KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A 56-year-old vendor will reappear in a magistrate's court on September 15 after she pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of throwing missiles that could have resulted in hurting people who were present...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2021 | 10:02 AM
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines says five cases of the latest strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) have been detected in the country and health authorities are warning that it is more transmittable and able to...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — A tropical storm watch has been posted in Bermuda as Hurricane Larry continues to head towards the British Overseas Territory. Forecasters have predicted that Larry, a Category 3 hurricane packing 115 miles per hour...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana, in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, has issued amendments to its COVID-19 guidelines, which dealt with vaccination requirements for government buildings, to now include all public buildings inclusive...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than half a million children are at risk of life-threatening waterborne diseases following the devastating and powerful earthquake that rocked...
Published:Wednesday | September 1, 2021 | 12:19 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — In the nearly two months since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, Haiti has suffered a devastating earthquake and a drenching tropical storm, the twin natural disasters deflecting attention from the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Public Service Union has said that it will legally challenge a decision by the authorities to lock out nurses and other government employees who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 or refuse to take...
JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) — United States military aircraft are now ferrying food, tarps and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest hit by the recent...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United States pledged another $32 million in aid to the victims of Haiti's 7.2-magnitude earthquake Thursday, as the country's interim prime minister defended his government's response. US ...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada's Health Minister Nickolas Steele says he is prepared to suffer the financial consequences after he was photographed recently in the company of American actor and martial artist Steven Seagal not...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Orderlies pushed Jertha Ylet's bed from the centre of the hospital ward to one side so Dr Michelet Paurus could plug in his electric saw. She was silent as the doctor cut off her plaster cast in measured...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian justice official has appointed a new judge to oversee the investigation into the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, acting more than a week after his predecessor withdrew from the case and as the...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian gang leader on Sunday offered a truce and help for communities shattered by a devastating earthquake — potentially offering a break for a relief effort that has been plagued by hijacked aid trucks and...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's Civil Protection Agency said Sunday that the toll from this month's magnitude 7.2 earthquake has grown to 2,207, with 344 people still missing. The previous figure had been 2,189 on Wednesday. The...
LYON, France, CMC – The International Police (Interpol) has warned all of its 194 member countries, including those in the Caribbean, to be on the lookout for organised crime groups attempting to defraud governments with fake offers to sell...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — As if Haiti's 7.2 magnitude earthquake, a tropical storm and the coronavirus pandemic weren't enough, the temblor damaged the only medical oxygen plant in the southern part of the country. The building that...
NASSAU, The Bahamas, CMC – Bahamians will go to the polls on September 16, eight months before a general election is constitutionally due, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced Thursday morning. Minnis stressed that whoever emerges...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Tensions have been growing over the slow pace of aid reaching victims of a powerful weekend earthquake that killed more than 2,100 people in Haiti and was trailed by a drenching tropical depression. At the small...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's government on Tuesday spelled out its laws against using social media or the Internet to stir up protests or insult the state — and offered people a form to report offenders. The decrees published in the...
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Wednesday said it will make a payment of approximately US$40 million to Haiti following the devastating 7.2 earthquake last Saturday that killed...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Tropical Storm Grace swept over Haiti with drenching rains just two days after a powerful earthquake battered the impoverished Caribbean nation, adding to the misery of thousands who lost loved ones, suffered injuries...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this quake-ravaged coastal town, where 15 bodies had already been extracted. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel...
The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti has soared to 724 as rescuers race to find survivors before an approaching tropical storm. Some 2,800 other people have been injured in the Caribbean nation, with thousands more...
The death toll from Saturday's powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti has reached 304 with another 1,800 people injured. Rescue workers and bystanders were able to pull many people to safety from the rubble. Meanwhile, hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry has appealed for help as the death toll mounted to 28 following a powerful 7.2 earthquake in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country on Saturday morning. Henry has...
