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Published:Wednesday | November 6, 2024 | 11:21 AM

NEW YORK, CMC – The Caribbean-American community in New York early Wednesday expressed profound disappointment and frustration over the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Trump, the 45th US...

Published:Wednesday | November 6, 2024 | 9:15 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Rafael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Wednesday just hours before it was forecast to make landfall on Wednesday in western Cuba. It was another stroke of bad news for Cuba, which has been...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 11:34 AM

ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Police Commissioner Atlee Patrick Rodney has hinted at the possibility of foreign investigators assisting in the investigation into the death of independent legislator,  Asot Michael, whose body was found in...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 10:14 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 was felt in three Caribbean countries on Monday night, the Trinidad-based Seisic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has reported. It said...

Published:Friday | November 1, 2024 | 4:33 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A private primary school in Guyana on Friday released a video in an attempt to dispel suggestions that one of its teachers had failed to offer assistance to a six-year-old student who died after swallowing a...

Published:Friday | November 1, 2024 | 1:55 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Cuba grapples with blackouts and a deepening economic crisis, Mexico has sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in just a span of days, oil shipment data provided to The Associated Press...

Published:Friday | November 1, 2024 | 9:41 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Scotiabank in Trinidad has announced new measures for providing foreign exchange to its customers, saying they are necessary “as we continue to navigate the foreign exchange considerations”...

Published:Thursday | October 31, 2024 | 2:59 PM

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands government is on the brink of collapse as three Cabinet ministers and a parliamentary secretary quit, leaving the ruling coalition without a working majority. On Thursday, Deputy...

Published:Wednesday | October 30, 2024 | 2:52 PM

The St Vincent and the Grenadines Parliament has given the nod to legislation allowing public servants to contest national or local elections and suffer no loss of employment or benefits if they are unsuccessful at the polls.

Published:Wednesday | October 30, 2024 | 2:50 PM

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – An attorney in Grenada, who successfully filed a constitutional motion calling for the High Court to declare flogging a criminal offence, now wants it to recommend at less EC$50,000 in compensation to men who...

Published:Wednesday | October 30, 2024 | 9:51 AM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Police in St Vincent are investigating the murder of a businesswoman who was shot in Paul Over on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday night in the presence of her grandsons, whose father was killed in a...

Published:Tuesday | October 29, 2024 | 10:01 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Police in Barbados are investigating the death of a 43-year-old driver who was beaten after he was involved in a traffic accident in St Michael and attempted to flee the area. Police said that they had earlier...

Published:Monday | October 28, 2024 | 10:55 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The authorities in the Bahamas are yet to identify the two charred bodies found in the wreckage of a plane that crashed on Ragged Island on Sunday. The crash occurred east of the Duncan Town Airport and the police said...

Published:Friday | October 25, 2024 | 6:52 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least one United States airline on Friday temporarily cancelled flights to Haiti's capital after gang members opened fire and hit a United Nations helicopter flying near the country's main...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 4:41 PM

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — Doctors, nurses and activists in Antigua and Barbuda are fighting a colonial-era law that largely bans abortions, igniting a debate about women's reproductive rights on the tiny twin-island nation. A top...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 9:14 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's Justice Ministry called Tuesday for a boost in security for Prime Minister Garry Conille and other Cabinet officials in response to unspecified threats that they could be targeted by malicious parties...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 5:41 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrated Tuesday as it headed toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people and unleashing heavy rains on an island also hit by...

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 7:07 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Oscar has made landfall in eastern Cuba, an island beleaguered by a massive power outage, after striking the southeastern Bahamas earlier in the day Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center said. The hurricane...

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 3:51 PM

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of about 2,000 migrants left Mexico's southern border Sunday hoping to reach the country's north and ultimately the United States. The development comes weeks before the US presidential election, in...

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 1:17 PM

HAVANA (AP) — Many Cubans were waiting in anguish on Sunday as electricity on much of the island has yet to be totally restored after days of blackout. Some neighbourhoods had electricity restored in Cuba's capital, where 2...

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 10:46 AM

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Oscar made landfall early Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward Cuba, an island recently beleaguered by a massive power outage. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm's center...

Published:Saturday | October 19, 2024 | 5:22 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs attacked in several neighbourhoods of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday, forcing many people to leave their homes after gunfire raged through the night. Authorities did not immediately...

Published:Saturday | October 19, 2024 | 2:56 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday off the coast of the Bahamas, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It characterised the storm as “tiny.” The Government of the Bahamas has issued a hurricane warning for the...

Published:Saturday | October 19, 2024 | 10:59 AM

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's government on Saturday said that some electricity was restored on the island after one of the country's major power plants failed and left millions without electricity in an outage that started two days earlier....

Published:Friday | October 18, 2024 | 8:30 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Friday to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang...

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