CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela defused a potential showdown with the United States, suspending a demand that U.S. diplomats leave the country as Washington called on the world to "pick a side" in the South American nation's...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will be joining a delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in New York today ahead of a meeting tomorrow with United Nations Secretary...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Haitian government has denied claims of an increase in the price of petroleum products as taxi drivers staged a protest, blocking streets, over the alleged scarcity of the products. Economy and Finance...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is urging the public “to resist the urge to speculate” as it announced an investigation into the adverse reaction a particular medication has had on a number of...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government says legislation which seeks to deal with asylum requests from foreign nationals has been prepared even as Venezuelan nationals staged a protest over what they...
PORT OF Spain, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended his government’s decision to abstain from an Organization of American States (OAS) vote not to recognise the Nicolas Maduro government in Venezuela. He said...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has called for health officials across the region to prepare for the possibility of a severe outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever. In a statement Thursday,...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The opposition Pitit Dessalin party says it plans to stage a series of activities, including street demonstrations, to protest Haiti’s decision to support an Organization of American States (OAS) resolution...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A two-day conference aimed at examining and redefining violence prevention solutions as it relates to youth in the Caribbean began in Guyana on Tuesday with the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – St Lucia recorded a significant decline in suicides in 2018 as compared to the previous year and health authorities have urged people with “suicidal thoughts” to make use of the various initiatives...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 rattled parts of the capital late on Sunday night, but there were no reports of damage or injury. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at of the St Augustine...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The new head of Venezuela's increasingly defiant congress was pulled from his vehicle and briefly detained by police today, a day after the U.S. backed him assuming the presidency as a way out of the country'...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) yesterday described as “false news” reports being circulated on social media that Commissioner of Prisons Gerard Wilson had been killed....
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Friday said it would introduce new legislation to treat with a “new discernible anti-social criminal behaviour” in the society where homeowners and landowners are...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology says chances of drought and recurrent dry spells have increased except in the Bahamas and Cuba during the first three months of this year....
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada has been put on alert amid fears of a dengue outbreak after one Caribbean country reported an upsurge in cases at the start of the year. “We are all keeping a close eye on the development of...
ST. PETERSBURG, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of the Cutter Resolute returned to its homeport in St Petersburg, Florida following a 59-day patrol of the Caribbean Sea in which crew members deterred illegal...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 rattled Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake, which occurred at 10:33 a.m local time was the second tremor to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The London-based international human rights organisation Amnesty International says while it welcomes a “significant reduction” in the application of the use of the death penalty in the English-speaking...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The David Granger-led administration says it will be putting plans in place to foil plans by the opposition Peoples Progressive Party to disrupt Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly. “The...
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A senior official of the Methodist Church has expressed concern at what he termed 'money making' churches that have appeared in St Lucia virtually overnight. “I am very concerned. Nowadays we are...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A former scientific analyst at the United States-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Dr Arlene Laing has been appointed Coordinating Director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will await a ruling by the Speaker of Parliament Dr Barton Scotland regarding the successful motion of no confidence filed by the opposition earlier this month, even as it...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Incoming chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister of St Kitts Nevis Dr Timothy Harris, says 2019 will be the year to combat chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across the...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The main opposition United Workers Party is calling for the Dominica government to end the practice of requiring Haitians to pay a US$400 bond to the Immigration Department on arrival in the country. In a statement,...
