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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The death toll from last week's fire at the dormitory of a secondary school in Guyana climbed to 20 on Tuesday after a 13-year-old school girl died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Doctors...
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A local human rights groups says violence by armed gangs in the French-speaking CARICOM country has declined significantly following the emergence of a vigilante group, known as Bwa Kale, in April. The Centre...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Haiti is among 18 “hotspot” countries named by two United Nations organisations where hunger is set to worsen as fighting is putting people at risk of starvation. In a report published Monday, the Food and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Magistrate Sunil Scarce Monday adjourned to July 4 the case against a 15-year-old girl charged with 19 counts of murder arising from last week's fire at the dormitory at Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana. The...
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, CMC – Police in Guyana on Sunday said that a secondary school student who allegedly caused the death of 19 of her schoolmates by setting the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School ablaze last Monday, will be...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, will meet with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders early next month in the Bahamas. Government Press Secretary Clint Watson said that Harris, who will be the highest US...
MARIEL, Cuba (AP) — Rosa López, a 59-year-old housewife, lit a charcoal stove to boil sweet potatoes and prepare scrambled eggs for her grandchildren. The gas cylinders she normally uses to cook her meals have not been available for...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Police in Guyana conferred Wednesday with prosecutors on what charges to bring against the main teenage suspect in this week's fire that destroyed a girl's dormitory at a school, killing 18 students and a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Acting Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken, is assuring the Guyanese public that the outcome of the investigation into Monday's fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 students will be made public, even as...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Secretary General of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Dr Carla Barnett, says the body has received with great sorrow the shocking news of the deadly fire that razed the dormitory at...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States government is urging Americans that they should “consider departing Haiti now” as it issued a Level 4 advisory for the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. “Do not travel...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – At least 14 bodies have been pulled out of the dormitory at the Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana that was destroyed by an early morning blaze on Monday, resulting in at least 20 children being killed. ...
PHILADELPHIA, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia has detained nationals from Haiti and the Dominican Republic among 29 noncitizens with...
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says its crews have repatriated and transferred 169 migrants to Cuba and the Bahamas, making it known that the maritime borders to the United States are closed to irregular and illegal migration. The...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The governments of Cuba and Russia agreed to boost the development of tourism when representatives of both countries signed cooperation accords during a bilateral meeting in Havana. The meeting was part of the 20th...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sir Gerald Watt, has suspended the parliamentary representative for the constituency of St Peter, Asot Michael, for the next three sittings. According to Sir...
