HAVANA (AP) — Recently dismissed Cuban Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández is being investigated by police and the Attorney General's Office after making “serious mistakes,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Secretary General of CARICOM, Dr Carla Barnett said Friday that even as the region celebrates the progress made by women “there are many challenges to be overcome”. In a message marking International...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti's most publicised gang leader has warned of a genocide should Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry be allowed to return to power in Haiti even as he remains stranded in Puerto Rico unable to return to the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's prime minister landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, answering a key question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mar 5, CMC – A coalition of wanted criminal armed gangs has claimed power in Haiti, blocking Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry from returning home after he travelled to Kenya to sign an agreement allowing for a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Policymakers, stakeholders, and communities across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are being urged to take immediate action to overcome one of the region's greatest education crises in the last 100 years, to ensure...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Suriname's former police commissioner, Ruben Peiter, has been sentenced to seven years in jail after he was found guilty in a criminal case involving the discovery of a quantity of cocaine in September 2021....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities have ordered a nighttime curfew in an attempt to regain control of Haiti's streets after an explosion of violence during the weekend, including gunmen from gangs overrunning the country's two...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Senate in Antigua has approved a bill that will see a hike in fees for people wiring money out of the country. The Upper House on Friday approved a legal change to more than double the tax on money transfers...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Hundreds of prisoners escaped from Haiti's National Penitentiary after fighting broke out on Saturday. According to local reports, armed men set fire to the surroundings of the prison and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - A High Court judge in Trinidad and Tobago has ordered the state to pay TT$350,000 in compensation to a former prisoner who was discriminated against and denied treatment because of his HIV-positive status due to the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders said late Wednesday that embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to hold general elections by mid-2025 as the international community pushes to raise money for a foreign armed force...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – A senior United Nations official says humanitarians are hoping that donors will robustly support a US$674 million appeal for Haiti, where armed gangs continue to terrorise the population. “This is a call for...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 11:34 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana's Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has appealed a decision by a magistrate's court to dismiss a case against a former government minister who was charged with indecent exposure after...
KRALENDIJK, Bonaire, CMC – Government says the oil spill that has been impacting Tobago since earlier this month is now posing a “serious threat to both humans and nature” on the Dutch-speaking Caribbean island. In a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in London ruled Tuesday that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have the right to challenge construction of an airstrip that critics say endangers fragile ecosystems and was begun...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An older United States couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners was likely thrown into the ocean and died, police in Grenada said Monday. The announcement...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The regional ferry service involving Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago is expected to begin operations within three months. Guyana's President Irfaan Ali gave the update on Saturday as he addressed the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -CARICOM leaders will begin their 46th summit in Guyana later on Sunday hoping to further advance a number of issues ranging from the ongoing socio-economic and political situation in Haiti to advancing the CARICOM...
KEY WEST, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of the Cutter Thetis returned to their homeport in Key West on Friday following a 62-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea in which they disrupted illegal narcotics trafficking. The...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high school dormitory for Indigenous girls last year have sued the Guyana government, accusing authorities of negligence. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has dismissed a suggestion by an opposition legislator that the authorities consider taxing local artistes who perform overseas. Opposition legislator, Rodney Charles, raised...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Detectives from St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada were on Friday combing a catamaran for evidence as they investigate the disappearance of two United States sailors. The sailors, whose names have not been...
