KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government says farmers as well as other people employed in the volcano Red Zone will get financial support for the rest of the year to help cope with the loss of income as a...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank Wednesday said despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, remittance flows remained resilient in 2020, registering a smaller decline than previously projected. Officially recorded remittance flows to low and...
Belizean Dr Carla Barnett has been selected as the new Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the first woman to hold the post. The unanimous decision was made at a virtual special session of CARICOM heads of...
WASHINGTON, CMC – A new study published by the World Bank has found a strikingly large percentage of workers and firms operate outside the line of sight of governments in emerging markets and developing economies. It said that this is a...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has urged residents of the region not to neglect to protect themselves against mosquito-borne diseases, even as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic. During the last...
ATLANTA, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection agency says it has intercepted a Georgia woman arriving at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on a flight from Jamaica with cocaine. “Upon closer...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network Wednesday said while pockets of drought are currently developing in the region, there are not many concerns over short-term drought by...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has warned of the possibility of implementing a mandatory vaccination programme in Antigua and Barbuda as he criticised persons who were encouraging others not to participate in the national inoculation initiative aimed...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Kidnappers in Haiti have released five priests, two nuns, and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks, Roman Catholic authorities said Friday. The France-based Society of Priests of St. James,...
Former Government minister Donville Inniss has been sentenced to two years in a US prison for laundering bribes he received from a Barbadian insurance company through an American bank. After his release, he is to be supervised...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic only through national immunisation programmes and officially authorised mechanisms, warning that...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis says that persons who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to travel to The Bahamas as of May 1 and be exempted from testing requirements. Minnis, who made the announcement...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has hit out at the United States following the recent advisory in which Washington warned Americans against travel to the island in the wake of the COVID-19...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Trinidad and Tobago has recorded a case of the Brazilian variant of COVID-19. The Ministry of Health stated that a sample was taken from a COVID-19 positive patient in the Mayaro County and was sent to the...
GRAND Cayman, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Monday said that it would be paying out an estimated US$2.2 million for relief and recovery efforts following the eruption of the La Soufriè...
HAVANA (AP) — In many ways, Cuba’s new maximum leader is nothing like those who have governed the island for the past six decades. Miguel Díaz-Canel was never a guerrilla fighter and was for only a few years, like all Cubans of...
Caribbean American Congresswoman, Yvette D. Clarke, has called for the Joe Biden administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to persons evacuated from the Red Zone in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where the La Soufrière volcano...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (AP) — The La Soufrière volcano shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash on Friday as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St Vincent island coated in ash...
HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the Internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed the pastor and three parishioners and led them away in full view of cameras. For...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (AP) — Officials in St Vincent said Thursday that they were extremely worried about a COVID-19 outbreak given the lack of water and more positive cases being reported as thousands of evacuees fleeing the erupting...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Finance Minister Roy McTaggart is being tipped to lead the new coalition government in the British Overseas Territory after voters on Wednesday re-elected 12 incumbents and seven newcomers, including three...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Ongoing volcanic eruptions have displaced about 20% of people in the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent as a United Nations official on Wednesday warned of a growing humanitarian crisis. Between 16,000 to...
Warning that COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to the Americas have slowed, Pan American Health Organization Director Dr Carissa F Etienne is urging countries to employ a “comprehensive strategy” of not only immunisation but also public...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe has announced his resignation with President Jovenel Moïse saying that his departure “will make it possible to address the glaring problem of insecurity” in the French-...
