Published:Saturday | October 24, 2020 | 6:07 PMCMC
(CMC): An American Airlines plane with 28 people on board veered off the runway after landing on runway 6 in Freeport in The Bahamas today. Officials said no one was killed or injured as Flight AA4194, an Eagle flight operated by American’s...
Published:Saturday | October 24, 2020 | 10:29 AMCMC
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, must maintain vaccination and epidemiological surveillance against poliomyelitis during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to prevent...
(CMC): An agreement is to be signed between Guyana and neighbouring Suriname for a bridge to be built across the Corentyne River that runs along the border. The signing is expected to take place when Guyana's president visits...
(CMC): The Cayman Islands suffered minimal damage following the recent passage of Hurricane Delta. According to reports from disaster assessment teams, damage to housing stock turned out to be minimal and there was no significant flooding inland....
(CMC): The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region is not likely to see a return to pre-COVID-19 growth rates before 2025. Addressing a high-level virtual meeting, organised by...
Published:Saturday | October 10, 2020 | 3:12 PMCMC
(CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government today announced a minor relaxation of some measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, but maintained that churches, restaurants and bars would remain closed until, at least, October 24....
(CMC): Guyana has acknowledged the possibility of a “short window” to take full advantage of its oil industry before alternative forms of energy take hold of the international market and severely diminish the country’s ability to...
Published:Sunday | September 27, 2020 | 1:17 PMCMC
(CMC): The nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has unveiled several blue economy investment opportunities on the opening day of its Sustainable Development Movement (SDM 2020). The World Bank defines the blue economy as...
Published:Sunday | September 27, 2020 | 10:53 AMCMC
(CMC): Guyana’s chief elections officer, Keith Lowenfield, is now out on station bail, after being arrested yesterday and questioned by police as investigations continued into alleged electoral fraud in the March 2 general and regional...
Published:Saturday | September 26, 2020 | 6:16 PMCMC
(CMC): The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a grant of US$200,000 to assist students across the region who lack access to technological devices and internet to support remote learning in the wake of the COVID-19...
Published:Sunday | September 13, 2020 | 11:31 AMCMC
(CMC): Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Royal Bahamas Police Marine Division and the United States Coast Guard, are continuing a search and rescue mission for several Haitian and Jamaican nationals reportedly missing at sea....
Published:Sunday | September 13, 2020 | 9:37 AMCMC
(CMC): US-based carrier, JetBlue is set to launch a major Caribbean expansion in November, with new routes across the region, from Aruba to St. Maarten. In a recent announcement, the airline said that starting November 19, it will be will be...
(CMC): The authorities in Cuba have announced that new measures will be implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 across the island. The decision was made following reports of more cases in some provinces in east central Cuba last week. In...
Published:Saturday | August 29, 2020 | 12:00 AMCMC
(CMC): Trinidadians should expect to pay a fine for flouting mask-wearing rules to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in that country. Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced that the Public Health (Amendment) Act, passed by Parliament today,...
Published:Saturday | August 29, 2020 | 12:00 AMCMC
(CMC): Haiti has raised the death toll from the passage of Tropical Storm Laura last weekend to 31 and said that eight people are still missing. They are presumed dead. The Ministry of the Interior and the Economic and Social Assistance Fund...
(CMC): A 10-year-old girl was killed in Haiti today when a tree fell on a house in the town of Anse-à-Pitres, to the southeast of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, as Tropical Storm Laura lashed sections of the French-...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2020 | 12:00 AMCMC
(CMC): The Guyana Police Force says it has launched a “comprehensive” investigation into charges against the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield and the Returning Officer for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, in relation...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2020 | 12:00 AMCMC
(CMC): Another person has died in Trinidad and Tobago from COVID-19, pushing the total number of deaths there to 13, the country's Ministry of Health said in a statement. “Thirty-five additional persons have tested positive for COVID...
(CMC): Trinidad police are investigating an incident in which a former United National Congress (UNC) councillor was stabbed late Saturday in Basse Terre Village, Moruga, south of the capital, Port of Spain. The UNC ...
(CMC): Guyana's President Dr Irfaan Ali has said a forensic probe will be conducted into the problems surrounding the disputed March 2 regional and general elections that led to him being declared winner of the presidential poll and...
(CMC): Battle-weary West Indies were staring at a heavy defeat after enduring one of their worst days of the tour, when Chris Broad’s six-wicket haul followed by a trio of damaging half-centuries installed England as firm favourites to...
The United States Southern Command says the US Navy’s Cyclone-class patrol ship USS Shamal (PC 13), along with US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), has recovered more than 3,900 pounds of marijuana in the...
(CMC): Guyana's Court of Appeal, today, said it will provide a ruling on Thursday to a lower court ruling regarding the ongoing challenges with the disputed March 2 regional and general elections. “Having...
(CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government today said it would crack down on legal Venezuelan migrants who have been facilitating the illegal entry of their relatives and friends from the South American country, as health authorities...
(CMC): Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has called for the recount of the results from Guyana’s March 2 general election to be declared quickly. Beckles made the call in a statement on...
