NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC -The Bahamas government has presented a US$3,54 billion budget with no new taxes to Parliament with Prime Minister Phillip Davis saying many components of this fiscal package carry forward and build on the measures that his...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – A Surinamese politician who is also a member of the ruling party, Joel 'Bordo' Martinus, was arrested in Brazil on Wednesday. This was confirmed by the Public Prosecution Service (OM) of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — United Nations development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of people packed into a sweltering church in Haiti's capital on Tuesday to mourn Judes Montis, a mission director killed by gang members who also fatally shot an American couple that...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lightning struck a beach in the northern coastal town of Isabela during inclement weather Monday, injuring three children, one seriously, Puerto Rican police said. The children, whose ages ranged from 7 to 12,...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged countries of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean to strengthen preventive measures against dengue fever. In an epidemiological alert issued on Friday, PAHO pointed...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands (AP) — An American arrested in the Caribbean for illegally carrying ammunition received a suspended sentence Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and his spokesman said...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers have renewed calls for the United States to remove Cuba from its list of states that are “not cooperating fully” in the fight against terrorism. A statement...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A man in Trinidad who killed his second common-law wife seven months after he was released from prison for killing his first has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, with the judge ordering that he be put on...
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says Trinidad and Tobago expects to receive “a significant sum” in compensation for the ongoing oil spill clean-up in Tobago. The hydrocarbon spill, which was first spotted...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Talks between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education for a 20% interim salary increase pending final negotiations and the need for a fixed timeframe for mediation ended Monday evening in a...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Parliament in Bermuda has approved legislation providing for stringent punishment, including life imprisonment, for anyone convicted for offences that cause “a significant risk of serious damage to human...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March. The reopening of the...
CALIFORNIA, CMC – A 41-year-old St Kitts-Nevis citizen has been arrested for the role he allegedly played in a scheme to launder proceeds from cryptocurrency investment scams. According to the indictment unsealed in the...
American Airlines is expanding its winter schedule with eight new routes to Latin America and the Caribbean, the carrier has said. The new routes include a Saturday service from Charlotte International Airport to St Vincent and the Grenadines and...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Voters in the Dominican Republic are casting ballots Sunday in general elections likely to reinforce the government's crackdown on its shared border with Haiti and the hundreds of thousands of...
BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts, arrested a 33-year-old unlawfully present Dominican Republic national convicted of US...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, Ulrika Richardson, Friday called for greater protection and assistance for people living in areas affected by the ongoing gang violence in the French-speaking CARICOM...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A weeklong search for a new prime minister of Haiti has flooded the inboxes of a transitional presidential council with dozens of candidates jostling to become the country's next leader. Political...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Public Hospitals Authority in the Bahamas says tests have been carried out on eight students who were taken to hospital on Thursday after lightning struck a tree on the campus of the Bishop Michael Eldon Anglican...
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has condemned a new United States rule that solidifies the “Recent Arrivals” (RA) Docket process aimed at reducing the time it takes to decide the fate of newly-arrived...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups on Thursday signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya, described as key step in efforts to...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – Under the newly revised immigration policy of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), community involvement is now a mandatory criteria for eligibility for Permanent Residence and Belonger status. A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Cuba Wednesday from the State Department's short list of countries that it deems less than fully cooperative against violent groups. In a statement, the State...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 15 – Former government minister Nigel Dharamlall is due to return to a police station on Wednesday as investigations continue into allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman. Dharamlall, who was released on $500,...
