GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Government of Guyana on Thursday announced the termination of an agreement with Taiwan to establish an investment office in the country. The announcement was made less than a day after Taiwan said that it had an...
NEW YORK, CMC – A 52-year-old Canadian man who was extradited from Jamaica to the United States has been charged for being involved in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. Martin Hogan, who appeared in court earlier this week before US...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has established a trade office in the South American country of Guyana, a diplomatic win for the island that has continued to lose allies in an aggressive poaching campaign from China in recent years. China’...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne warned that the health, social and economic effects of COVID-19 are disproportionately impacting women and called for heightened attention to the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Leader of the Opposition Godwin Friday has called for a 28-day ban on flights into the country and for an end to at-home isolation for local COVID-19 patients. In his contribution to the budget debate in the...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Another State of Emergency that includes a 10-hour nightly curfew and a reduction in the hours that businesses are allowed to operate, takes effect in St Lucia on Wednesday as the country grapples with another wave...
WASHINGTON, CMC– The United States Customs and Border Protection agency said on Monday that its Air and Marine Operations (AMO) National Air Security Operations Center (NASOC) P-3 crew worked with US federal and international partners to...
HAVANA - Cuban authorities say they will tighten measures against the spread of COVID-19 to require tourists and other visitors to isolate at their own expense for several days until tests for the new coronavirus come out negative. The...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The British Virgin Islands has implemented a ban on flights from Brazil and South Africa in the wake of reports of new strains of COVID-19 emerging in both countries. The announcement was made by Health...
BRIDGETOWN: Barbados will go back into lockdown for a two-week period that will include an 11-hour nightly curfew in an attempt to bring the COVID-19 outbreak under control, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced Tuesday night. She also confirmed...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Flying rocks. Burning tires. Acrid smoke. Deadly gunfire. Haiti braced for a fresh round of widespread protests starting Friday, with opposition leaders demanding that President Jovenel Moïse step down next...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been offered access to approved COVID-19 vaccines from a shipment recently secured by the African Union. Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced Thursday that...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A police raid on a media house in March last year has been deemed unconstitutional by the court. Justice Frank Seepersad held on Wednesday that the two search warrants obtained by the police for the Trinidad...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – In a show of leading by example, Premier David Burt and Opposition Leader Cole Simons took the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. They were among the first residents to receive the jab and they both urged the population to...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Two scientists from the Seismic Research Centre, Thomas Christopher and Adam Stinton, who are based at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, will this week join the team from the centre that has been monitoring the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados Government has announced that it will be offering refunds to tourists and visiting Barbadians who have been affected by delays in receiving their second COVID-19 test results. Minister of Tourism...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – With most of the Caribbean receiving normal to above normal rainfall over the second half of the 2020 wet season, there are no concerns that the region will face any drought up to the end of the first quarter of...
Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin has urged citizens to “do our duty” and take the COVID-19 vaccine to help the islands return to normalcy. After receiving his jab Thursday morning, McLaughlin addressed the country in a televised...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The government of Haiti has embarked on a digital programme that has been designed to give broadband access to 2.7 million people across the country over the next five years. The programme is one that...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Chairman of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Keith Rowley, says the regional body is “deeply saddened and concerned" at the unprecedented scenes that unfolded at the Capitol Building in...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC -The United Nation’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-partner Trust Funds has approved a grant of just over US$350,000 to the British Virgin Islands (BVI). In making the announcement, Premier Andrew...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Bermuda’s death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 11 as Health Minister Kim Wilson announced that 9,000 doses of the vaccine would arrive on the island on Friday with vaccination to start for healthcare and essential...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Airlines has, with immediate effect, suspended its commercial service to Havana, Cuba until further notice. In a statement on Tuesday, the carrier said the decision followed correspondence from the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Trump administration has added a Cuban bank to its “Cuba Restricted List”, saying that the administration is removing the “Cuban military’s grip” from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean country...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Premier Andrew Fahie has urged the owners of motorcycles across the territory to equip them with silencers. Speaking during a recent sitting in the House of Assembly, Fahie said if this is not done,...
