BRIDGETOWN (CMC) The second president of Barbados, Jeffrey Bostic, was sworn in early Sunday during the 59th anniversary of Independence and the fourth as a republic. A former minister of health and a highly decorated military officer in the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has sought to defend her decision not to inform the country as to the installation of US radar systems in Tobago even as she criticised the former administration for leaving the borders...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Officials from the agriculture and health ministries have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm here, and immediate coordinated action is being taken to address the situation. In a press release, the...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Director general of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Retired Lt Co. Egbert Field says Guyana’s airspace is open despite United States President Donald Trump’s position that the airspace “above and surrounding Venezuela...
BASSETERRE (CMC): The premier of Nevis, Mark Brantley, has reassured residents that no new taxes will be introduced in the upcoming year. He made the statement as he responded to questions at his his recent monthly press conference. He explained...
CASTRIES (CMC): St Lucians head to the polls today to elect a new government with the leaders of the two main political parties seeking both divine intervention and the goodwill of the voters in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Prime...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): Officials from the agriculture and health ministries have confirmed that H5 avian flu has been detected in animals on a farm here, and immediate coordinated action is being taken to address the situation. In a press release, the...
CARACAS (AP): English phrases once bothered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so much that he urged his State of the Union address audience to phase out words like skatepark and fashion. But, as the White House now ponders whether the US...
ISTANBUL (AP): The Turkish government has condemned Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Black Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said the attacks on the Kairos and Virat vessels happened inside Turkey’...
TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges – seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu, who has been at...
HONG KONG (AP): The death toll in Hong Kong’s apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift...
MEDANC (AP): Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have...
The New Democratic Party (NDP) has secured victory in the 2025 national elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines, defeating the Dr Ralph Gonsalves-led United Labour Party (ULP). Dr Godwin Friday, the NDP leader, will become the island’s...
A deadly crash has forced UPS Airlines to ground a fleet of planes for inspections and possible repairs that could last through the peak delivery season, the company said Wednesday in an internal memo. The airline grounded its McDonnell Douglas...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Wednesday defended its decision to pilot legislation allowing for homeowners to defend their properties, even by the use of deadly force, as the opposition warned that the...
Two West Virginia National Guard members who were shot Wednesday near the White House have died, the state's governor said. Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed their deaths in a social media post. "We are in ongoing contact with federal...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia said Tuesday he planned to scrap a ream of taxes, in one of his first moves since becoming the nation's first conservative leader in nearly two decades in a bid to rescue a crisis-stricken...
LONDON (AP) — The BBC's chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by US President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster's impartiality was being undermined from within its...
GENEVA (AP) Talks between Ukraine and its Western allies on a US-proposed peace plan to end Russia's invasion got underway in Geneva on Sunday, Ukrainian officials. The head of the Ukrainian delegation, presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak...
BELEM (AP): Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the water ways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were supposed to give them a voice like never before at the...
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) launched at COP30 on November 13 the Caribbean Multi-Guarantor Debt-for-Resilience Joint Initiative, a...
The Government of Grenada will host the Connected Caribbean Summit 2025 (CCS2025) from December 1–5 at the Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grand Anse. The summit will bring together more than 200 senior leaders from across the Caribbean and the...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians, signalling a broader strategy since he ordered preparations for possible military action and...
NABUMALI (AP): Among the most sensitive family disputes Moses Kutoi mediates are those involving upset men questioning why some of their children don’t resemble them. For the Ugandan clan leader attuned to the wisdom of his ancestors, the matter...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A detention order has been issued for a woman who posted an image of Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s private residence on social media and urged Venezuela to target it, the Trinidad Guardian...
