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MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his role in helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Rodolphe Jaar, 51,...
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has blamed “a very wild card” former commissioner of police, he said had in recent times defied government policy and allowed for a certain category of...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – The police have alerted the Regional Security System (RSS) about the hunt that is under way for Dwayne McDonald, a wanted man who is a suspect in a homicide case. “He is on the high...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Another girls' dormitory was destroyed by fire on Thursday. According to police reports, shortly before 3 a.m. Thursday, the blaze destroyed another dormitory, this time in Karasabai, Rupununi, in Region...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Public Prosecution Service in Suriname is insisting that former president Desi Bouterse be imprisoned for 20 years for his involvement in the murder of 15 people in the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced two Trinidad and Tobago nationals to more than two years in jail after they were found guilty of trafficking marijuana with an estimated street value of BDS$744,600. Anton James and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The death toll from last week's fire at the dormitory of a secondary school in Guyana climbed to 20 on Tuesday after a 13-year-old school girl died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Doctors...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A local human rights groups says violence by armed gangs in the French-speaking CARICOM country has declined significantly following the emergence of a vigilante group, known as Bwa Kale, in April. The Centre...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Haiti is among 18 “hotspot” countries named by two United Nations organisations where hunger is set to worsen as fighting is putting people at risk of starvation. In a report published Monday, the Food and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Magistrate Sunil Scarce Monday adjourned to July 4 the case against a 15-year-old girl charged with 19 counts of murder arising from last week's fire at the dormitory at Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana. The...
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, CMC – Police in Guyana on Sunday said that a secondary school student who allegedly caused the death of 19 of her schoolmates by setting the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School ablaze last Monday, will be...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, will meet with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders early next month in the Bahamas. Government Press Secretary Clint Watson said that Harris, who will be the highest US...
MARIEL, Cuba (AP) — Rosa López, a 59-year-old housewife, lit a charcoal stove to boil sweet potatoes and prepare scrambled eggs for her grandchildren. The gas cylinders she normally uses to cook her meals have not been available for...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police in Guyana conferred Wednesday with prosecutors on what charges to bring against the main teenage suspect in this week's fire that destroyed a girl's dormitory at a school, killing 18 students and a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Acting Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken, is assuring the Guyanese public that the outcome of the investigation into Monday's fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 students will be made public, even as...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Secretary General of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Dr Carla Barnett, says the body has received with great sorrow the shocking news of the deadly fire that razed the dormitory at...
