MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda early Saturday as residents continued to hunker down. The hurricane is now exhibiting a large rain-free centre region that is just about to...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago authorities on Friday said that efforts to refloat the vessel that overturned off the Coast of Cove in Tobago have been delayed due to adverse weather alerts and threats associated with the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto charged toward Bermuda on Friday as officials in the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean prepared to open shelters and close government offices. The Category 2 storm...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Friday said it has shared over US$300,000 in forfeited criminal assets with Bonaire, in recognition of the Dutch Caribbean island's assistance to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto barrelled toward Bermuda on Thursday after leaving hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico without power or water as sweltering heat enveloped the US territory, raising concerns about...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police have shot and killed six people, including one woman, in Freeport in west central Trinidad. The police said those killed were allegedly involved in two home robberies in the Central area within the last...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in the US territory without power as it threatened to become a major storm en route...
BOSTON, CMC – United States law enforcement officials say they have detained a 26-year-old Haitian national accused of aggravated rape of a child in a Rockland, Massachusetts, migrant shelter. They said that the Haitian had been arrested on...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico on Wednesday and left hundreds of thousands of people without power in the US territory as it threatened to strengthen into a major hurricane en route...
SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Tuesday said that the region's economies will expand by 1.8 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent in 2025. ECLAC released its annual report titled...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto battered the northeast Caribbean on Tuesday as it took aim at Puerto Rico, where officials shuttered schools, opened shelters and helped move dozens of the US territory's endangered...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was felt in several Caribbean countries on Tuesday, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies has...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The centre of Tropical Storm Ernesto was located near the French island of Guadeloupe and the Leeward islands on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour (mph). “Gradual strengthening is...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters on Monday issued a tropical storm warning for several islands in the northeast Caribbean as a disturbance approaches the region. The warning was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, St Kitts,...
Former premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Andrew Alturo Fahie has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after he was convicted of cocaine trafficking and money laundering. US district judge Kathleen Williams sentenced Fahie to 135...
NEW YORK, CMC – The United States Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) says a Queens, New York, woman has been indicted for allegedly defrauding 10 Caribbean nationals out of US$73,000 by promising to improve their...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President of the Council of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Neil Singh, says a number of Venezuelan migrants are performing duties in the country as medical practitioners without the necessary...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has appointed Jamaican-born jurist Winston Anderson to act as President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Mitchell, an attorney, who is also the...
FLORIDA, CMC -The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) says the regional tourism industry has shown extraordinary resilience in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, with data revealing a rapid rebound in travel bookings. Hurricane Beryl, the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in St Vincent and the Grenadines, three years after the last outbreak claimed at least seven lives, most of them children. The Ministry of Health,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The United States says the security situation in Haiti is “unpredictable and dangerous”, and warned its nationals to not travel to the CARICOM country. In an advisory, Washington said it has...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC - Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Thursday defended the decision to dismiss Youth and Sports Minister Jonathan LaCrette from his cabinet, saying he had lost confidence in him. Mitchell told a...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Roosevelt Skerrit-led government has revoked the citizenship of 68 people who were granted citizenship through Dominica's Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) between 2020 and 2022. The revocation notice...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The High Court in Barbados on Monday ordered a Jamaican national, Onickey Orain Reid, to pay a fine of BD$15,000, after apologising for being caught with a firearm. Failure to pay the fine will result in him...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Health authorities are reporting an increase in the detected cases of COVID-19 over the last four weeks, including three deaths at two health institutions in Barbados. A statement from the Ministry of Health and Wellness...
