GEORGETOWN (CMC): Three small political parties have joined with the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in pouring cold water on a suggestion from the ruling coalition that it remains open to dialogue with other political...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says it is unlikely that the Commonwealth would send observers to Trinidad and Tobago for the August 10 general elections, but that there has been a positive response from the Caribbean Community...
WASHINGTON — New international college students — incoming first-year undergraduates and graduate students and the like — won't be allowed to go to the United States this fall if their courses are only online, President Donald...
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of COVID-19. It made her feel bad to leave when she had so...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sued Thursday to stop the sale and publication of a photo of their son Archie that they say was shot at their Los Angeles-area home in invasion of their privacy. The royal couple gives a...
The mayor of Miami, Florida, has encouraged residents to wear masks at home to reduce the coronavirus spread within families. Francis Suarez said on Thursday that the number of new daily coronavirus cases in Miami has been getting lower....
HONOLULU (AP) — The first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges to Hawaii officials long accustomed to tropical storms. For example, how do you secure enough shelter...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nearly three years after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of homes remain badly damaged, many people face a hurricane season under fading blue tarp roofs and the island’s first...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Global hotspot South Africa is seeing a “huge discrepancy” between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an unusually high number of excess deaths from natural causes, while Africa’s top health official said Thursday the coronavirus is...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The substantive arguments in the appeal filed by private citizen Misenga Jones challenging the ruling of the High Court will be heard tomorrow by Appeal Court Judge President Dawn Gregory, along with Justices Priya Seenarine-...
Data continue to show that those with underlying medical conditions are more at risk to COVID-19, but director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, says from all indications, these individuals are facing key...
DALLAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will provide at-home coronavirus tests for some employees, while Southwest and American will tighten their rules on face masks by ending exceptions for medical reasons. “We’re simply seeing too many...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man convicted of terrorism-related crimes, who served his sentence and was then detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been deported after a legal battle to hold him indefinitely stalled. Federal...
PHOENIX – Alex Beric, a 44-year-old immigrant from England, applied for naturalisation in May 2019. He was hoping to become a United States citizen in time to vote in the presidential election this...
BOSTON (AP) — Virtual instruction. Mandated masks. Physical distancing. The start of school will look very different this year because of the coronavirus — and that’s OK with the vast majority of Americans. Only about 1...
The House on Wednesday voted to repeal the Trump administration’s travel ban and further restrict the president’s power to limit entry to the United States, a symbolic victory for Muslim American and civil rights groups. The bill, which...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Laboratories across the United States are buckling under a surge of coronavirus tests, creating long processing delays that experts say are actually undercutting the pandemic response. With the US tally of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, escalating tensions between the world’s largest economies as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure against China ahead of the November election....
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States-based National Hurricane Center is reporting that recently formed Tropical Storm Gonzalo was strengthening in the Atlantic and is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday. Gonzalo was centred about 1,205...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The global tally of people infected with the coronavirus neared 15 million Wednesday, while in the worst-hit pandemic hot spot of the United States, President Donald Trump warned the pandemic would “get worse before...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration offered a $5 million reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of the head of Venezuela’s high court, accusing the judge of taking bribes. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for a December delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharmaceutical company is developing, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — There is growing concern that South Africa’s hospitals may not be able to cope with the numbers of COVID-19 patients expected in the next two months. Neighbouring Zimbabwe imposed a dusk to dawn curfew, banned large...
Newly installed director of Information and Complaints at the Integrity Commission Craig Beresford has said the oversight body will be using the requisite tools contained in the law to ensure full and accurate compliance in relation to the...
Western Bureau: Outspoken Pastor Reverend Devere Nugent, who leads the congregation at the William Knibb Circuit of Baptist Churches in Trelawny, is taking issue with the newly opened J$16.5-million drop-in centre in...
