CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – More than 160,000 registered voters are casting ballots today to elect a new government in St Lucia with the two main political parties expressing confidence in running the affairs of the island for the next five...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus says that several tremors rocked areas in north-west Trinidad early Sunday morning. The 3.9 magnitude quake, which occurred...
A Commonwealth Observer Group is in St Lucia for the general elections scheduled for Monday, July 26. The team will be deployed to polling stations across the country to observe pre-poll preparations, voting day, and result counting processes...
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — The body of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was returned to his hometown Friday for a private funeral amid heavy security following violent protests and fears of political volatility in the Caribbean...
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — A priest told mourners at a memorial Thursday for slain President Jovenel Moïse that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence ahead of his funeral. The Reverend Jean-Gilles...
BUCARAMANGA, Colombia (AP) — As the coronavirus pandemic squeezed Colombia, the Romero family was in need of money to pay the mortgage. Mauricio Romero Medina's $790 a month pension as a retired soldier wasn't going far. Then came a...
A Bermuda couple reappeared in Magistrates' Court on Wednesday denying additional charges of breaching the government's coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine regulations. Sophia Cannonier, 53, and Michael Watson, 46, were charged with...
BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – The High Court Monday sentenced former chief minister, David Brandt, to 15 years in prison after he had earlier been found guilty on six counts of sexual exploitation and one count of perverting the course of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry will replace the country's interim prime minister to honour the wishes of the country's slain president, an official told The Associated Press on Monday....
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says public sector workers who are not willing to take a vaccine to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be required to test regularly to prove their status. In addition, he...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States will bolster security at its embassy in Haiti following last week's assassination of that country's president, but sending American troops to stabilise...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Public sector workers took to the streets on Wednesday urging the Grenada government to restore their constitutionally guaranteed right to a pension on retirement. The protest was organised by the Public...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former Haitian senator, a fired government official, and an informant for the United States government are the latest suspects identified as part of a sweeping investigation into the killing of President Jovenel...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians are not only wondering who killed their president, but who's running the country. At least three men claim to be the legitimate head of government, complicating the investigation into the...
HAVANA (AP) — Large contingents of Cuban police patrolled the capital of Havana on Monday following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis. Cuba's president said the...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he is not in favour of any military presence in Haiti as the French-speaking member country continues its investigation into the...
HAVANA (AP) — Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana's Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis, in one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory....
Barbados has reimposed daily curfews as part of new COVID containment measures amid a spike in new infections. The new measures were announced by Health and Wellness Minister Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic at a press conference...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian authorities have made more arrests in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, raiding Taiwan's Embassy where several suspects are believed to have sought refuge, while also detaining two...
PORT Au PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has declared a state of siege in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the injury to his wife, Martine, during an armed attack at their private...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — The United States National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Elsa has made landfall along north Florida's Gulf Coast. The storm's centre went ashore in Taylor County, a lightly populated area, on...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will meet later today following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moïse, CARICOM chairman Gaston Browne has said. Browne, the Antigua and Barbuda Prime...
BERLIN (AP) — The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse drew shock and condemnation from leaders in Latin America, Europe and elsewhere on Wednesday, along with calls for calm and unity in Haiti. Moïse was killed in...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A team from the Air Accident Investigation Authority is expected to be deployed to Treasure Cay on Tuesday after two people were killed when a jet crashed in bushes near the Treasure Cay International Airport in...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Hurricane Elsa, the first named storm of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, was churning through the Eastern Caribbean Sea late on Friday after uprooting trees and blowing away roofs in at least three Caribbean...
