KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (AP) — Leaders of volcano-wracked St Vincent said Tuesday that water is running short as heavy ash contaminates supplies and they estimated that the eastern Caribbean island will need hundreds of millions of...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (AP) — The La Soufrière volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Premier David Burt announced on Sunday night that he has tested positive for the COVD-19 and that Bermuda will return to a shelter-at-home policy from Tuesday morning for at least seven days to help curb a...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A magistrate has sentenced a 21-year-old mother to six months in prison after she presented a false Doctor’s Hospital COVID-19 test result when she attempted to travel last week. The court heard last Friday that...
The UWI Seismic Research is reporting that as of 8:41 am EST, an explosive eruption began at La Soufrière volcano in St Vincent. The seismic activity began on April 8, the first time since 1979. St Vincent’s national emergency...
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has issued an immediate evacuation order for north easterly and north westerly communities in an area designed as “the Red Zone” in the immediate path of the raging La Soufrière volcano. The...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has told teachers ahead of Monday’s re-opening of schools that they should have a government-approved coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine or have been tested for the virus,...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – At least three people have died and three others are missing following torrential rains that have caused widespread damage and flooding over the long Easter weekend, the authorities have confirmed. They said that...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti does not have a single vaccine to offer its more than 11 million people over a year after the pandemic began, raising concerns among health experts that the well-being of Haitians is being pushed aside as...
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement this morning, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) indicated that Rowley began experiencing flu-like symptoms yesterday evening and was...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A policewoman is among three people charged with gun trafficking following the discovery of a firearm with ammunition and a silencer at their house. Kurl Ann McEachnie, an acting police inspector attached to the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The High Court has upheld the Government’s decision to close the twin-island republic’s borders in its effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. In a written ruling handed down on Monday, in response...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The police have arrested two men following a drug operation that took place earlier this week in which a police helicopter spotted and interrupted what appeared to be a drug transfer at sea between a...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Ten new cases have pushed Bermuda’s COVID-19 total to 113, with schoolchildren making up a third of active cases, health officials have said. Several Government schools will therefore move to remote learning,...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The lead scientist monitoring the La Soufrière volcano, Professor Richard Robertson, says an increase in earthquakes at the site could suggest that an explosive eruption could happen soon. La Soufriè...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – A 33-year-old Grenadian woman has become the first person to be charged for presenting a fake COVID-19 test result since Grenada enforced the requirement of a mandatory negative PCR test to obtain an entry...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Brantley has asked the United States for a donation of COVID-19 vaccines for the twin-island federation and the wider Caribbean region. Brantley, who is also Nevis’ Premier, said he had made the request...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — They come from New York, Illinois, Michigan, and authorities say too many of the tourists are flouting Puerto Rico’s pandemic health measures, including the mask mandate, the nightly curfew, and a...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has written to United States President Joe Biden requesting that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries be given some of the AstraZeneca vaccines his government is providing to...
MIAMI (AP) — Two Royal Caribbean cruises will resume in June, ending a yearlong hiatus, but passengers 18 and older must test negative for COVID-19 before getting on a ship. The company’s Celebrity Cruises subsidiary said Friday that...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Health authorities in Grenada are considering changing the quarantine period for all incoming passengers who are fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved for emergency used by the World Health...
FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique, CMC – The Government has suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, following the lead of France and several other countries that have taken the step after some people who got the jab developed blood...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines procured through COVAX, the global mechanism for equitable distribution of vaccines, are expected to pick up soon, with many Caribbean countries getting their first shipments in coming days,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – President Jovenel Moïse has asked the Organization of American States (OAS) for assistance to deal with the security crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean nation, days after the death of four police...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Premier David Burt says more than three-quarters of the current active COVID-19 cases in Bermuda are the UK variant. In a series of messages on social media, Burt urged residents to continue to be vigilant, saying:...
