BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize Tax Service Department (BTSD) is recommending that its deputy director, Reynaldo Verde, be placed on “immediate interdiction” pending the outcome of his legal battles in the United States...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of protesters seeking to oust President Jovenel Moise attacked businesses and government buildings across Haiti Friday, creating chaos on the streets after a weeks-long shutdown of vital services that...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As the Bahamas strives to recover from Hurricane Dorian, the prime minister is pleading with the international community to tackle climate change — and encouraging travellers to visit to help the island nation...
Published:Thursday | September 26, 2019 | 10:01 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyanese go to the polls on March 2 next year to elect a new government, more than a year after the main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic had successfully tabled a motion of no confidence in the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Tropical Storm Karen was moving across the Eastern Caribbean Sea on Monday after drenching several Caribbean islands with heavy rainfall, strong winds and forcing the closure of schools in Trinidad and Tobago....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Firefighters recovered the bodies of two persons following a fire early today, that destroyed a Chinese supermarket and several other businesses here. The police report that the identities of the two persons are...
MIAMI (AP) — The 11th named storm of the hurricane season has developed in the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Karen formed early today near the Windward Islands. Maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph)....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Bar Association of Guyana has condemned what it called the failure by the government to hold General and Regional Elections within the period mandated by the Constitution following the passage of a no-confidence...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 1:59 PM
RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (AP) — More than 200 Bahamians whose houses were destroyed by Hurricane Dorian arrived Wednesday in Florida on a cruise ship. It was the second mass arrival for the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line. More than 850...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 10:29 AM
MIAMI (AP) — Bermuda’s government called up troops and urged people on the British Atlantic island to make final preparations for an expected close brush Wednesday with Hurricane Humberto, a powerful Category 3 storm. Authorities...
MIAMI (AP) — Officials in Bermuda say schools, public transportation, and government offices will close early ahead of the likely arrival of Hurricane Humberto as a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening. National Security Minister Wayne Caines...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -Forecasters have warned Bermuda that strengthening Tropical Storm Humberto is a potential threat to the island after it moved to the north of the Bahamas. As of 12 noon today, the storm, which is due to reach hurricane...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has confirmed its commitment to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries on strategies to prevent and reduce crime. During the Citizen Security Week 2019 that...
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tropical Storm Humberto moved away from the Bahamas yesterday after dumping rain on parts of the archipelago's northwest region that were already hammered by Hurricane Dorian two weeks ago. Humberto...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it will not accept a request for a 10 year monopoly from a company that is interested in growing marijuana for sacramental and recreational purposes. A statement issued...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas, hard hit by a Category 5 hurricane at the start of the month that killed at least 50 people, was on Friday bracing for the passage of a new tropical disturbance that was moving north westward over the...
LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted Thursday that its forecast of food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets after a no-deal Brexit is an avoidable worst-case scenario, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2019 | 12:56 PM
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — The Bahamas government said Wednesday there are 2,500 people on its list of those missing after Hurricane Dorian. But the names have yet to be checked against the rosters of people evacuated from the devastated...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2019 | 10:23 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 rattled Trinidad Tuesday night, the second quake to have rocked the island within a 24 hour period. The Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 today rocked Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. There were no reports of injuries or damage, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies said. The centre said that the quake,...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it has suspended the crackdown on illegal migrants in the Abacos and Grand Bahama as the death toll from the passage of Hurricane Dorian a week ago climbed to 44. Minister of Financial...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin says he will use this weekend’s meeting of the Council of Legal Education in Jamaica to continue making the case for Antigua and Barbuda to establish a law school....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments were on Tuesday preparing to provide assistance to The Bahamas as a near stationary Hurricane Dorian is expected to begin moving away from the archipelago even while...
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas on Monday, pummelling the islands with so much wind and water that authorities urged people to find floatation devices and grab hammers to break out of...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Two years after Dominica received assistance from The Bahamas after the island was battered by a dangerous Hurricane Maria, Roseau announced Monday that it would be reciprocating as Nassau battles one of its worst...
