BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Tourist arrivals to the Caribbean fell by 65.5 per cent in 2020, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), but it is forecasting a turnaround this year. In a statement released on Monday, the CTO said...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Premier Alden McLaughlin on Wednesday announced that the mandatory quarantine period across the territory will be reduced to 10 days starting March 22. McLaughlin made the announcement as Cayman...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, on Wednesday welcomed the expansion of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Etienne also said that PAHO is...
Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, said on Tuesday that 180 COVID-19 samples are being sent to the Icahn School of Medicine in New York for genomic sequencing to determine if there are any variants of the virus in the country. Anthony said...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Word Bank Tuesday suggested that there would be a “degree of recovery” in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries this year despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but warned also that it...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Monday disclosed that Trinidad and Tobago will get only a third of the doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines expected from the COVAX Facility this month. Deyalsingh...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana received 80,000 doses of the “Covishield” Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from India on Sunday. The vaccines arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport early this morning and were...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Authorities have announced a ban on tinted vehicle windows in a move to stop kidnappings. The ban, which the government said is temporary, although it did not state how long it would last, takes effect on Saturday...
HAVANA (AP) — Business was booming for a trendy little clothing shop called Clandestina in the heart of Old Havana, one of thousands of new private businesses that had arisen in what was once a near-wholly state-run socialist economy. A...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — A former US Marine found guilty of conspiracy to illegally export and smuggle firearms and controlled equipment from America to Haiti has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, federal prosecutors...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Caribbean is hunting for visitors and vaccines to jump-start the stalled economy in one of the world’s most tourism-dependent regions. Clear waters and warm sand attracted a record 31.5 million tourists...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A lawyer was released on US$50,000 bail on Monday after being charged in Magistrates’ Court with the murder of a woman who vanished 10 months ago. Kamal Worrell appeared in court in connection with the death of...
WASHINGTON, CMC – A new joint report by the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that Caribbean and other countries are cutting their education budgets due to the COVID-19...
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) — A prison director was among at least eight people killed on Thursday after several inmates tried to escape from a prison in Haiti’s capital, a police officer and witnesses said. The incident occurred in...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haiti’s president blamed powerful oligarchs on Monday for seven attempts in his four-year term to overthrow Haiti’s democratic system, most recently an attempted coup on February 7, but said he remains...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – After an outbreak that saw the number of COVID-19 cases surpassing 360, the island’s lone prison is now free of the virus, Minister of Home Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams, has announced. He said there were no...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Health officials have admitted that more than 30 people got their second COVID-19 vaccination too early and will have to get a third shot to ensure they are fully immunised. The Ministry of Health disclosed the...
FORT LAUDERDALE, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection agency says officers assigned to the Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport seized over eight pounds of cocaine...
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Agricultural workers who have long sought compensation for contamination from a pesticide banned in France but used in the country’s Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe have finally had a day in...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cops in special units within the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) will be equipped with body cameras Minister of National Security, Stuart Young, said on Monday. It was also announced that a full-scale...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse announced Sunday that police have arrested more than 20 people he accused of trying to kill him and overthrow his government, including a Supreme Court judge who has the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) says that the team studying and monitoring activity at the La Soufrière volcano will now permanently occupy the Belmont Observatory. In a statement late...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 was felt in the British Virgin Islands early Saturday. According to the British Virgin Islands Department of Disaster Management, the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Community spread of COVID-19 has been confirmed in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Minister of Health, St Clair “Jimmy” Prince, made the announcement to the media on Friday, a day after Parliament...
NASSAU, The Bahamas, CMC – Speaker of the House of Assembly Halson Moultrie resigned from the Free National Movement (FNM) on Thursday, citing a “divergent and untenable” relationship with the ruling party, but said he would...
