PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A 34-year-old man was sentenced to 14 days in prison after he pleaded guilty to misusing a cellular phone to send a threatening message to the Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, and his wife. Senior Magistrate...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC, The St Lucia government says it will be implementing a ban on the importation of Styrofoam and selected plastic food service containers as of June one. "Therefore, any Styrofoam and the selected plastic food...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Police are continuing their search for 30-plus-year-old Jamaica-born businessman, Yohan Chin, who was abducted from his home in south Trinidad on Sunday by men pretending to be cops. The police say they believe a US$6...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government said while it did not expect to have received a “large number” of illegal guns during the gun amnesty that ended last Saturday, the authorities had recovered at least eight...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of State says the Trump administration has taken action to end “Cuba’s influence on Venezuela”. “Today, the United States sanctioned four companies for operating in...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police shot and killed four people, including a Venezuelan national, in central Trinidad today. Police said they had gone to Edinburgh 500 in Chaguanas to execute a search warrant when they came...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC – Leader of the main Opposition Progressive National Party (PNP), Washington Misick, has implied that the Haitian Consulate has played a role in the illegal immigration of Haitians...
President Jovenel Moise Tuesday announced Jean Michel Lapin, who once served as a courier in the public administration, to be the new prime minister of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Lapin, who had been serving as acting...
MALE, Maldives, CMC – Former Jamaica prime minister Bruce Golding Tuesday said he remains confident that the general election will provide an opportunity for the leadership of the Maldives and the newly constituted People’s Majlis to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for regional governments to uphold the rights and protect unaccompanied, undocumented children fleeing the economic and political situation in...
HAVANA (AP) — More than 400 animal-lovers peacefully marched more than a mile through Havana today, shouting slogans and waving signs calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march wrote a small but...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rival political factions took to the streets across Venezuela yesterday in a mounting struggle for control of the crisis-wracked nation, where U.S.- backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó is attempting to oust...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling for equitable access to health care in the Caribbean, saying that millions of people in the world still lack access to health care and that many are forced to choose...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is funding a technical study on the suitability of using plantation white sugar as a substitute for refined sugar in the region’s manufacturing sector....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has announced a weeklong gun amnesty in a move aimed at curbing the rise in gun-related murders in the country. Attorney General Dale Marshall told Parliament Tuesday that the amnesty will...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC –The Suriname-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission says the intended sale of Scotiabank’s assets in nine Caribbean countries could have anti-competitive effects in at least three CARICOM...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Another day, another blackout. Power went out across Venezuela today, just as it did yesterday, and the day before that. But while some electricity had returned by afternoon, jittery Venezuelans weren't so...
LONDON, CMC – Former Jamaica prime minister, Bruce Golding, will lead a Commonwealth group to observe the Maldives parliamentary elections next month, the London –based Commonwealth Secretariat announced Tuesday. It said that Golding...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Minister of Social Development Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn on Tuesday told the Senate that 18 people have been charged for dishonestly for trying to obtain flood relief assistance. Among those charged are...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Bermuda legislators have unanimously rejected a United Kingdom parliamentary committee report that recommended British citizens should vote, gain citizenship and run for office in the island. Premier David Burt moved...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers say a meeting yesterday with Venezuelan Opposition Leader Juan Guaidó is a significant step to facilitating a “peaceful resolution...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the Caribbean as well as the rest of the Americas can reach the goal of ending tuberculosis (TB) in the next decade if countries are able to accelerate progress achieved so...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Agricultural research Development Institute (CARDI) is urging regional farmers to implement water conservation strategies to deal with the drought situation now confronting the Caribbean. CARDI said...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Government of Haiti on Thursday announced the appointment of an interim Prime Minister. The Ministry of Communication, in a message via social media on Thursday, said that Jean Michel Lapin was appointed...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 rocked the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts Nevis and Guadeloupe early Thursday. The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies St...
