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...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC - A 61-year-old man who was being treated at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in St Vincent for stab wounds was found dead near the medical institution after discharging himself. Police said that they responded to a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A government commission in Guyana tasked with investigating a fire that killed 20 children at an Indigenous boarding school found multiple errors and systematic failures. Calling for reforms to avoid a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Six nuns were kidnapped Friday in Haiti as they travelled on a bus through the capital, according to religious leaders. The nuns were accompanied by an undetermined number of unidentified people on the bus who...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Health authorities have confirmed the first case of the JN.I variant of COVID-19 as Trinidad and Tobago records an increase in deaths associated with the virus in recent weeks. A statement from the Ministry...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyanese government says it is not considering an amnesty for people with illegal guns saying it does not believe that the initiative would be a success. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at a news...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti's capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack, with residents fearful of the violence...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The owner of Blue Adventures, a Bahamian company that operates a diving experience, has launched an investigation following an incident in which 10-year-old boy from Maryland in the United States was attacked by a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has been reliably informed that senior officials of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) are on administrative leave. The sources could not provide further...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — With no date in sight for when it will be safe to drink tap water again on the island of St Croix, officials in the US Virgin Islands announced Wednesday night that they would distribute water filters and...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – A former kitchen supervisor at the Sandals Grande Antigua resort has won his case for unfair dismissal after the resort fired him in 2015 alleging that he had stolen cases of shrimp and salmon. The...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The police in Guyana have confirmed that six children were rescued late Tuesday after the canoe in which they were returning home to Venezuela, sank in the Cuyuni River. Police said that the children were students of...
