BRASILIA, Brazil, CMC – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Winston Anderson has proposed the establishment of an international climate injuries compensation (ICIC) fund to provide compensation for damage and...
ZURICH (AP) — YouTube made a World Cup deal with FIFA on Tuesday that lets rights-holding broadcasters stream game action live on the video platform that offers global access to young viewers. FIFA announced a “game-changing partnership” that...
HAVANA (AP) — Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted a “...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the Government of Antigua and Barbuda has been absorbing part of the impact of rising global fuel prices in an effort to limit increases in the cost of living. Speaking on his weekend...
Jet fuel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies, putting cost pressure on airlines as the busy summer travel season approaches. Experts say it’s not a question of if airfares will go up, but when, for how...
Clouds of toxic smoke unleashed into the atmosphere by US-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities made a dangerous return to Earth in the form of ‘black rain’, prompting international health officials to warn of serious risks to the public....
KYIV (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he was ready for the next round of trilateral peace talks to end Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion of Ukraine, but that it was up to Washington and Moscow to agree on where and...
LONDON (AP): Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have hit back at the author of a new book on Britain’s royal family, describing his writing as “deranged conspiracy and melodrama”. In a strongly worded statement issued on Saturday...
Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina’s Allendale County has looked overseas for help. A quarter of the teachers in the rural, high-poverty district come from other countries. The superintendent praises the...
MIAMI (AP) — The widow of Jovenel Moïse - Haiti’s last elected president - described being shot and wounded during the 2021 assassination of her husband while testifying Wednesday in the United States federal trial of four men charged with...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada alleged in a civil lawsuit Monday that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI knew the shooter was planning a mass attack. OpenAI has said it considered but...
PARIS (AP) — Gasolene prices are rising largely because of the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passageway for oil and gas from the Persian Gulf. The waterway off Iran’s coast, now effectively closed, is so vital for the...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Of those killed, 17 were children and 43 were adults not...
MIAMI (AP) — Greed, arrogance and power were the driving forces behind four men charged in the U.S. for the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s last elected president, Jovenel Moïse, prosecutors said Tuesday during opening statements. Federal...
NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar 10– A Jamaican man has been remanded in the Bahamas after he pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of drug and gun possession. The prosecution told Acting Chief Magistrate Ancella Evans that Akeem Williams, 30, was in the...
All JetBlue flights were briefly grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration early Tuesday at the request of the airline as it dealt with a short system outage. The ground stop was lifted about 40 minutes after it was imposed, the agency...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Cuban officials are preparing to withdraw the nation’s medical brigade from Guyana after it moved to provide full salaries to doctors and nurses from the island instead of sending most of the payments to the Cuban...
HAVANA (AP) — An impromptu sit-in protest at the steps of Havana University on Monday drew a small group of students concerned about their education amid an energy crisis worsened by a United States oil blockade of the island, which has reduced...
MIAMI (AP) — A jury was seated Monday in the United States federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. A panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in just before 7 p.m., about nine a...
CMC Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana have joined a newly formed military alliance known as the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition. The agreement was formalised after United States (US) President Donald Trump signed the Doral Charter during the Shield...
CMC: President Mohamed Irfaan Ali says the security climate in the Caribbean and Latin America has improved in recent weeks following major political developments in neighbouring Venezuela. Ali made the remarks during an interview with Fox News on...
CMC The San Diego, California-based Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has condemned the death of a Haitian national in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. On Friday, ICE said Emanuel Cleeford Damas, “a...
CMC: Jamaican American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph has joined the conversation surrounding the discontinuation of the Cuban Medical Brigade programme. “Will America now send the doctors so badly needed in Jamaica,” said Ralph in a post on social media...
OSLO (AP): Police in Norway were investigating an explosion early Sunday outside the US Embassy in Oslo, the capital of the Scandinavian country, officials said. No injuries were reported. Police received reports of a “loud bang” or explosion...
