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Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 2:18 PM

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) has launched an investigation following an incident last Friday, in which a Delta 737-900 aircraft from the United States managed to hit and knock over a stairs...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 10:06 AM

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cutter Bernard C Webber repatriated 33 migrants to Haiti on Monday following an interdiction of a “migrant venture” near Fort Pierce Inlet, Florida. The US Coast...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 4:40 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A fiery debate over public health and personal rights gripped Puerto Rico this week, intensifying on Wednesday as legislators clashed with medical experts. The debate began earlier this month after the...

Published:Wednesday | February 14, 2024 | 11:46 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A stalled marijuana law in the United States Virgin Islands got a big push Tuesday after an advisory board approved a list of proposed rules and regulations that would govern the recreational use of...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 6:01 PM

KINGSTOWN, CMC – The police in St Vincent have charged the father of the one-year-old baby girl, whose throat was slit last Saturday, after he reportedly damaged the home where the alleged killer lives. The man, Lenroy Robertson,...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 12:11 PM

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Police in St Kitts have charged a 35-year-old mother with two counts of murder after her two children were found dead last Friday. Police said that Colander Caines has been charged with the murders of her four-year...

Published:Tuesday | February 13, 2024 | 8:58 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti's renowned rum has become the newest victim of violent gangs vying to control a growing number of businesses and territory in the troubled Caribbean nation. At least eight hectares (19.8 acres...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 2:49 PM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging people to protect themselves against the adverse health effects of a Saharan dust plume covering many parts of the Caribbean. In a statement,...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 1:54 PM

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC –  More than 3000 seismic activities or tremors have been recorded by earthquake monitoring stations in Grenada because of the elevation in seismicity at the Kick 'em Jenny Submarine Volcano, the...

Published:Monday | February 12, 2024 | 9:10 AM

MASSACHUSETTS, CMC – A former Antigua and Barbuda Olympian and longtime track coach, who used his status to abuse young boys, will spend what a judge said would be “probably a life sentence” after he pleaded guilty to 12 counts of...

Published:Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 5:02 PM

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC –The Trinidad and Tobago government Sunday said it is not ruling out seeking overseas assistance in dealing with an oil spill that has impacted Tobago. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who led a ministerial delegation...

Published:Sunday | February 11, 2024 | 11:44 AM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The police have launched a manhunt for a resident from the town of Rose Hall in St Vincent who allegedly slit the throat of a one-year-old infant on Saturday.  The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) was...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 3:47 PM

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Agencies of the Central State Administration in Cuba have started the drafting process of a report on the effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba, between...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 12:38 PM

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands has been removed from the  Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of countries that are required to improve their anti-financial crime regimes. This marks the first time in...

Published:Friday | February 9, 2024 | 8:55 PM

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it will continue to advocate for the country to be included among regional nations whose citizens are allowed to travel to the Schengen Area in Europe visa-free. Passports holders of ...

Published:Friday | February 9, 2024 | 2:39 PM

MIAMI, CMC -Former British Virgin Islands (BVI) premier, Andrew Fahie, faces the possibility of life imprisonment after he was found guilty late Thursday evening on drug and racketeering related charges. The sentencing is scheduled for April 29,...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 10:50 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged calm in a public address early Thursday following three days of violent protests that have paralysed the country as thousands of protesters demand his resignation...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 8:41 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — ExxonMobil said it plans to explore for oil and gas in a disputed area off South America's coast where the Venezuelan military had previously expelled two United States oil companies. The move...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 8:29 PM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Ministry of Health in Trinidad and Tobago has been ordered by a court to pay legal costs to a civil and human rights group that brought a lawsuit against it for information on the adverse reports of...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 12:32 PM

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – The leader of the Progressive National Force (FNP),  in the Dominican Republic, Vinicio Castillo Semán, has called on nationals who are in Haiti to leave the French-speaking CARICOM ...

Published:Wednesday | February 7, 2024 | 9:28 AM

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Tuesday said Grenada will be supporting Ghana's foreign affairs minister to become the next Secretary General of the Commonwealth when the election is held in October. The...

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 9:12 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 rocked Trinidad and Tobago on Monday night. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine campus of the University...

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 8:59 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has warned teachers who are on the second day of a nationwide industrial action on Tuesday that they would not be paid for participating in what it termed an illegal strike. “The Ministry...

Published:Monday | February 5, 2024 | 3:08 PM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Judiciary says it wishes to “record its strong objection to the broad sweeping and totally unsupported claims” made by the German-based Transparency International (TI), and...

Published:Monday | February 5, 2024 | 10:15 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Teachers' Union (GTU) on Monday said it is assessing the response to its call for a general strike to press demands for increased salaries for teachers. The industrial action comes at a time when...

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