PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC - A 19-year-old man in Suriname remains in police custody after he was arrested for distributing pornographic photos and videos of his 20-year-old former girlfriend. Police said that the woman, whom it identified as KA,...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a colonel and nine officers accused of stealing weapons and ammunition from the police department's armoury and illegally selling them to people...
NEW YORK, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) on Thursday night led a rally on New York State's Capitol strongly opposing United States President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda that includes Haitian...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force say they are aware of WhatsApp scams that have affected several members of the public. The police force said its White Collar Crime Unit (WCCU) has found that...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The High Court in Guyana has awarded Opposition parliamentarian David Patterson GYD$1 million in damages for being prevented from leaving the country last year. In her ruling on Friday, Chief Justice Roxane George-...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Tropical Storm Sara is on track to begin affecting Belize on Sunday and some strengthening is expected as the storm reaches maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (mph) when it makes landfall in the CARICOM ...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – Amid Haiti's ongoing humanitarian crisis and escalating violence, both government and opposition senators in the Dominican Republic have expressed disagreement with a complete border closure...
BAKU, CMC – The World Bank says it has expanded its lifeline to Caribbean and other small countries struggling to rebuild from disasters, allowing them to postpone loan and interest repayments after a catastrophic event, so governments can...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Police in Grenada on Wednesday confirmed that the body of a woman was discovered in a vehicle that was swept away by floods caused by excessive rainfall on Tuesday. Head of the Community Relations Department,...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Foreign Affairs Minister for the Bahamas, Fred Mitchell, says members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) and nationals in Haiti, can leave the French-speaking CARICOM country at any time without...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited US airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended flights to Port-au-...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 12, CMC – Police in Guyana say they are conducting a “thorough investigation” into an early morning fire on Tuesday that claimed the lives of five family members in Corentyne, Berbice. “The Guyana...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's main airport remained closed on Tuesday, a day after violence erupted as the country swore in its new prime minister in a politically tumultuous transition. Life in much of the capital was frozen...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A transitionary council created to re-establish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday firing the country's interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is denying reports of a shortage of pig semen in the country warning that such claims could cause unnecessary alarm within the agricultural sector. “We want to make it absolutely clear that there is...
NEW YORK, CMC – The Caribbean-American community in New York early Wednesday expressed profound disappointment and frustration over the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Trump, the 45th US...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Rafael strengthened into a Category 2 storm on Wednesday just hours before it was forecast to make landfall on Wednesday in western Cuba. It was another stroke of bad news for Cuba, which has been...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Police Commissioner Atlee Patrick Rodney has hinted at the possibility of foreign investigators assisting in the investigation into the death of independent legislator, Asot Michael, whose body was found in...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 was felt in three Caribbean countries on Monday night, the Trinidad-based Seisic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has reported. It said...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A private primary school in Guyana on Friday released a video in an attempt to dispel suggestions that one of its teachers had failed to offer assistance to a six-year-old student who died after swallowing a...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Cuba grapples with blackouts and a deepening economic crisis, Mexico has sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in just a span of days, oil shipment data provided to The Associated Press...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Scotiabank in Trinidad has announced new measures for providing foreign exchange to its customers, saying they are necessary “as we continue to navigate the foreign exchange considerations”...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands government is on the brink of collapse as three Cabinet ministers and a parliamentary secretary quit, leaving the ruling coalition without a working majority. On Thursday, Deputy...
The St Vincent and the Grenadines Parliament has given the nod to legislation allowing public servants to contest national or local elections and suffer no loss of employment or benefits if they are unsuccessful at the polls.
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – An attorney in Grenada, who successfully filed a constitutional motion calling for the High Court to declare flogging a criminal offence, now wants it to recommend at less EC$50,000 in compensation to men who...
