GENEVA, CMC — A senior United Nations official has highlighted the importance of disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean amid the “existential threat” that climate change poses to the region. Head of the UN Office for...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning the region that as the rainy seasons approaches every effort must be made to intensify efforts to deal with mosquitoes, which it describes as...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — The British government has turned down a United Kingdom parliamentary committee proposal to give British residents in Bermuda the right to vote in elections in the island, the media reported on Monday. The plan had...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Five months after the BVI Tourist Board signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the US-based homestay provider, local property owners will now be required to pay a hotel accommodation tax. A...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — From the lush tropical garden of the Chilean ambassador's residence, Venezuelan opposition leader Freddy Guevara takes a much-anticipated call from a foreign diplomat and asks him to protect a fellow lawmaker...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are searching for two Jamaicans and a Venezuelan after a 37-year-old landlord was shot and killed in Arima on Thursday. Reports are that the landlord, Dominic Houllier Almerales, and his wife,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Thirteen men are now in police custody in connection with a plot to murder a state witness as he exited court on Wednesday. A spokesperson in a statement from the police said that strategic...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has called for Caribbean governments to invest in nurses to improve their availability, distribution and roles. The global body, in launching the “Strategic Directions...
NEW YORK, CMC – An immigration attorney based in Queens, New York has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with operating a scheme to submit fraudulent asylum applications for Caribbean and other...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a multi-million dollar special grant facility to support operations that help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean integrate migrants into local communities and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The United States is seeking the extradition of a former policeman wanted on drug-related charges. The 34-year-old former law enforcement officer, Shawn Neblett, appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty in the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 rattled Trinidad during the early hours of Monday, the Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies has reported. It...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government has defended the decision to grant a 15-year tax break and other concessions to Jamaica-based firm, Rainforest Seafood SVG Ltd, that has promised to invest EC$10...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities are investigating the cause of a helicopter crash that killed seven military officers while they were while heading to a state where President Nicolás Maduro was visiting troops. The...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A cruise ship that was scheduled to stop in Antigua and Barbuda has cancelled the planned visit after a case of measles was reported onboard. Freewinds, a United States based cruise ship, owned and operated by...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Queen’s Counsel Vincent Nelson was on Thursday granted bail in the sum of TT$100,000 on corruption conspiracy charges in connection with a series of financial transactions involving legal fees during...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 rattled Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago , the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies has reported. It said that there were no...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police were questioning former attorney general Anand Ramlogan after he was detained early Wednesday morning as he was about to board a flight at the Piarco International Airport to the United States en...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has issued a licence to the Jamaican conglomerate NCB Global Holdings Ltd to acquire control of the local company Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL). GHL is the parent company for...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The U.S. government has chastised Guyana for honouring the life of a former politician convicted of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. The U.S. said in a statement today...
NEW YORK, CMC – A New York judge has sentenced a 22-year-old Jamaican-American man to life imprisonment without parole after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering a woman in Queens three years ago. Queens Criminal Court...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Unpaid fines reached almost US$2.4 million last year after thousands of criminal and traffic warrants remained in force, according to a new report. The total owed has risen by an estimated US$300,000 over two years...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Bermuda’s struggling economy saw retail sales volume fall again in January, marking an 11th successive month of decline, according to latest figures. Apparel stores were the hardest hit sector with a...
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York State Office of Court Administration has halted the ability of US federal immigration officials to arrest Caribbean and other immigrants in state courthouses without warrants. Court officials...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging people in the Caribbean to get vaccinated to protect against preventable diseases. PAHO said that during Vaccination Week that will be observed from April 20-27, it...
