PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – At least one person was killed and five others are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in the commune of Cabaret in Haiti, the Directorate of Civil Protection has said. It said that the torrential rains were...
MIAMI, CMC – Jamaicans were among several Caribbean nationals who were apprehended by the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency during an attempted migrant smuggling exercise Pompano Beach on Thursday. CBP said its agents...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The National Police of Haiti is reporting that s at least 15 underage girls were raped over a two-month period that ended on Tuesday. The announcement by the police comes after more than 1,000 Haitians took to the...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC- The St Kitts-Nevis government has denied paying money to rival gangs and criminals in a bid to ensure peace and stability in the twin-island Federation. “We have this calm in the society and persons should be...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A 26-year-old Ecuadorian chef, who admitted that he had come to Guyana in the hope of selling fake United States visas, has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit forgery and cocaine...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The government of Cuba has announced plans to legalise private Wi-Fi networks and the importation of equipment, thereby eliminating one of the world’s tightest restrictions on Internet use. The measure announced by...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday ruled that citizens of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) “have important rights but to exercise these rights clear documentary...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Electoral Office of Dominica Tuesday said it does not “publish, sell or release for any reason” digital copies of the Register of Electors after it said it had become aware that there is in circulation...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority Tuesday announced it would be launching its mobile number portability throughout the sub-region on Monday. The agency’s chairman and Dominica’s Information...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government is defending its position regarding the sale of Scotiabank operations even as it announced that all the Canadian banks operating in the country have expressed a desire to...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government has called for the union representing teachers to provide proof regarding the prevalence of marijuana use in schools. Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin described as “...
PHILLIPSBURG, St Maarten, CMC – The dry conditions affecting the Caribbean over the last few months are expected to continue into September for most of the region, forecasters said on Thursday. “For the June to August...
BRUSSELS, CMC – The European Union says a new accord to replace the Cotonou Agreement that currently governs its relationship with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group is “taking shape”. The existing agreement is due to...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The government has granted 93 Venezuelans who were detained by the police on Wednesday permission to stay in the twin-island republic until the end of July. The Venezuelan men, women, and children...
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, United States Virgin Islands, CMC – A judge of the Superior Court of the United States Virgin Islands has dismissed an appeal by the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, against a US$1.55 million award to a former employee...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — National Security Minister Wayne Caines has granted Jamaican reggae star, Buju Banton, permission to perform in Bermuda, despite a well-publicised drugs conviction in the United States. Caines said he had...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are searching for two men who shot and killed a 75-year-old doctor as he left his home for his office in Port of Spain early Wednesday. Police said that Dr Vin Sein Chiang had left his home in Arima...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Andrea, the first named storm of the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane season that beings on June 1, was downgraded to a depression on Tuesday. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre said that the subtropical...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Magistrates have begun a weeklong strike over demands for the payment of arrears in salaries, improved working conditions and a stop to any form of interference by the Executive in the Judiciary. There have been...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Ten days before the official start of the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane season, subtropical storm Andrea, the first named storm of the season, is expected to remain southwest and south of Bermuda during the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police Commissioner Gary Griffith Monday brushed aside comments made on social media by two escape prisoners warning those harbouring them that they too face prosecution. Olatungi Denbow and Michael Findley, who...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it remains optimistic that an agreement could reached regarding the sale of Scotiabank to a consortium of local stakeholders. Information Minister Melford Nicholas...
NEW YORK, CMC – A judge on Friday sentenced a Brooklyn youth to 17 1/3 years in jail for killing a 22-year-old college student just before the Caribbean J’Ouvert festival in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn began in 2016....
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government is maintaining its position regarding the sale of Scotiabank on the island, even as it acknowledged being “informed’ of the present situation. A...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Law enforcement authorities are searching for eight prisoners, including seven on murder charges, who escaped from the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca on Tuesday night. “They are notorious and they could...
