Published:Wednesday | November 24, 2021 | 10:47 AM
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has joined national partners in calling for United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer to include a roadmap to citizenship for millions of immigrants,...
LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — Schools closed across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Monday and France's president warned of a “very explosive” situation in the territory after protests against COVID-19 rules and...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two of 17 abducted members of a missionary group have been freed in Haiti and are safe, “in good spirits and being cared for,” their Ohio-based church organisation announced Sunday. Christian Aid...
PARIS (AP) — French authorities are sending police special forces to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, an overseas territory of France, as protests over COVID-19 restrictions erupted into rioting. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is reporting that 750 million doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines have been administered across member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. PAHO Director, Dr Carissa Etienne, said that the...
WASHINGTON, 2021 – Remittance flows into Latin America and the Caribbean will likely reach a new high of US$126 billion in 2021, registering a solid advance of 21.6 per cent compared to 2020, according to estimates from the...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have issued a 40-day temporary custody order for a man considered a suspect in the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and placed him in a prison in Istanbul, Turkey's...
A 19-year-old man appeared in the Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with the October murder of two men at a popular Hamilton pub. Siohn Akinstall is accused of killing Ayinde Eve, 27, and Micah Davis, 22. Davis was celebrating his birthday...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader said Friday he is easing a chokehold on fuel deliveries that has caused a growing crisis for hospitals, gas stations and even water supplies across the nation's capital. G9 gang...
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he has instructed the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat to seek vaccines and pills from the United States government as the region continues to deal with the impact of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United States government is urging citizens to leave Haiti because of the country's deepening insecurity and a severe lack of fuel that has affected hospitals, schools and banks. Gas stations...
Published:Wednesday | November 10, 2021 | 12:13 PM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico judge on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the CEO of Luma, the company that operates transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico, after he was accused of not submitting documents sought by...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says there will be no further extension for travellers to take the second dose of a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and that only fully vaccinated people will be allowed into the country. “...
HAVANA (AP) — Crafts vendors are returning to the streets, transport between provinces is gradually returning to normal and crowds once again line the seafront Malecon boulevard as night falls over the Cuban capital. The characteristic bustle...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved US$65 million of non-reimbursable financing to contribute to the sustainable economic development of northern Haiti. The assistance will help to promote the necessary...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's fuel crisis is deepening, with the country's Professional Association of Banks announcing Friday that a shortage of petroleum is forcing institutions to cut their hours and days as dozens of gas...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — UNICEF has warned that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of robbery or ransom. The agency said that at least seven schools in the capital of Port-au-...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A Supreme Court judge has given a convicted Jamaican sex offender fresh hope of remaining in Bermuda after staying a deportation order against him. Brittonie Taylor, who served eight years for a serious sexual assault...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Opposition legislators were on Friday prevented from participating in the sitting of the Senate because they did not show proof of being vaccinated against COVID-19. They accused Speaker of the House of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Prime Minister Ariel Henry condemned gangs and kidnappings in a prerecorded address posted Friday in which he also reassured Haitians that the country was not running out of fuel despite severe shortages that have...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's capital has been brought to the brink of exhaustion by fuel shortages, after staggering along despite an earthquake, the assassination of the president, gang violence and mass kidnappings. More than...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A United States religious organisation whose 17 members were kidnapped in Haiti asked supporters on Friday to pray and share stories with the victims' families of how their faith helped them through...
Yasin Abu Bakr, the leader of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen, who staged an unsuccessful coup against the government of Prime Minister ANR Robinson on July 27, 1990, died on Thursday night, relatives have confirmed. In a message posted on social...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Governor General Dame Sandra Mason has been elected as Barbados' first President. Mason secured the support of all members of the House of Assembly and all but one Senator during a joint sitting of the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Negotiations stretched into a fourth day seeking the return of 17 members of a United States-based missionary group kidnapped over the weekend by a violent gang that is demanding $1 million ransom per person. The...
