KINGSTOWN, ST Vincent, CMC – The St Vincent and the Grenadines Parliament has amended the country's citizenship law allowing for “second-generation Vincentians” born overseas to be considered for citizenship. Currently, under...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Residents in Bermuda are keeping an eye on the passage of Hurricane Lee, the large and powerful storm that is expected to pass west of the island on Friday. Officials of the Emergency Measures Organisation (EMO) met...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana's President Dr Irfaan Ali has announced that his administration will be adjusting the daily minimum wage and the income tax threshold. Speaking during a press conference at State House in Georgetown...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Jarbas Barbosa says that with nearly 100,000 deaths by suicide each year in the Americas, it is a “significant public health concern” for the...
GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC – The corruption trial of former premier Michael Misick and two of his co-conspirators is expected to begin in Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in October. Misick, who was first elected as...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament Friday approved a motion extending economic sanctions against Haiti in keeping with a United Nations resolution, and dismissing opposition claims that Port of Spain and...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people in connection with what they described as a network to recruit Cuban nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine. The head of criminal investigations for Cuba's Interior Ministry,...
The Chapleton police have charged Tevin Douglas, a 27-year-old Disc Jockey from Lower Chapleton, Clarendon, in connection with a case of rape that occurred on Sunday, September 03. According to the woman, who was walking to a shop about 12:45 p.m...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Public school teacher Ángel Muñiz grabbed a thermometer and thrust it into the camera as someone recorded him inside his classroom this week. “It is about 99 degrees (37 C),” he said in a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Lee on Friday charged through warm Atlantic waters as the season's first Category 5 storm, threatening to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean. The hurricane is not expected to...
MIAMI, CMC – A former Colombian soldier on Thursday pleaded guilty when he appeared in a Miami court in connection with the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. According to the plea agreement...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A government legislator in Barbados has disclosed that the government is working on lowering taxes on healthy foods. In an interview with Barbados Today, the Minister of Energy and Business Development...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Lee churned through the open waters of the Atlantic on Wednesday and was expected to soon become a hurricane as it approached the Caribbean. The storm was located about 1,265 miles (2,040 kilometres...
SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Tuesday predicted that the region's economies will maintain low levels of growth this year and next year, affected by a negative global and very...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Eminent Persons Group (EPG) has arrived in Haiti as regional leaders prepare to meet virtually on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing socio-economic and political situation in the...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda police say they are stepping up surveillance in the country after two “ghost guns” were discovered, acknowledging also that “there is no easy way to trace them”. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Two earthquakes rattled several Caribbean islands over the past 24 hours, the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies reported Monday. There were no immediate...
NEW YORK, CMC – Over three million spectators and thousands of masqueraders and revellers are expected to converge on Monday, in picture-perfect weather, on one of Brooklyn's major thoroughfares, Eastern Parkway, for the annual...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – A United Nations-appointed human rights expert on Friday urged the international community to increase assistance to The Bahamas and other Small Island States that face elevated threats from natural disasters resulting...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says arrangements are being negotiated between LIAT (2020) Limited and the court-appointed administrator of the inter-regional airline LIAT (1974) regarding the purchase of the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United Nations said Thursday that 1,860 people were reported killed, injured or kidnapped in Haiti from April to June, a 14% increase compared with the first three months of the year. The surge in gang...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Three people were arrested Wednesday in the Dominican Republic as part of an ongoing investigation into a powerful explosion at a plastics company that killed at least 34 people earlier this...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A judge in Haiti is for the first time interrogating some of the 18 Colombian suspects arrested more than two years ago and accused of being part of a mercenary squad that assassinated President Jovenel Mo...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago police Wednesday said they had seized a quantity of “ghost guns” that were manufactured utilising 3D printing technology. Police commissioner Erla Christopher described as...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – CARICOM leaders will meet next week Wednesday to discuss the ongoing social and political situation in Haiti, CARICOM chairman, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced. “We will meet virtually as...
