial. In a brief statement marking the...
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants in a suspected human smuggling operation ran aground in shallow water in the Florida Keys, where 163 people swam ashore and many needed medical attention, federal...
HAVANA (AP) — The United States government announced Thursday that it would resume limited processing of immigrant visas in Havana more than four years after halting that service and removing most diplomats from Cuba over suspicions they...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders, Friday said that his country is instituting measures to implement international sanctions against named Russian persons and entities. Foreign...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The authorities in Dominican Republic on Wednesday handed over to Haiti a former Haitian police officer linked to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the latest suspect arrested in a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum says for the three-month period March to May, a persistent weak La Niña pattern is expected to transition to near neutral conditions during the upcoming...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping today joined the global community in strongly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. CARICOM has called for an immediate and complete withdrawal of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Men wearing police uniforms fired into a group of people at a protest and killed a journalist Wednesday after thousands of Haitian factory workers launched a new strike to demand higher wages than those the prime...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell Wednesday called for the elimination of roaming charges within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Mitchell made the call as the regional grouping moved one...
MIAMI (AP) — A fisherman who was bitten by a shark near the Bahamas was pulled to safety by a United States Coast Guard helicopter crew after his mates tightened a tourniquet around his arm. The crew from Air Station Miami lifted the man...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is reporting that 14 member countries have vaccinated 70 per cent or more of their populations against COVID-19. PAHO Director, Dr Carissa Etienne, says the entity is on track to help other nations...
