NASSAU (CMC): The former head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Chief Superintendent Michael Johnson, has resigned from the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) as the investigations continue into an explosive audio recordings which...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): The Guyana government says new legislation will be introduced this year to address the growing issue of crime in the Caribbean. It said that the effort is being spearheaded by several bodies, including the Guyana-based...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has made the first installment of the LIAT Employees Compassionate Payment Bond, which has since been been transferred to BDO Eastern Caribbean for distribution to the eligible former...
NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set US President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for January 10 — a little over a week before he's due to return to the White House — but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labelled on drinks Americans consume, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday. Murthy's advisory comes as research and...
The Transportation Department said Friday it will hit JetBlue Airways with a $2 million penalty for chronically late flights along the East Coast, and half the money will go to passengers who were delayed. The agency said it's the first time it...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff on Friday during which he defied their attempt to detain him. It's the latest...
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in...
PANAMA CITY (AP): Panama on Tuesday celebrated the 25th anniversary of the US handover of the Panama Canal, which President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to take back. The commemoration was made more poignant by the death on Sunday of former...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): A US Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans, killing 15 people, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and...
PESHAWAR (AP): Tribal elders backed by local authorities in restive northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday brokered a peace deal between minority Shiites and majority Sunni tribes, weeks after deadly clashes that killed at least 130 people, officials...
SAN JUAN (AP): Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island prepared for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the US territory days ago. González, a...
FULLERTON, California (AP) — Two people were killed and 18 injured when a small plane crashed through the rooftop of a commercial building in Southern California on Thursday, police said. Police got a report at 2:09 p.m. about the crash in...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an incoming train in New York City on New Year's Eve is expected to make a full recovery, a relative said, while the person accused of pushing him was being held...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death penalty himself in the...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Federal agents found one of the largest stockpiles of homemade explosives they have ever seized when they arrested a Virginia man on a firearms charge last month, according to a court filing by federal prosecutors....
NEW YORK (AP) — Ten people were wounded in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub while they were waiting to get into a private event, police said. About 15 people were standing outside Amazura nightclub at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday in...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Mia Mottley Wednesday said that the 15-member regional integration movement begins 2025 at the crossroads of immense challenges and extraordinary opportunities against a backdrop of global...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has confirmed that his brother, Alpheus, died on Monday, the same day Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency ( SoE) due to the threat to national security posed by reprisal killings...
BERLIN (AP): The German government on Wednesday condemned a series of incidents on New Year’s Eve in which police officers and firefighters were attacked and injured, mostly with fireworks. Revellers across the country traditionally ring in the new...
DAMASCUS (AP): In Damascus, the streets were buzzing with excitement Tuesday as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s government weeks earlier. While...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver rammed a vehicle into a crowd of New Orleans revellers early on New Year's Day, killing 10 people and injuring 35 others in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. The driver was killed in a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the US territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore...
WASHINGTON (AP): Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday. The department did not provide details on...
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has written to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and United States President, Joe Biden, calling for...
