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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook (CariCOF) says over the next three months, the cool season will feature more comfortable temperatures and humidity. It said that the period December to February next...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) helicopter that went down on Wednesday was spotted Thursday morning and a rescue team was being inserted into the mountainous and forested area, the defence force said in a statement....
GENEVA, CMC – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on Caribbean and other countries to increase taxes on alcohol and sugary sweetened beverages (SSBs). In releasing new data earlier this week, the WHO said that a low global...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Wednesday said that it has initiated a search and rescue operation to locate a missing helicopter carrying three crew members and four passengers. In a brief statement, the GDF said...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Guyana's President Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from a potential incursion by Venezuela, which has ordered its state-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean continues to be rattled by earthquakes in recent days, with the latest occurring on Wednesday with a 4.4 magnitude tremor affecting Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and St Lucia. The...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will take the border issue with Venezuela to the United Nations on Wednesday after it described as “unsettling developments” in relation to the “unlawful claim”...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A 44-year-old American woman died after being bitten by a shark on Monday, the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) Public Affairs and Communications Department has confirmed. Media reports said that the woman, a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Monday described as “misinformation” a video circulating on social media showing the hoisting of a Venezuelan flag along the western border in Essequibo replacing...
GEORETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana Sunday urged the Venezuelan government to “show maturity and responsibility” as Caracas moves ahead with a planned “consultative referendum” regarding the ownership of the mineral-rich...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Several earthquakes were reported in the Caribbean overnight into early Saturday with the strongest having a magnitude of 6.0 that was recorded northeast of Guadeloupe. According to the Trinidad-based UWI...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti held former rebel leader Guy Philippe on Friday at a police station where he remained a day after the United States repatriated him to Haiti, his lawyer said. Philippe is a convicted money...
CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC – Venezuela Friday said it will continue with plans to hold the referendum called by the Electoral Branch at the request of the Parliament on Sunday regarding the ownership of the mineral and forest-rich county of...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dominican-born Dr Carissa F. Etienne died Friday. She was 71. She reportedly passed away due to heart failure. Etienne, who recently retired after 10 years as...
THE HAGUE, CMC – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday ruled that Venezuela must not take any action to seize the mineral and forest-rich county of Essequibo in Guyana based on its upcoming December 3 referendum. Both Guyana and...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries are joining the global community on Friday in observing World AIDS Day with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)...
