BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has placed the United Kingdom in the category of “high risk” countries as Britain deals with a new wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19). “We have been closely following the developments in...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Monday said that his administration is prepared to cancel carnival celebrations next year as the twin-island republic, like all other Caribbean countries, deals with the impact of...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum says the transition between the wet and dry season is forecast to feature particularly high flooding, flash flood and landslide potential across Belize and other...
Published:Thursday | September 24, 2020 | 10:31 AM
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – There is mounting tension across Suriname following the devaluation of the Surinamese dollar by nearly 90 percent against the US dollar. Following the announcement on Tuesday, the price of fuel, which was...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical storm wind gusts and big waves battered Bermuda on Monday as Hurricane Teddy spun just east of the wealthy British territory, sparing it a direct hit. The hurricane lost strength in its approach and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says it will be monitoring persons who have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) and confined to home quarantine, amid reports that these persons have not...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) has called off the search for boaters who went missing during an incident last weekend. “After some four days of canvassing an expansive area of waters around Chub Cay...
Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2020 | 9:36 PM
ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Dominicans are on alert for a seismic activity after reports of emissions from the Soufriere area. The Office of Disaster Management (ODM), says the emissions are being investigated and the public will be updated....
Barbados is to grant legal status to same-sex couples, in a major breakthrough for gay rights lobbying in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region. The country's Governor General Dame Sandra Mason made the announcement this morning in a...
Barbados has announced its intention to become a republic and remove Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state by November next year. Governor-General Dame Sandra Mason, gave the update this morning at the opening of a new...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Paulette knocked down trees and power lines across Bermuda on Monday as it made a rare landfall in the wealthy British territory and strengthened into a Category 2 storm while still over the island....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Paulette made a rare landfall in Bermuda early Monday and strengthened into a Category 2 storm just hours after the wealthy British territory shuttered schools, government agencies, and air and sea ports...
Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2020 | 11:56 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Nana barrelled westward Wednesday just off the coast of Honduras on a collision course with the tiny nation of Belize. The US National Hurricane Center reported that Nana was located about 240 miles east...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Britain is providing £4.5 million to the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Special Development Fund to be used to support countries in the region with their coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery. The...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum is warning of high flooding and landslides as well as strong tropical cyclones as the region comes to grips with the peak of the 2020 wet season. In its latest...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –Health authorities say they have taken measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a child care centre in the capital after one of them tested positive for the virus. “I am aware of the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A 32-year-old Jamaican woman, who arrived in Barbados on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston, has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). This has pushed the island’s total to 152. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago has recorded an additional death related to COVID-19, bringing the number of fatalities to 11. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health said that the third death in recent days is an adult male who had...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Saturday announced a series of new measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, which in recent days has pushed the island into the category of community spread....
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says local scientists at the BioCubaFarma Research Centre are working towards developing a COVID-19 vaccine. On Twitter, the Cuban president wrote that some researchers and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Six defeated candidates in Monday’s general elections have filed requests for a recount of the votes cast, further delaying the official announcement of the elections by the Elections and Boundaries Commission....
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are due to meet on Monday to discuss arrangements surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In recent times, the regional countries which have reopened their borders...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – More than 1.1 million people are eligible to cast ballots today as Trinidad and Tobago elects a new government to administer the affairs of the oil-rich twin-island republic for the next five years. While 19...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it will impose stricter measures including legislative amendment to curb the contraband trade as the country experiences an increase in cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Health authorities...
HAVANA (AP) — With its airports closed to commercial flights and its economy tanking, Cuba has launched the first in a series of long-promised reforms meant to bolster the country’s struggling private sector. The island’s...
