GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A policy that required newly hired public servants to work for three months before being paid, is now a thing of the past. This was disclosed on Thursday by Public Service Minister, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley,...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Governor John Rankin has granted a posthumous pardon to an American pastor and journalist who was into imprisoned more than a century ago after he wrote about the unfair treatment of Jamaican workers in Bermuda...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Haitian government has announced plans for a major vaccination programme for toddlers against measles, rubella and poliomyelitis. The Ministry of Public Health said that the vaccination programme will be held...
MIAMI, July 2019, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has detained more than 50 migrants from Haiti and Cuba during the Fourth of July holiday weekend from two separate interdictions in the Caribbean Sea. The US Coast Guard said that...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government Tuesday acknowledged that some former legislators were still using state-funded mobile phones after reports surfaced of an EC$70,000 bill. “It seems like there is some systematic...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados National Terminal Company Limited says it is now getting its supply of oil from Petrojam in Jamaica following the closure last November of the state-owned PETROTRIN oil refinery in...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada says it has teamed up with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to export soursop to the United States and is now in the process of putting together a working group of stakeholders to be the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A magistrate has warned Barbadians that the internet was not developed for them to issue death threats to others as he slapped a $3,500 fine on a 30-year-old man. Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch issued the...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has received “positive” feedback to a proposal that would allow it to own at least 40 per cent of the Scotiabank branch, which is being sold as part of...
DEL RIO, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says officers assigned to the Del Rio Sector in Texas have arrested over 1,000 Haitian nationals in less than one month. “Our agents are seeing...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has agreed to send a prime ministerial delegation to Haiti where opposition forces are seeking to remove President Jovenel Moise from office over allegations of embezzlement. “...
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Police in the Bahamas worked Friday to identify the bodies of seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash after being told that billionaire coal tycoon and Republican donor Chris Cline was among those on board. Bahamas...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Representatives of the regional private sector and labour movement Thursday held “positive” discussions with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on efforts to push forward the CARICOM Single...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Five were killed and three people are missing following heavy rains that lashed the capital on Wednesday. According to Haiti’s Directorate for Civil Protection, three people were found dead in the city...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Dr Timothy Harris, Wednesday praised the regional integration grouping for its stance on the economic and political situation in Venezuela, saying it must remain an...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders began their annual summit in St Lucia Wednesday with the incoming chairman Allen Chastanet calling for a critical analysis of the 15-member regional grouping. Chastanet, the host...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Stuart Young says just under 150 Venezuelans have been incarcerated in the twin-island republic since last month. Young made the revelation in Senate on Tuesday in response to a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A proposal to remove custodial sentences for persons found in possession of small amounts of marijuana has been approved by Cabinet. The government, in an announcement on Tuesday, said Cabinet approval was made...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A fire at an apartment complex in the town of Curepe has left 14 persons, including a Jamaican and three Cubans, homeless. The Trinidad Guardian reports that investigations are still being carried out to...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Tafawa Pierre, says Grenadians have been fleeced out of millions of dollars as a result of online financial scams. Pierre is urging nationals to be...
TOKYO, CMC – A new World Bank report says that people in developing countries, including the Caribbean, spend half a trillion dollars annually – over US$80 per person – out of their own pockets to access health services. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has denied suggestions that the state-owned oil refinery at PETROTRIN would be leased to a foreign company. The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries said statements made by...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced a 43-year-old man to a two-year suspended prison term after he pleaded guilty to driving his vehicle into a public meeting of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in 2014...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology Friday said that drought conditions in the Caribbean will continue in several countries for the July to September this year. In its latest...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Independent filmmakers in Cuba will soon be allowed to legally produce their own movies. This is according to a decree published on Thursday by the government stating that as of August 23 a new law will “approve the...
