ROSEAU (CMC): Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called on Caribbean countries to support the Bridgetown Initiative, which is a call for urgent and decisive action to reform the international financial architecture. Addressing the 70th...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States has named Henry Wooster as the new ambassador to Haiti. “I’m pleased to announce that Ambassador Henry Wooster will take on the role of Chargé d’Affaires at the United States Embassy in Haiti beginning June 12....
SAO PAULO (AP): Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures. Influencers have staged...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States has named Henry Wooster as the new ambassador to Haiti. “I’m pleased to announce that Ambassador Henry Wooster will take on the role of Chargé d’Affaires at the United States Embassy in Haiti beginning June 12...
MILAN (AP) — Sicily's Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several miles into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population. The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) has called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to re-consider its position regarding legislation allowing for law-abiding citizens to have access to legal firearms in defence of...
US forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and six to 10 of those becoming hurricanes. But, how do they know what’s likely to...
At the opening of the 17th Greater Caribbean Business Forum in Cartagena, Colombia, Stacy Richards-Kennedy, regional manager for the Caribbean at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean called for an inclusive and ethically...
LONDON (AP): UK government figures Sunday showed that more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the country on Saturday in small boats from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a single day so far this year. The latest Home...
PRINCETON (AP): While other students might be in class or socialising at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel. They sing Gregorian chants in Latin, pray and receive Communion at a...
PARIS (AP): Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a Saint-Tropez beach, drawing languorous puffs from her cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, swaggered down the Champs-Élysées with smoke curling from his defiant lips, capturing a...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger rose to at least 151 on Saturday, the local emergency service said, amid efforts to find more victims. Torrents of predawn...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP): Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior official with the group told The Associated Press on Saturday, but US envoy Steve Witkoff called the Hamas response “totally unacceptable”....
WASHINGTON (CMC): Caribbean immigration advocates and legislators in the United States on Friday expressed profound outrage over the Supreme Court’s stripping of the legal status and work permits for nearly 500,000 Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and...
MARSEILLE, France (AP): The lighthouse appeared overnight. Painted on a wall tucked away in a quiet Marseille street, its beam aligned perfectly with the real-life shadow of a metal post on the pavement. At its center, stenciled in crisp white, are...
SINGAPORE (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron warned the United States and a large audience of Indo-Pacific nations on Friday night that they risk a dangerous double standard as they concentrate on a potential conflict with China, if that shift...
LIMA, Peru (AP): Pope Leo XIV hasn’t forgotten his responsibilities as a Peruvian citizen: He updated his national registration information Friday with his new Vatican address and a headshot. Peru’s national registry agency said in a statement that...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): More than 60 United Nations offices, agencies and operations have been ordered to submit proposals by mid-June to cut 20 per cent of their staff, as part of a major reform effort to consolidate operations in the face of a...
Scientists say four billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025. The extreme heat caused illness, death, crop losses, and...
NEW YORK (AP): Businesses rattled by US President Donald Trump’s on again, off again tariffs absorbed more jolts on Thursday after a US appeals court temporarily blocked a federal court order that would have halted most of his taxes on foreign...
WASHINGTON (AP): Elon Musk arrived in the United States capital with the chainsaw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm. President Donald Trump...
BOSTON (AP): Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one...
KONGSBERG, Norway (AP): In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II. More than 80 years later, the municipality could once again be a target...
HONG KONG (AP): Dozens of countries joined China on Friday in establishing an international mediation-based dispute resolution group. Representatives of more than 30 other countries, from Pakistan and Indonesia to Belarus and Cuba, signed the...
SINGAPORE (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US and a large audience of Indo-Pacific nations Friday night that they risk a dangerous double standard as they concentrate on a potential conflict with China if that shift comes at the...
