BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Jamaica and 17 other countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have launched the Alliance for Security, Justice and Development, an unprecedented alliance which unites governments, multilateral...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Thursday dismissed a newspaper story indicating that Port of Spain signed an agreement with the United States allowing America to deploy forces to Trinidad and Tobago in...
NEW YORK, CMC – Immigration advocates in New York are expressing outrage and alarm over proposed plans by the incoming Donald Trump administration to revoke a United States federal policy that has restricted Immigration and Customs...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's main international airport reopened on Wednesday to commercial flights, one month after it closed for the second time this year because of gang violence. Haitian soldiers and police, bolstered by...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is expressing concern at the increase in cases of dengue, Oropouche, and avian influenza this year, but emphasised effective strategies to control the outbreaks and mitigate their...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Belize's Prime Minister John Briceño has led the country in expressing sympathy to the families of the 10 people who died as a result of a vehicular accident, urging motorists and others to “utilise...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Police say they have seized more than US$15.3 million worth of illegal drugs and arrested seven people, including two Colombians, after a plane crashed in Spring Point, Acklins, last weekend. The authorities said...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Police in Suriname have arrested a 20-year-old man after he tried to mail 92 grams of cocaine hidden in a Christmas cake. Police said that the man, with the initials RZ, was arrested by the Narcotics Brigade...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Investigations are continuing following a report of a break-in at the House of Parliament in St Lucia on Saturday morning. According to police reports, an ancillary staff member discovered the...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic announced Friday that they confiscated nearly 9.5 tons of cocaine, the largest drug seizure in the country's history. The $250 million worth of drugs were...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A court in the Bahamas has again denied bail to Jaico Choute, who is accused of the murder of former opposition Free National Movement legislator Donald Saunders. Justice of Appeal president, Jon Issacs, told Choute...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 rocked Trinidad and Tobago just before midnight on Thursday. The Seismic Research Center of the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies reported that the quake,...
HAVANA (AP) — After a nationwide blackout left millions without electricity for several hours in Cuba, the power grid was restored Thursday, authorities said, adding that scheduled power outages will now resume. The latest blackout...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The government of the Bahamas on Thursday rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration in the United States to take in deported migrants. As the president-elect pledges to tackle immigration once he...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Prime Minister of the Bahamas Phillip Davis on Wednesday said he had accepted the resignation of Police Commissioner, Clayton Fernander, as the fallout continues from the indictment by US law enforcement...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Wednesday announced the appointment of Barbadian Daniel Best as its new president, replacing St Lucia-born economist, Dr Hyginus 'Gene' Leon, who...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A High Court judge in the Bahamas has sentence a father of 10 children to eight years in prison after he agreed to a plea deal for molesting a 15-year-old child in 2019. Justice Joyann Ferguson Pratt sentenced...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, Tuesday said that climate change poses an acute threat to the Caribbean and that the costs for resilience building in the region...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Suriname's Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation, Albert Ramdin, on Friday, sent a protest note to the government of Guyana, following reports that the...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations meteorological agency says the active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Saturday, having left a trail of devastation, casualties and massive economic losses. On Friday, the World...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says Caribbean countries will receive US$18.4 billion in remittances, with a two per cent growth, similar to that observed in 2023. The IDB is projecting that remittances to...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Thursday said he will be travelling to Barbados joining “certain” regional leaders for a weekend meeting with a high level United States delegation. Speaking at a news...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana says it will provide an estimated GYD$123 million to support CARICOM countries as part of its humanitarian efforts in the Caribbean region and further afield. The funding is part of the GYD$84 billion in...
CYPRUS , CMC – The Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has called on all member churches to pray and for Christian solidarity with the people of Haiti. In a statement following its just concluded meeting in...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean on Monday joins the international community in observing the annual 16 Days of Activism campaign against a sobering report that last year, 40 women and girls died every day at the hands of their...
