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Published:Friday | September 15, 2023 | 11:09 AM

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier of Bermuda David Burt Friday urged Bermudans to ensure their safety as the British Overseas Territory continues to feel the effects of Hurricane Lee that swiped past the island on Thursday. “I hope that you...

Published:Thursday | September 14, 2023 | 4:59 PM

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – The President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader, on Thursday  issued an order for the complete closure of the country's border with Haiti, encompassing land, air, and sea routes,...

Published:Thursday | September 14, 2023 | 2:12 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti's government announced that it met Wednesday with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a recent threat by that country's president to close all borders in response to a row...

Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2023 | 3:17 PM

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda government on Wednesday announced the closure of public schools over the next two days, as the British Overseas Territory as the center of Hurricane Lee is due to pass west of the island and then...

Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2023 | 1:58 PM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Bahamas health authorities have confirmed the death of a nine-year-old boy from dengue fever as the country experiences an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. “He presented with a viral type illness but did...

Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2023 | 9:26 AM

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda Weather Service has placed the island under a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Lee, with winds in excess of 115 miles per hour, will begin to affect the British Overseas Territory early on Thursday. The...

Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2023 | 5:57 PM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government is predicting that at least 3,000 new jobs will be created there over the next three years as a result of an estimated six billion dollars in investments over the same period. “Overall, if...

Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2023 | 11:35 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2023 | 8:30 AM

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...

Published:Monday | September 11, 2023 | 12:52 PM

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...

Published:Monday | September 11, 2023 | 10:33 AM

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...

Published:Monday | September 11, 2023 | 8:23 AM

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...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 5:37 PM

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...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 3:15 PM

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,...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 12:35 PM

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...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 11:24 AM

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...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 9:19 AM

​​​​​​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...

Published:Friday | September 8, 2023 | 8:47 AM

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...

Published:Thursday | September 7, 2023 | 3:22 PM

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...

Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 8:12 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | September 5, 2023 | 4:13 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | September 5, 2023 | 12:14 PM

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...

Published:Tuesday | September 5, 2023 | 9:15 AM

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...

Published:Monday | September 4, 2023 | 1:14 PM

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...

Published:Monday | September 4, 2023 | 10:01 AM

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...

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