PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has announced the postponement of the constitutional referendum that was originally scheduled for June 27. While the authorities have not disclosed a new date for the referendum that had been criticised by...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The Government of St Kitts and Nevis has introduced one of the strictest travel protocols due to COVID-19. According to the St Kitts Tourism Authority, only vaccinated travellers will be welcomed based on a new...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC - Prime Minister Gaston Browne says that his administration will give illegal immigrants a four-month extension if they get vaccinated against COVID-19. In making the announcement on Saturday, Browne said that people who...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government said on Saturday that it hopes to reopen the borders within the next four to six weeks as the country acquires more COVID-19 vaccines. The virus has so far killed 556 people...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands has started genome sequencing of local COVID-19 cases making the territory the first in the region, outside of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), to do so. This was revealed...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas says it has deported 95 Haitians including six children. The Bahamas Immigration said that the Haitians, including 22 women, were deported on Thursday from New Providence to Port-au-Prince. It said the...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda Government is offering a parcel of land measuring 8,000 square feet as an inducement to get nationals to get vaccinated as the island moves to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19...
GENEVA — Japan's prime minister announced another $800 million to the World Health Organization-backed programme to deploy COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries, a four-fold increase of Japanese funding to the COVAX programme. Yoshihide...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The University of Guyana (UG) is calling for an increase in the number of law students from its law faculty to get automatic admission to the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School. A government statement said that a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum says the early wet season is forecast to bring an increase in wet days and wet spells and that there is no major concern for shorter-term drought in the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The African Union has allocated 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana's Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony, announced on Monday. Regional...
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence, and dwindling resources, a UNICEF report said Monday....
MIAMI (AP) — A search for 10 Cubans missing from a capsized boat continued Friday, a day after the US Coast Guard rescued eight other passengers and pulled two bodies from the water. The group was first spotted on routine patrol 18 miles...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti, rocked by 933 new cases and 38 deaths from the coronavirus (COVID-19) since the start of this month, has issued a state of health emergency throughout the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Finance Minister Curtis Dickinson has said that residents feeling the pinch from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can withdraw up to US$6,000 from their pensions. Dickinson said that the decision to allow further...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The administration of Premier Andrew Fahie will be exploring reports that private companies have been terminating employees who have declined to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Following reports, Fahie stated...
HAVANA (AP) — People leaving Cuba can no longer change their local bills back into US dollars, Euros, or other hard currencies at the official exchange rate under a new policy announced this week. The government closed the airport departure...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –The Belize government has formally informed bondholders that it will not be able to make a scheduled US$7 million coupon payment to its international bondholders that was due on Thursday. Belize is looking to...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The University of the West Indies (UWI) has formulated a financial aid strategy for new and returning Vincentian students as a form of support for the volcano-hit island. The financial aid package, which UWI Vice-...
WASHINGTON, May 19, – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa F Etienne, Wednesday called for closing the “glaring gaps” in access to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in Latin America and the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the extreme uncertainty surrounding tourism recovery in the Caribbean highlights the importance of boosting innovation and supporting transformations that align tourism...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has warned striking teachers from blocking the highway as two educators were arrested and charged on Monday with “attempting to set a bonfire without the permission of the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad's Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith said Monday that at least 250,000 people have applied for exemptions under the eight-hour curfew that came into effect last weekend in a bid to curb the spread...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked three islands in the Eastern Caribbean early Sunday. The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies said the quake occurred just after 8:00 a.m. and...
HAVANA (AP) — The jab didn't even hurt, and Mabel Aguilera figures it may finally let her see granddaughters on the other side of Cuba who she hasn't glimpsed during many months of pandemic restrictions. “Sometimes I thought I...
