CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government on Thursday confirmed that it has formally received communication from the United Kingdom government advising that a visa requirement will be introduced for its nationals travelling to the UK....
HAVANA (AP) — A blackout left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba on Wednesday in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid. Government radio station...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines said Tuesday that his government did not give the United States authorisation for a recent strike on an alleged drug boat in local waters that killed three people....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police on Tuesday announced the capture of 121 people charged with kidnapping and extortion in a massive operation that was conducted in various cities and provinces targeted by drug traffickers and rebel groups...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government Tuesday told citizens to be prepared for possible price increases as a result of the ongoing United States-Israel war on Iran. Prime Minister Dr Godwin Friday told a news...
Frustrated and anxious travellers clamoured Tuesday for ways out of the Middle East and beyond as the widening Iran war constrained commercial flights through the region for a fourth day, stranding tens of thousands of people. The conflict that...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — A Jamaican man has been arrested in Antigua as police investigate the seizure of 60 pounds of marijuana during a joint drug interdiction operation at V.C. Bird International Airport last Sunday. The police said officers...
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency Tuesday, only about a month after the end of the previous one, as authorities in the Caribbean nation continue to grapple with high levels of violent crime....
NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A small plane attempting an emergency landing crashed into the frigid Hudson River, but the pilot and a passenger escaped the wreckage and safely swam to shore, authorities said. The crash occurred Monday night, shortly...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A United States federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month. The US Court of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government opened a 10-day registration period Monday for political parties to run in an upcoming general election, a critical step for a country that hasn’t held one in more than a decade as deadly gang...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to loosen a federal law that bars marijuana users from owning guns in a case that crossed typical political lines. A majority of justices appeared to lean toward a narrow ruling in favour...
ALGIERS (AP): As Algerians fast, pray and gather for the holy month of Ramadan, a worry lurks in many minds: how to afford the holiday feasts this year. In addition to its religious significance for billions of Muslims, Ramadan also means tables...
KABUL (AP): Afghanistan thwarted attempted airstrikes on Bagram Air Base, the former US military base north of Kabul, authorities said Sunday, while cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan stretched into a fourth day. The fighting...
Barely an hour after the first US and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. “Now is the time to seize control of your destiny,” he told the Iranian people in a video. “This is the moment for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States is in talks with Havana and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover of Cuba” without offering any details on what he meant. Speaking to reporters outside the...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have ended their four-day summit in St Kitts on Friday agreeing to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, but the exact nature of that assistance has not yet been specified. In addition,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of a sanctioned tanker and nearly two million barrels of petroleum seized off the coast of Venezuela in December, another step by President...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands government is moving to further amend immigration legislation ahead of debate in Parliament next week, introducing provisions to grandfather in certain existing status applications and clarify...
BOGOTA (AP): Colombia is at risk of “reverting to the serious human rights situation” it faced before a peace deal with the nation’s largest rebel group improved security conditions, the United Nations warned yesterday, adding that an uptick of...
COPENHAGEN (AP): Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen yesterday called an early general election for March 24 as the country digests the recent standoff with US President Donald Trump over his designs on the semi-autonomous Danish territory of...
The Trump administration is blocking Venezuela’s government from paying for the cost of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s defence against drug trafficking charges in New York, a move that potentially interferes with his constitutional right to...
NEW YORK (AP) — Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them. The statement came after FedEx filed suit in the US Court of International Trade to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A “buoyant’’ United States economy is poised to see accelerated growth and lower unemployment this year. But big federal budget debts ”represent a growing stability risk,’' the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. The...
