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Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:07 AM

DUBAI (AP): Bahrain accused Iran of striking a desalination plant on Sunday, raising fears that civilian infrastructure may become fair game in the war, as Iran’s president vowed to expand the country’s attacks on American targets across the...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2026 | 12:07 AM

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, Malaysian authorities said Sunday, as...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 2:17 PM

The Clarendon police are probing the death of a man whose body was discovered in Free Town on Saturday. He has been identified as 26-year-old welder Coye Williams. The police report that about 8:35 a.m., passers-by stumbled upon Williams’ body...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 2:09 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court this week sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status for roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the United States. The US Court of Appeals...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 5:47 PM

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening US foreign...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 3:59 PM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government plans to launch a three-month immigration amnesty from April 2 this year for undocumented migrants who have been living in the country for at least four years. Director General of...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:57 PM

MIAMI (AP) — The top Justice Department prosecutor in Miami is considering criminal investigations of Cuban government officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The inquiry comes as President Donald Trump has raised the...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 11:37 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The airspace serving Barbados has been temporarily closed. In a brief statement early Saturday, the Grantley Adams International Airport said the disruption is due to an operational issue, which has affected some...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 10:32 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the United States and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. The conflict, in which nearly...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2026 | 5:39 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Government officials are getting closer to ironing out a refund process for the hundreds of thousands of companies that paid tariffs now deemed illegal. In a filing with the Court of International Trade on Friday, Brandon Lord,...

Published:Thursday | March 5, 2026 | 1:44 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds. Judge Richard Eaton of the US Court of...

Published:Thursday | March 5, 2026 | 10:26 AM

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....

Published:Thursday | March 5, 2026 | 8:52 AM

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...

Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2026 | 12:20 PM

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....

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 8:29 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 7:31 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 6:34 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 4:40 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 4:30 PM

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....

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 3:05 PM

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...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 9:30 PM

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...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 8:17 PM

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...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 5:09 PM

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...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 12:11 AM

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...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 12:11 AM

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...

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