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Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 9:14 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) says there was no loss or compromise of customer data, no data was deleted from its databases, or manipulated arising from an attempted cyber attack...

Published:Monday | October 30, 2023 | 9:12 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Two men and one woman were arrested in Guyana in the wee hours of Sunday morning for allegedly attempting to scam a number of Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), police said. The Guyana Police Force said at about 12:15...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 12:46 PM

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) anti-money laundering grey list after more than two years. The British overseas territory was listed in February 2021 due to a...

Published:Saturday | October 28, 2023 | 10:55 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has coordinated with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in facilitating multiple removal flights...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 2:48 PM

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 8:56 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Education Minister, Glenys Hanna Martin, has confirmed that school attendance monitors tasked with getting drop-outs back in school had recently found a 12-year-old boy living alone in a car. She said that the child is...

Published:Tuesday | October 24, 2023 | 7:40 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by United States prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple from their home in Haiti, which left the woman dead, authorities said Tuesday. Vitel'Homme...

Published:Tuesday | October 24, 2023 | 9:34 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyanese government says it is concerned that Venezuela's December 3 referendum could lay the ground work for the annexation of the county of Essequibo, which Caracas has been claiming belongs to it. In a...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 1:27 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Tammy unleashed heavy rain in the northeast Caribbean on Monday as it spun over open waters after making landfall in Barbuda. The storm was located about 260 miles (420 kilometres) north of Anguilla. It...

Published:Monday | October 23, 2023 | 9:49 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue officials say a plane rocked back with its nose pointed skyward after landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a shift in weight on the aircraft. Videos posted on social media...

Published:Sunday | October 22, 2023 | 6:01 PM

CARIBBEAN, CMC- The Miami-based National Hurricane Center in its 5pm bulletin said Hurricane Tammy is moving away from the Caribbean islands but has warned that swells generated by Tammy will continue to affect portions of the Lesser Antilles...

Published:Sunday | October 22, 2023 | 12:55 PM

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, CMC – CARICOM member states will review the Draft Model Credit Reporting Bill and the Draft Model Credit Reporting Regulations at a meeting scheduled to take place from October 30 to November 2. The Eight Special...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 3:01 PM

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis Dr Terrance Drew has activated all emergency services in preparation for the arrival of severe weather. In an address to the nation on Saturday, the Prime Minister said the...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 1:00 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Police on Friday arrested three Venezuelan nationals after they were allegedly found in possession of three unlicensed firearms with ammunition and a quantity of narcotics at Arakaka, Region One. The...

Published:Saturday | October 21, 2023 | 10:38 AM

BRIDGETOWN  Barbados, CMC – A hurricane warning remains in effect for several islands as the core of Hurricane Tammy – a category one storm is just to the east of Dominica. According to the Miami based National Hurricane...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 3:07 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti's capital after being on the run for more...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 1:01 PM

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Friday said it has made its first payments of the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane season, totalling US$3.4 million. It said that the payments were made to...

Published:Friday | October 20, 2023 | 8:45 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A hurricane warning remains in effect for several Caribbean islands as strengthening Tropical Storm Tammy that is forecast to become a hurricane this weekend, inches closer to the Lesser Antilles. Dominica's...

Published:Thursday | October 19, 2023 | 9:34 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is returning to Dominica on Thursday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Tammy could become a hurricane by the end of the weekend. Skerrit, the chairman of the 15-member regional...

Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2023 | 4:12 PM

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC - Commissioner of Police in Belize, Chester Williams, said the identification documents found on the charred remains of two people onboard a plane that crashed soon after it was stolen show that the individuals are from...

Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2023 | 11:35 AM

OTTAWA, Canada, CMC- The first ever Canada-CARICOM summit to be held here got under way on Wednesday with the launch of the CARICOM-Canada Strategic Partnership intended to deepen and strengthen the existing relationships between...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 6:28 PM

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC -The charred bodies of two persons were removed from an airplane used by a domestic airline and reportedly stolen by armed thieves in Placencia in southern Belize. Shortly after takeoff, the plane clipped a lamp post and crash...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 4:11 PM

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Health authorities in Belize say they have discovered falsified Tylenol at various supermarkets across the country and are urging the population to be wary of the situation. In a statement, the Ministry of Health...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 11:37 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Medical doctor Jamil Minnis, who is the son of former Bahamas Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, has been released on bail after he appeared in court on allegations of performing an abortion on a 15-year-old girl last...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 8:54 AM

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Bermuda's Premier David Burt says an investigation into the cyber attack that severely hampered the government's information systems in September has found circumstantial evidence that personal data may...

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