GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A 40-year old rice farmer, from West Bank Demerara, has confessed to killing a teenager and burying his body in a shallow grave. The police report that Jairam Seiupersaud admitted that on the night of October 17...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Health authorities are reporting a decline in the number of dengue fever cases after the figure had has risen to more than 2,700 cases last month. While the Director of Health Services Dr Marvin Manzanero did not...
Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced an extension of the Exigency Order issued in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian that slammed into the island chain over a month ago. According to Minnis, the order has been extended to December 31....
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Premier David Burt has sparked a political row after announcing plans to scrap next month’s traditional Throne Speech. Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier has accused him of a “lack of good leadership...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) says, as part of its efforts to combat financial corruption and money laundering, persons now depositing funds into financial institutions achieved through the...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Cayman Islands magistrate Valdis Foldats Monday dismissed a case against one of Bermuda’s leading magistrates following a car crash earlier this year. Foldats, drafted in to oversee the case, exonerated Khamisi...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Friday advised the police to appeal a case in which a magistrate ordered a Church elder to pay a five-year-old EC$600 after pleading guilty to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has reached an agreement ‘in principle’ with external creditors that Prime Minister Mia Mottley said would help the country “put behind us the chapter of the excessive debt creation and...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada has become the first Caribbean country to sign the vesting order facilitating the sale of several Scotiabank branches in the Caribbean to the Trinidad-based Republic Bank Financial Holdings Limited....
GENEVA, CMC – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for the Bahamas to refrain from deporting Haitians after Nassau earlier this month deported more than 100 Haitians less than two weeks after Prime...
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is urging Haitian authorities to investigate and bring to justice the killers of journalist Néhémie Joseph. Joseph is the second journalist to be murdered in the Caribbean territory since...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — President Jovenel Moïse broke his silence Tuesday and said it would be irresponsible for him to resign amid Haiti’s unrest, which has entered a fifth week of deadly protests that have paralysed the...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has defended its decision to clear shantytowns in Abaco and to compulsorily acquire lands that had been reduced to debris by Hurricane Dorian. Dorian swept through the archipelago on...
GEORGEOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Monday said it is “deeply concerned” over the protracted political crisis in Haiti where opposition parties have been staging street demonstrations calling for the...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it continues to “enjoy” good relations with both the United States and China as it sought to distance one of its diplomats from a report that quoted him as saying that Beijing...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A policeman who was found guilty of grievous sexual assault, rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault and false imprisonment was on Friday sentenced to 43 years in prison. It’s reported that...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government Friday said it would be guaranteeing loans to micro, small and medium sized (MSME) enterprises affected by Hurricane Dorian that slammed into the country last month, killing at least 60 people and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police Commissioner Gary Griffith Wednesday said law enforcement authorities have “cracked what is the biggest situations pertaining to human trafficking in this country” after six people have been...
BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – Premier Donaldson Romeo has announced Monday, November 18 as the date for fresh general elections in Montserrat. Speaking on a radio programme Romeo said that he has met with the Acting Governor Mrs Lyndell Simpson...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 rattled three Caribbean islands early Monday, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine campus...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched an emergency project to curb major plant losses threatened by a fungal disease as part of a renewed effort to help protect banana in Latin...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology said today that while there is less concern over short term drought, there remains much concern over long term dry conditions as the end of the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti’s president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure for him to leave office. Protesters said...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will deport undocumented migrants who survived the passage of Hurricane Dorian on September one and are now living in shelters. Immigration Minister Elsworth Johnson says the shelters will...
BEIJING, China, CMC – China has no interest in imposing its development model on other nations, like those in the Caribbean, for which it provides aid but it does believe it can offer lessons for those countries, according to a Ministry of...
