LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP): Bolivia’s long-serving socialist former leader, Evo Morales, reappeared Thursday in his political stronghold of the tropics after almost seven weeks of unexplained absence, endorsing candidates for upcoming regional elections...
WASHINGTON (AP): The natural El Niño cycle, which warps weather worldwide, is both adding to and shaped by a warming world, meteorologists said. A new study calculated that an unusual recent twist in the warming and cooling cycle that includes El...
NEW YORK (AP) — Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the East Coast as a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday threatened to make a mess of the start of a new week. The National...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands Government has circulated a proposed schedule of immigration fee increases, including fees for work permits, residency and status, which it says are needed to help balance this year’s budget....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier. Trump said in a social media post on that he was making the decision “Based on a...
United States President Donald Trump today said he’ll sign an executive order that would impose a 10% global tariff as an alternative while pressing his trade policies by other means after the Supreme Court struck down his far-reaching global...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Jamaicans are among 85 inmates in the Bahamas who have been granted the prerogative of mercy by the government on the condition that they do not return to the country, as the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services...
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centres on the tariffs Trump unilaterally imposed under an...
HAVANA (AP) — Guillermo Beltrán walked away with two heavy bags on Thursday, each containing an essential haul — rice, beans, amaranth and crackers — complemented by a bottle of oil, large cans of sardines and canned peaches. Every label carried...
A magistrate’s court in The Bahamas has sentenced a 26-year-old Haitian man to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to acquiring a Bahamian passport, NIB smart card and voter’s card through fraud. Wakens Saint-Matin pleaded guilty to...
LONDON (AP) — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British prince who was stripped of his royal titles because of his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. While...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress on Wednesday will choose the country’s eighth president in a decade to replace the newly ousted former leader José Jerí, with four lawmakers who are largely unknown to the public vying for the position. The...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Catholic diocese this week agreed to a $180 million settlement to resolve allegations of clergy sexual abuse, a figure far exceeding agreements in some large dioceses but still dwarfed by other massive settlements...
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2026 | 12:06 PM
MOSCOW (AP) — The Cuban foreign minister visited Moscow on Wednesday as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a US oil embargo. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey...
Published:Wednesday | February 18, 2026 | 10:41 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police in Trinidad say a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed by a bullet intended for his father that ricocheted and struck him during a gun attack outside their home in La Horquetta on Monday night. Police said...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Phillip Pierre Monday said the St Lucia government “is actively engaging through established diplomatic and security channels” after confirming that “people lost their lives” in the latest United States...
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators are investigating Shein over concerns the online retailer hasn’t done enough to limit the sale of illegal products or protect users from the platform’s allegedly addictive design. The 27-nation bloc’s...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada is amending its domestic violence law to recognise the rights of couples who have lived together for more than five years by extending to them the same rights as if they were married. The amendment is among...
MUNICH (AP): A top European Union (EU) official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure”, pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the...
ALEPPO (AP): A month after clashes rocked a Kurdish-majority neighbourhood in Syria ‘s second-largest city of Aleppo, most of the tens of thousands of residents who fled the fighting between government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...
JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia’s military said Sunday that up to 8,000 troops are expected to be ready by the end of June for a potential deployment to Gaza as part of a humanitarian and peace mission, the first firm commitment to a critical element of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own as immigration officials expanded the practice over the last year to carry out President Donald Trump’s goals of...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Mia Mottley has indicated that her new Barbados Labour Party (BLP) government will introduce legislation dealing with how legislators cross the floor following a general election. Mottley, who was...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country, according to a new UNICEF report released Thursday. The surge comes as gang...
HAVANA (AP) — Two Mexican Navy ships laden with humanitarian aid docked in Cuba on Thursday as a United States blockade deepens the island’s energy crisis. The ships arrived two weeks after US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any...
