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...
BASSETERRE, ST Kitts, CMC -The British Virgin Islands (BVI) will not allow the free movement of Caribbean nationals if it is accepted as a full member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has said. He told...
Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program....
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimè says law enforcement in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been making “some serious inroads” in gang areas and he remains confident that elections will...
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...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): As the sun rose, a handful of women opened tattered beach umbrellas in the heart of Port-au-Prince and scanned the horizon before opening their fruit and vegetable stands. It was unusually quiet in Carrefour Aéroport, a famed...
SEOUL (AP): The US and South Korean militaries said on Wednesday they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their countries’ combined defence capabilities against a backdrop of a deepening diplomatic freeze with...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): Iran pushed back Wednesday against US President Donald Trump’s pressure tactics ahead of critical talks in Geneva over Tehran’s nuclear programme, alternating between calling his remarks “big lies” and saying...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC ): Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister told regional leaders on Tuesday “who vex loss” as she reiterated her full support for the United States military presence in the Caribbean in helping to deal with the illegal...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts and Nevis (AP) — United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s military operation to capture Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, telling Caribbean leaders, many of whom objected to that...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is considering stricter measures following a sharp increase in reports of lost passports. According to Director General of Communications Maurice Merchant, dozens of citizens had...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Wednesday it is sending $8 million Canadian (US$6.7 million) in food aid to people in Cuba as the island faces an escalating fuel crisis as oil shipments have slowed following US threats of tariffs. Foreign Affairs...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2026 | 11:04 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has sent a second humanitarian aid package for Cuba as the island faces a tightened US embargo and threats of tariffs against countries providing it with oil. Two Mexican navy vessels carrying 1,193 tons of supplies...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2026 | 10:46 AM
MIAMI, CMC – A 36-year-old man from Trinidad and Tobago has been sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison in the United States for conspiring to smuggle more than 200 firearms from America to his home country. Shem Wayne...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2026 | 12:11 AM
TORONTO (AP): Canada announced Monday that it is working on an aid package for Cuba as it faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.S oil embargo. Foreign Minister Anita Anand declined to give details beyond that. “We are preparing...
