GEORGETOWN (CMC): The outgoing chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister of Grenada Dickon Mitchell, says the regional body has held true to the commitment to decisive leadership and collective action as intrinsic pillars to...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has maintained that it does not operate a “flag of convenience for vessels” after the United States recently sanctioned five vessels registered under the Guyana flag. “The government of Guyana makes it...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): The vice-chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Party (NDP), Ramon Abrahams, says while the party has not requested a state funeral for former president Desi Bouterse,” if it comes, it comes”. Bouterse, 79, and his...
BANGKOK (AP):The order came from the top. China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. He ordered local governments to prevent future “extreme cases”. The attacks, where drivers mow...
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a "political resolution" to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is developing a cell phone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained by the US immigration department, a senior official said Friday. The move is...
MAPUTO, Mozambique. (AP) — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique's capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country's police chief said, as widespread post-election riots and violence...
WAKEFIELD, N.H. (AP) — Four people died in a New Hampshire home on Christmas Day due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. Police were called to the house in the town of Wakefield around 4:20 p.m. for a welfare check, said...
WASHINGTON (CMC ): Outgoing United States President, Joe Biden, is being urged to exonerate Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, for a 1923 conviction for the fraudulent use of the mail. Several US legislators, including Democratic...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, 79, died on Tuesday following a short illness, well-placed sources have confirmed. They said that he died at his hiding place and that the body has since been transferred to the capital...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A survivor of the worst gang attack on Haitian journalists in recent memory described Wednesday seeing colleagues cut down by bullets and reporters with head and chest wounds going an hour or more without help. Two reporters...
NEW YORK (AP) — A taxicab hit six pedestrians in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, police said, with three people — including a nine-year-old boy — transported to hospitals for their injuries. A New York Police Department...
PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities are investigating a Christmas shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left three people injured by gunfire and another person stabbed. Police said the incident was related to a family dispute. Phoenix police...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): The death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events in Nigeria has increased from 13 to 32, police said on Sunday. The victims, including at least four children, collapsed during crowd surges as people grew...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP): One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States. A short while...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): James Bristol, a former attorney general of Grenada during the Tillman Thomas administration, is of the view that the Public Sector Employees (Pension Fund) Bill 2024 which was approved in the Lower House of Parliament last week...
PANAMA CITY (AP): Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — With perfect pirouettes and plies, dozens of young ballet dancers gracefully moved between the makeshift iron houses of one of Africa's largest urban slums, spreading Christmas spirit. Hundreds of residents in...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another sombre Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West Bank during Christmas...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn real estate magnate accused of working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge tied to the scheme,...
American Airlines flights were cleared to fly by regulators early Tuesday after a brief grounding due to a systemwide technical issue. Just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all American Airlines flights...
CATALAO, Brazil (AP): Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to children in a village near the Brazilian city of Manaus. The visit was arranged by Amigos do Papai Noel, a Brazilian...
DARDGHAYA, Lebanon (AP):A Christmas tree stands among the fallen stones of what remains of St. George Melkite Catholic Church in southern Lebanon. Once a vibrant community centre, the 18th-century church is in ruins after an Israeli airstrike in...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States...
