BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne is leading a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) delegation to the United States participating in a roundtable discussion on de-risking and correspondent banking. The...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadians were on Tuesday facing the prospect of another day without electricity even as the lone electricity company, the Barbados Light and Power Company (BL&P), said it was working to restore full...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Monday said the life expectancy for men in the Caribbean is 5.8 years below that of women, partly because societal expectations contribute to risk-seeking behaviours. The new...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Civil Protection Directorate says it is awaiting “the complete evaluation” of a fire by the authorities that on Sunday gutted the building housing the Departmental Electoral Office and the National...
SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has downwardly revised its projections for growth in the region in 2019, forecasting an average expansion of 0.1 percent. Meanwhile, in...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says dengue in the Americas, including the Caribbean, has reached the highest number of cases recorded to date. In its new epidemiological update, PAHO said Wednesday that there...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have agreed to collectively approach the region’s telecommunications providers to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology says below normal rainfall continued in parts of the region already with concerns over drought, including over Belize and Barbados. “There...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Guyana, diverted to Nassau, Bahamas last night due to a mechanical issue with one of its engines. In a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Effective January 1, 2020, the ban on single-use, petroleum-based plastic packaging, containers and utensils will be implemented. According to the Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy, Kirk...
NEW YORK, CMC – The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has announced a major initiative that could lead to the reduction or removal of criminal convictions for Caribbean and other immigrants who entered into plea agreements and have...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominicans go to the polls on December 6 to elect a new government after Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Tuesday night announced that he had advised President Charles Savarin to dissolve the Parliament on Wednesday in...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute on Monday announced a temporary restriction on the importation of romaine lettuce from the United States. The agency said the move comes on the heels of an...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The government of The Bahamas will be establishing an independent and non-political body to help fund housing and building repairs for Abaco and Grand Bahama residents impacted by Hurricane Dorian. Speaking during a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Republic Financial Holdings Limited has now closed its acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations. The bank said in a statement on Friday that, following receipt of approval from the Central Bank of Trinidad and...
MONTREAL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint, Michigan, according to an...
EVANSTON, CMC – A broad coalition of groups in the Haitian Diaspora wants an urgent resolution of the current political crisis in the French-speaking Caribbean country, saying that Haiti has “crumbled under the weight of this acute...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The largest-ever corruption trial in the Cayman Islands ended on Thursday with the jury delivering three guilty verdicts. The case of fraud, breach of trust and bribery involved a network of corruption among...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The Department of Health and Wellness says it has received reports of cases of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease from some of the schools across the island. According to a government statement on Thursday, the viral...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced a new tax relief policy for Abaco, the Cays, and Grand Bahama, until June 2020, as part of the Government’s effort to stimulate the economies of areas...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Elections Commission says it has given an estimated 25,000 voters a three-week deadline to collect their national identification cards or risk being removed from the voters' list ahead of the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is slowing down and that the region is expected to record a 0.2 per cent growth this year. The Washington-based financial institution...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Two months after Hurricane Dorian swept through the Bahamas, the National Emergency Management Agency has put the official death toll at 67. The agency’s Director Captain Stephen Russell told reporters that as the...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A Haitian diplomat is appealing to the Bahamas government not to imprison nationals from his country who have been convicted of minor immigration offences even as Nassau continued the programme of deporting illegal...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Caymanians are being encouraged to exercise their right to vote in referendum scheduled for December 19 on the controversial cruise port project. Governor Martyn Roper, who says the poll will be a “...
