SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC –The Trinidad and Tobago government Sunday said it is not ruling out seeking overseas assistance in dealing with an oil spill that has impacted Tobago. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who led a ministerial delegation...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The police have launched a manhunt for a resident from the town of Rose Hall in St Vincent who allegedly slit the throat of a one-year-old infant on Saturday. The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) was...
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Agencies of the Central State Administration in Cuba have started the drafting process of a report on the effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba, between...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of countries that are required to improve their anti-financial crime regimes. This marks the first time in...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it will continue to advocate for the country to be included among regional nations whose citizens are allowed to travel to the Schengen Area in Europe visa-free. Passports holders of ...
MIAMI, CMC -Former British Virgin Islands (BVI) premier, Andrew Fahie, faces the possibility of life imprisonment after he was found guilty late Thursday evening on drug and racketeering related charges. The sentencing is scheduled for April 29,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged calm in a public address early Thursday following three days of violent protests that have paralysed the country as thousands of protesters demand his resignation...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — ExxonMobil said it plans to explore for oil and gas in a disputed area off South America's coast where the Venezuelan military had previously expelled two United States oil companies. The move...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Ministry of Health in Trinidad and Tobago has been ordered by a court to pay legal costs to a civil and human rights group that brought a lawsuit against it for information on the adverse reports of...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – The leader of the Progressive National Force (FNP), in the Dominican Republic, Vinicio Castillo Semán, has called on nationals who are in Haiti to leave the French-speaking CARICOM ...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Tuesday said Grenada will be supporting Ghana's foreign affairs minister to become the next Secretary General of the Commonwealth when the election is held in October. The...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 rocked Trinidad and Tobago on Monday night. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Seismic Research Centre at the St Augustine campus of the University...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has warned teachers who are on the second day of a nationwide industrial action on Tuesday that they would not be paid for participating in what it termed an illegal strike. “The Ministry...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Judiciary says it wishes to “record its strong objection to the broad sweeping and totally unsupported claims” made by the German-based Transparency International (TI), and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Teachers' Union (GTU) on Monday said it is assessing the response to its call for a general strike to press demands for increased salaries for teachers. The industrial action comes at a time when...
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says agents recently apprehended 30 undocumented Caribbean migrants, including a Haitian juvenile, during two separate migrant smuggling incidents off...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – A Jamaican chef was recently arrested by the police in the British Virgin Islands for stealing a cell phone that belonged to a customer who visited the restaurant where he works. According to police reports,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 was felt in sections of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday afternoon. According to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Research Centre, the quake, with a depth...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel removed the country's economy minister on Friday, according to state media, following a delay in recently announced measures to increase the prices of fuel and transportation. Cuba...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Ambassador Dennis Francis, Friday warned that the global community is losing ground on peace, precisely when it is needed most. Addressing a joint briefing of...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A High Court judge in Barbados has ordered a father to pay BDS$15,000 in compensation to his daughter after he placed her hand on a lit stove burner as punishment for stealing almost six years ago. Justice Laurie-...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Construction of two private villas inside a national park in Barbuda has sparked the latest environmental legal fight between angry residents and wealthy foreigners seeking to develop the Caribbean island with...
DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of forcing four boys who lived in the institution to engage in sexual acts more than a decade ago will remain behind bars for now even though a magistrate judge...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities searched for migrants missing off Puerto Rico's northwest coast Thursday after a crowded boat capsized, killing at least two people. Puerto Rico police said officers rescued 20 occupants of the...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Surinamese Association of Journalists (SVJ) Wednesday expressed “serious concern” at the move by President Chandrikapersad Santokhi to ban a publication by a Dutch author and entrepreneur...
