PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 was felt in sections of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday afternoon. According to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Research Centre, the quake, with a depth...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel removed the country's economy minister on Friday, according to state media, following a delay in recently announced measures to increase the prices of fuel and transportation. Cuba...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Ambassador Dennis Francis, Friday warned that the global community is losing ground on peace, precisely when it is needed most. Addressing a joint briefing of...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge in Barbados has ordered a father to pay BDS$15,000 in compensation to his daughter after he placed her hand on a lit stove burner as punishment for stealing almost six years ago. Justice Laurie-...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Construction of two private villas inside a national park in Barbuda has sparked the latest environmental legal fight between angry residents and wealthy foreigners seeking to develop the Caribbean island with...
DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of forcing four boys who lived in the institution to engage in sexual acts more than a decade ago will remain behind bars for now even though a magistrate judge...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities searched for migrants missing off Puerto Rico's northwest coast Thursday after a crowded boat capsized, killing at least two people. Puerto Rico police said officers rescued 20 occupants of the...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Surinamese Association of Journalists (SVJ) Wednesday expressed “serious concern” at the move by President Chandrikapersad Santokhi to ban a publication by a Dutch author and entrepreneur...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Bahamas Prime Minister Phillip Davis has confirmed that the company electronically monitoring people on bail is now under review amid reports that the system is failing. “The discussion that was had with the...
ST JOHN'S, CMC – Law enforcement authorities in Antigua say a Jamaican woman who escaped from the Department of Immigration has been recaptured. They say Donnalee Samantha Salmon was apprehended on Tuesday night. She was one of two...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, Jan 31, CMC – Three policemen in St Vincent who were allegedly involved in the beating of a 10-year-old boy at a police station last Sunday have been suspended from duty. A statement from the Police Public Relations and...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – A magistrate court in Antigua on Tuesday sentenced a Jamaican woman to seven months in jail for escaping lawful custody. Tiffanie Stephanie Howell, 30, who was on the run for the past week, surrendered to the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse issued an arrest warrant for his wife late last year for failing to meet with him so he could interrogate her...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radio stations across Haiti got jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a UN-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Many callers wondered...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's high court on Friday blocked the United Nations-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control. Judge Chacha Mwita said...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Convicted Jamaica-born attorney, Vincent Nelson, is seeking TT$96 million in his civil claim against the Government for compensation for an alleged breach of an indemnity agreement to protect him from...
MIAMI, CMC—The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cutter Dependable rescued 33 Haitian migrants on Monday after their vessel began taking on water about six miles north of Cap-Haitien, Haiti. The US Coast Guard said...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The date for the rape trial of Barbados' former Deputy Speaker of the House and Member of Parliament Neil Rowe has been set for June 11. Rowe was arraigned on Thursday morning in the Supreme Court. He pleaded...
NEW YORK, CMC – Bronx, New York-based immigration attorney Kofi Amankwaa and his son, Kofi Amankwaa Jr., have been accused of carrying out a “large-scale” immigration fraud scheme on Caribbean and other migrants. The...
Six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press on Thursday. The group was released late Wednesday, and everyone is in good condition, said...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Mia Mottley has defended the decision to remove Neil Rowe as deputy speaker of the Parliament, saying it will allow him to deal with a matter he faces before the High Court. Last September,...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Police are searching for a gunman who fired several gunshots at the home of Health Minister, Amar Ramadhin, during the early hours of Wednesday morning. Police said that no one was injured and that they have been...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in racially diverse Puerto Rico have opened a public debate on a bill to explicitly prohibit discrimination against hairstyles such as cornrows and Afros, sparking a heated debate. Local government...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Health authorities in St Lucia Monday confirmed that the island has recorded its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-1) Omicron variant HV.1 as they reported an increase in the number of persons presenting with...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A study conducted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has found that the average commuter in Trinidad and Tobago spends about one month annually in traffic delays. The study...
