PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Ariel Henry says he has “deposited … a floral offering” at a ceremony marking the 125th anniversary of the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines even as video recordings emerged showing that Henry and other...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) on Monday denied social media reports that police stations were under attack, assuring the population that the “voice note circulating via WhatsApp is fals”. “If an incident such as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the January 6 insurrection to the congressional committee investigating the attack, challenging the decision of President Joe Biden...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One of the world's last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines started giving out doses on Monday as the East African nation of Burundi launched its national campaign. The vaccinations started in the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — American officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children connected with a US-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious...
ROME (AP) — Italy's president on Monday strongly criticised the violence that has erupted amid protests over the country's new coronavirus workplace health pass requirement, saying it appeared aimed at jeopardising Italy's...
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died from COVID-19 complications, his family has said. He was 84. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. “We have lost a remarkable and...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings was accused by police Sunday of abducting 17 missionaries from a US-based organisation. Five children were believed to be among those kidnapped. The 400 Mawozo...
NAIROBI (AP): As food and the means to buy it dwindled in a city under siege, a young mother felt she could do no more. She killed herself, unable to feed her children. In a Catholic church across town, flour and oil to make communion wafers will...
TORTOLA (CMC): Health Minister Carvin Malone says the Cabinet has revoked the existing curfew that was in effect in the territory for the last several weeks. Malone, in making the announcement in an audio broadcast on Friday, indicated that the...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Joe Biden administration in the United States on Saturday strongly condemned what it said was the Cuban government’s decision to deny permission for peaceful protests to take place on November 15. “By refusing to allow these...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Saturday brushed aside efforts by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to remove President Paula-Mae Weekes from office, announcing also that over a year ago he had written to the Police...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of New York residents are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the latest federal statistics. About 12.7 million of New York's 20 million residents are fully vaccinated, according to...
ORANGE, California (AP) — Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection, arriving home in New York later in the day to continue his recovery, a spokesman said. The former...
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 18 people have died a day after torrential rains swept through villages and flooded roads in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Officials said rescuers recovered the bodies in two of the worst-hit districts,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Defense Department said Friday that it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. Pentagon...
LONDON (AP) — British health officials said Friday that 43,000 people may have been wrongly told they don't have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory. The United Kingdom Health Security Agency said the Immensa...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mask rules, vaccination mandates and business shutdowns have all landed in the courts during the COVID-19 outbreak, confronting judges with questions of science and government authority. Now they are increasingly being asked...
Jamaica has recorded 31 more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 2,103. The deceased are: Hanover * A 56-year-old male * A 42-year-old female * An 82-year-old woman * A 61-year-old woman * A 71-year-old woman * A 27-year-...
BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and biotechnology company BioNTech said Friday they have requested to have their coronavirus vaccine licensed for children ages five to 11 across the European Union. If EU regulators agree, it...
LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Leaders from across the political spectrum came together Saturday to pay their respects to a long-serving British lawmaker who was stabbed to death in what police say was a terrorist-related attack. His death has...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia's West Java Province, officials said Saturday. Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic junior...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) environment ministers on Friday began a meeting in preparation for the region’s participation at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) that opens in Scotland at the end of this month. CARICOM Secretary...
GUYANA (CMC): The former chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe, was on Friday released on GUY$325,000 (One Guyana dollar = US$0.004 cents) bail after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of sexual...
