CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Broadband Internet customers in several Caribbean countries are experiencing problems on Monday after their providers informed of a possible fibre fault between Antigua and the French island of Guadeloupe on the...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Trinidad-based regional political scientist, Derek Ramsamooj, is threatening to go on a hunger strike to protest his detention by Suriname authorities investigating alleged suspected financial irregularities at...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations specialised agency, UNAIDS, is appealing to Caribbean and other countries to adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV/AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum is predicting that a “cool and less intense early dry season” will occur in the Caribbean. The dry season runs from about February to June. In...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is appealing to Caribbean and other nationals to avoid travel and large gathering during the holidays. On Wednesday, PAHO said that holiday season gatherings and travel...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Two United States citizens were on Wednesday each fined EC$5,000 after they were found guilty of breaching the coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations. A statement from the Royal Grenada Police Force said that Dr...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC - The St Lucia government has expressed concern over reports of truancy among local farm workers in Canada, warning that the actions of a few could put the programme in jeopardy. “Hired seasonal farm workers in Canada...
WASHINGTON, Nov 25, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued new guidance on policies to protect populations in vulnerable situation in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19). PAHO experts said that measures to control...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A 10-year-old girl has died from dengue fever, the seventh person to have fallen victim to the mosquito-borne illness. The Ministry of Health, in a statement on Monday, said that the number of confirmed cases in...
HAVANA (AP) — Western Union closed its 407 locations across Cuba on Monday, a sanctions-driven move that will leave thousands bereft of remittances on an island that depends heavily on them — or force them to use less reliable ways to...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –Prime Minister of Belize, John Briceno, has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement late Monday, the Office of the Prime Minister said that the newly appointed Briceno was recently swabbed for the virus....
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A High Court judge has conceded that she has no jurisdiction to order the return of several Venezuelans, including children, after they were deported on Sunday. Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams said Monday it was...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The police have charged the 35-year-old former boyfriend of a Jamaican woman with her death after she had her throat slashed on a street in the capital last weekend. Police say that Shawn Mussington, who had...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – A new senior counsel from Jamaica has been welcomed to a Commission of Inquiry into historic land grabs in Bermuda following the resignation last month of a top Queen’s Counsel from Canada. Norma Wade-Miller,...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda Government says China is making available US$1 billion that will be used for loans to Latin America and the Caribbean to purchase vaccines to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government Wednesday signalled its intention to introduce a tourism levy that it said will help finance the marketing and development of the industry. The government said it has been holding extensive...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Australia-based mining company Alicanto Minerals says it has made its first-ever gold find and that it has discovered a maiden resource of 500,000 ounces of gold at its Arakaka gold mine that is located in Region...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – President Chandrikapersad Santokhi says his government will not interfere in the judicial process after former vice president Ashwin Adhin was arrested as part of an investigation into the alleged destruction of...
A 35-year-old man has been taken into police custody in Antigua and Barbuda over the stabbing death of a Jamaican woman. She has been identified as 45-year-old Simone Whyte. The police report that the alleged incident happened about 8:30 p.m. on...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says the island will have to “paddle its own canoe” regarding the estimated EC$160 million needed to finance the redevelopment of infrastructure damaged by heavy...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The main opposition People’s United Party (PUP) romped home to a convincing victory in Wednesday’s general election and urged the entire nation to come together to build a “better Belize” in the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The governing Barbados Labour Party (BLP) candidate, Toni Moore, won a by-election on Tuesday for the vacant seat in the House of Assembly to represent the rural St George North electoral district. Moore, the...
Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2020 | 10:07 AM
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Voters in Belize go to the polls today to elect a new government with both the ruling United Democratic Party (UDP) and the main opposition People’s United Party (PUP) confident of being victorious. Polling...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping Monday said that it is looking forward to working with the new administration in the United States, recalling that president-elect Joe Biden “has been a...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister Dean Barrow has been tested for the coronavirus (COVID-19) and has gone into self-quarantine pending the results, according to an official statement. It said that Barrow, who is not contesting the...
