PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Stuart Young Tuesday described as “carefully orchestrated and pre-planned”, the protests in the eastern part of the capital following the shooting deaths of three people by...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Monday announced the launch of the second round of the Caribbean coronavirus (COVID-19) Food Security and Livelihoods Survey. It said following the first...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has recorded 70 coronavirus (COVID-19) cases over the past 24 hours, the first time the country has recorded less than 100 new cases for nearly a month. The figures released by the Ministry of Public...
GENEVA, CMC – The World Meteorological Office (WMO) Friday said the massive dust storm currently blanketing many parts of the Caribbean is posing a significant threat to regional health. It is also highlighting the importance of having...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Thursday said it has given no indication as to whether it has jurisdiction to hear an appeal filed by the two senior members of the main opposition People...
WASHINGTON, Jun 24, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is warning Caribbean countries to do more to deal with mosquito-borne diseases during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic after indicating that more than 1.6...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has recorded a loss of more than US$14 million in just over a one-month period as a result of the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Allyson West...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Court of Appeal Monday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case regarding the election of a president as Guyana still awaits the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and general elections....
A photojournalist with Nation News in Barbados, who was responding to a report of a murder at Bishop’s Court Hill, St Michael, was attacked and killed today. The man, whose identity is being withheld, arrived ahead of the police....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the United States with a size and concentration that experts say hasn’t been seen in half a century. Air quality across most of the...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC –Haiti has passed 5,200 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) during the past three months as the country registered 134 new cases over the past 24 hours. The Ministry of Public Health, in its daily bulletin, said...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Court of Appeal will meet on Saturday to hear arguments by lawyers in the matter in which a private citizen is seeking a series of orders to stop the Guyana Elections Commission from moving ahead with...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - A senior official of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic on Thursday dismissed as “a nuisance-value litigation” an injunction being sought by a citizen aimed at preventing the Guyana...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is working towards introducing a national digital identification, which could be rolled out over the next six months. Prime Minister Mia Mottley made the disclosure on Wednesday as she spoke...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada has recorded more than a 1,000 small earthquakes at the underwater volcano, Kick ‘Em Jenny, last week and this has caused the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) to issue an advisory...
HAMILTON, Bermuda CMC – Bermuda is to get its first female and first black Governor later this year. This was officially announced on Friday. Government House said Rena Lalgie, who is married with two children, will succeed John Rankin in...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – A request for a “Black Lives Matter” rally that was to be held on Friday has been turned down by the police. St Lucia’s acting Police Commissioner, Milton Desir, in a letter on Wednesday, informed...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial for a man found guilty of murdering a 30-year-old Jamaican man. Kiari Tucker was sent to prison last July for at least 25 years for killing...
Preliminary data published by Guyana’s elections commission shows that opposition candidate Irfaan Ali has won a recount of votes in March’s presidential election following accusations the tally was manipulated, Reuters is...
MIAMI, Jun 8, CMC – The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is calling for one of the world’s largest leisure, travel, and tourism companies, TUI Group (Touristik Union International), to reimburse Caribbean hotels and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Monday urged teachers to stay away from school in protest at the Ministry of Education’s decision to conduct classes and examinations during the coronavirus (COVID-19)...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority says airlines operating in the country along with airport staff and pilots will soon be required to comply with COVID-19 regulations, as the regulatory body moves forward with...
Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris Saturday said that it appears that his coalition Team Unity administration will be returned to power with a “resounding victory” after the three-party team won eight of the nine seats declared...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network Friday said that as the region enters the wet season, it is expected that rainfall will increase and ease the drought situation in several...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, says a high-ranking United States diplomat in the region has reportedly threatened to withhold assistance to the Antigua & Barbuda Defence Force...
