PORT-OF-SPAIN (AP): Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency Friday after authorities accused a criminal network operating in prisons across the country of plotting to kill key government officials and attack public institutions. It’s...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyanese government on Friday said that it had launched an investigation into videos circulating on social media alleging sexual assault. “The Ministry of Home Affairs expresses grave concern over the circulation...
LONDON (AP): Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The centre-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in...
WASHINGTON (AP): White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday read a doctor’s letter about President Donald Trump that she said was intended to dispel health concerns about the swelling in his ankles and a makeup-covered hand. Leavitt...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The massive crowd that would gather once a year at a revered waterfall in central Haiti where the faithful would splash in its sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves was not there on Wednesday. Powerful gangs...
CHICAGO (AP) — Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets for poor people have started Thursday at more than 1,600 locations around the...
HAVANA (AP): A Cuban minister who sparked criticism after saying that there are no beggars in Cuba, only people disguised as such, resigned Tuesday. Cuba’s Presidency said in a post on X that Minister of Labour and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10 per cent on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean. “We’ll probably set one tariff for all of them,” Trump said,...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): The United States has sent five immigrants it says were convicted of serious crimes to the African nation of Eswatini, the US Department of Homeland Security confirmed, in an expansion of the Trump administration’s...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Shawn Mussington, the man who was found guilty of murdering a Jamaican hairdresser with whom he had a relationship, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was sentenced when he appeared in the High Court on Tuesday....
YAOUNDE (AP): Cameroon’s 92-year-old president announced on Sunday he will seek his eighth term in the October elections. The announcement comes after speculation the ageing leader would not run, setting the stage for an electoral showdown. Paul...
A group of immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants who appear at immigration courts for previously scheduled hearings and placing...
LONDON (AP): Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the UK after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them, the British government revealed on...
BANGKOK (AP): Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their intimacy. The possible violation of the...
NASSAU, Bahamas: Leading telecoms provider Liberty Caribbean has underscored the urgency of forging new public-private partnerships, infrastructure initiatives, and policy frameworks to build a Caribbean that is resilient, inclusive, and gigabit-...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Security Council has unanimously extended the mandate of the UN’s political mission in Haiti until the end of the year amid escalating gang violence, political paralysis, and a deepening humanitarian crisis...
NASSAU (CMC): The Bahamas government has described as “false, misleading, and entirely fabricated” a video circulating on social media under the heading ‘The Diplomatic Bombshell’. A statement issued from the Office of the Prime Minister said that...
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their intimacy. The possible violation of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants in the country. The...
HAVANA (AP): The United States government announced Friday it was sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top officials for human rights violations and restricting access to visas on the anniversary of the biggest protests on the...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump said Monday he would punish Russia with tariffs if there isn’t a deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, the latest example of his growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump made...
LONDON (AP) — More than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year — about the same number as the year before — according to UN health officials. Nine countries accounted for more than half of those unprotected children....
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the UN World Meteorological Organization says. “About two billion tons of...
TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that his country would accept a resumption of nuclear talks with the US, if there were assurances of no more attacks against it, state media reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history’s deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived. Stop...
