PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based regional conglomerate, Massy Holdings, has denied “scandalous” claims made by its shareholder and general counsel Angelique Parisot-Potter, that employees are being trained to...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC -Opposition legislators on Tuesday boycotted the first day of the debate on the EC$1.3 billion budget Prime Minister Gaston Browne delivered to Parliament last Friday, insisting that there was not enough time to...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank says remittance flows continue to grow in the Caribbean and other places, albeit at a slower pace. The Washington-based financial institution said that remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) says it has revoked the licence of BON Bank Ltd to carry on banking business effective, December 15, this year. In a brief statement, the ECCB, which serves as a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Transport, Works and Water Resources Minister, Santia Bradshaw, has called for an investigation after a video posted on social media showed a four-old child collecting bus fare on a public service vehicle....
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica's National Security Minister Rayburn Blackmoore Friday confirmed that foreign investigators have arrived on the island to probe the disappearance of several firearms and ammunition from a police station in...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two private companies announced Friday a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean, including Jamaica, bred with a bacterium that blocks the dengue virus as the region fights a record...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The international, medical, humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Friday said it is suspending “indefinitely” all activities at the Turgeau Emergency Centre, after a group of armed...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The head of Haiti's national police visited Kenya Thursday, as local authorities prepare for the deployment of Kenyan police to the Caribbean nation plagued by gang violence. Kenyan authorities said Thursday that...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A boat carrying 12 passengers sank north of the Dominican Republic during inclement weather, and all have been rescued, according to the United States Coast Guard. Six of the passengers who were aboard a raft were...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister of St Vincent Dr Ralph Gonsalves says several CARICOM leaders are due there later on Wednesday ahead of the talks between Presidents Irfaan Ali and Nicolas Maduro regarding the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Oil giant ExxonMobil says it will keep ramping up production in offshore Guyana despite the escalation of a territorial dispute with neighbouring Venezuela, which claims the oil-rich region as its own. In a...
WASHINGTON, CMC -The United States government has named a number of Haitian nationals, including former prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive, among 30 people involved in significant corruption or a gross violation of human rights. The US State...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) is calling on the Bahamian authorities to do more to ensure people under arrest are given access to legal representation. “The Working Group...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyanese President Irfaan Ali says his meeting on Thursday with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would be confined to discussing the need for peace and respect for international law despite their ongoing border...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucian government says it will be paying out an estimated EC$20 million in outstanding tax refunds dating back to 2015. A government statement said that the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has received the...
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali and President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro are to meet next week on the disputed Essequibo region. A statement from the Office of the President in Guyana today said the parties will meet in St Vincent...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency meeting late Friday requested by Guyana after Venezuela's referendum claiming the vast oil- and mineral-rich Essequibo...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook (CariCOF) says over the next three months, the cool season will feature more comfortable temperatures and humidity. It said that the period December to February next...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) helicopter that went down on Wednesday was spotted Thursday morning and a rescue team was being inserted into the mountainous and forested area, the defence force said in a statement....
GENEVA, CMC – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on Caribbean and other countries to increase taxes on alcohol and sugary sweetened beverages (SSBs). In releasing new data earlier this week, the WHO said that a low global...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Wednesday said that it has initiated a search and rescue operation to locate a missing helicopter carrying three crew members and four passengers. In a brief statement, the GDF said...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Guyana's President Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from a potential incursion by Venezuela, which has ordered its state-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean continues to be rattled by earthquakes in recent days, with the latest occurring on Wednesday with a 4.4 magnitude tremor affecting Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and St Lucia. The...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will take the border issue with Venezuela to the United Nations on Wednesday after it described as “unsettling developments” in relation to the “unlawful claim”...
