BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a 50-year-old Dominican Republic national who was apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) has been sentenced to two and a half years in...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC - Police in Suriname have detained three foreign nationals as they continue their investigations into a credit card fraud scheme. The Police Public Relations Office said that the third suspect was arrested late last week...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – As investigations into the discovery of 4.4 tonnes of cocaine buried near an illegal airstrip in Guyana widens, investigators from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit are examining the alleged involvement of police...
Barbados has been elected to the leadership of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). The country's Minister of Tourism, Ian Gooding-Edghill, assumed the role this morning during the official opening ceremony of the 2024 State of the Tourism...
Published:Wednesday | September 4, 2024 | 11:24 AM
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government Wednesday said that a pilot programme geared towards the teaching of the indigenous Kwéyòl language or Creole in schools will begin in 15 institutions during the 2024/25 academic...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Investigators with Haiti's anti-corruption agency donned caps and face masks on Tuesday as they stood behind boxes of evidence that accuse high-ranking government officials of crimes ranging from illicit...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Three brothers were killed during a vehicular accident on Monday, the police in the Bahamas have confirmed. They said that Philip McCarron Christie, 24, Philip D'Caprio Christie, 23, and D'Angelo Christie, 20,...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts Education Minister Dr Geoffrey Hanley says the recently introduced Hair Guidelines policy to curb discrimination in schools in the twin-island federation must be adhered to. “To be clear, the Hair...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) says cooling temperatures in the equatorial Pacific may possibly result in a progressive transition to La Niña while near record warm...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in the Dominican Republic has agreed to review a challenge to laws dating from the last century that criminalise gay sex involving members of the army and police force. It's the first...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on Friday said that it continued to facilitate removal flights of single adults and family units to Cuba and Jamaica. ICE said that those removal flights...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC - International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has responded to Dominican Vice President Raquel Peña's denial of racist immigration policies in the country, expressing...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Sir Shridath 'Sonny' Ramphal, the former Guyana government minister and Commonwealth secretary general, died Friday, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 95 years old. According to the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Department of Homeland Security says it will restart the issuance of Advance Travel Authorizations (ATAs) for the Humanitarian Parole Programme to Haiti, which had been temporarily suspended several weeks earlier over...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government has welcomed the decision of the Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT 2020, to include the island among its new routes as the inaugural flight to Douglas Charles airport, north of...
The Cabinet in Antigua has declared Thursday, September 12 as a day of prayer for the nation. The Ecclesiastical Commission, a body representing various religious denominations in Antigua and Barbuda, has been tasked with organising the day's...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says that a national of the Dominican Republic has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a deadly human smuggling conspiracy in Puerto Rico, resulting in a child's death....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian forces working with police sent from Kenya have launched a joint operation to oust criminal gangs from one of the roughest neighbourhoods of Haiti's capital, Prime Minister Garry Conille said Wednesday...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A few weeks after he resigned as the minister of the cabinet office, Vance Campbell, has joined the main opposition One Bermuda Alliance (OBA). Campbell was among two government ministers, including attorney general...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominican government has presented the country's first ever Olympic gold medallist, Thea Lafond-Gadson, with the country's highest national award, the Dominica Award of Honour, following her exploits at the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island's coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonisation in a move that many are celebrating....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Guyana government has tabled legislation intended to allow common-law spouses to access their deceased partner’s estate. Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, said the Deceased Persons...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The three-member CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) has ended a six-day visit to Haiti, warning that there needs to be a return to the ethos of the March 11 agreement in Jamaica. A statement issued by the EPG...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Tuesday announced that it had imposed sanctions against former Haitian president Michel Martelly for trafficking “dangerous drugs” destined for the United States. Martelly, who served as head...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Monday said it has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) and is now creating the environment for academic integrity and safeguarding against “...
