CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC – Venezuela Friday said it will continue with plans to hold the referendum called by the Electoral Branch at the request of the Parliament on Sunday regarding the ownership of the mineral and forest-rich county of...
THE HAGUE, CMC – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday ruled that Venezuela must not take any action to seize the mineral and forest-rich county of Essequibo in Guyana based on its upcoming December 3 referendum. Both Guyana and...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dominican-born Dr Carissa F. Etienne died Friday. She was 71. She reportedly passed away due to heart failure. Etienne, who recently retired after 10 years as...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries are joining the global community on Friday in observing World AIDS Day with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – A 37-year-old Canadian woman and her five-year-old son who were visiting Antigua on a family vacation drowned on Thursday morning at Devil's Bridge. According to police reports, the woman's 38-...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Notorious coup leader Guy Philippe returned to Haiti on Thursday after the United States government repatriated him, sparking concerns that his presence could unleash further upheaval in a country...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says its air and surface units combined efforts with a US Customs and Border Protection aircrew and a Dominican Republic Navy patrol boat to rescue 60 Caribbean migrants from a 35-...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the United States Virgin Islands after authorities there reported finding high levels of lead and copper in the tap water on St Croix. The report...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – The prosecution on Wednesday withdrew the charge against a 58-year old vendor who had been accused of throwing missiles on August 5, 2021 during a protest against the St Vincent government's COVID-19 vaccine...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The St Kitts-Nevis government has launched a plastic ban campaign to raise public awareness and support for its agenda towards banning, phasing out, and replacing selected single-use Styrofoam and polystyrene...
Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 10:46 AM
SURAMA, Guyana (AP) — Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana gathered recently to bid on a bounty of bananas, squash and other produce during a community event. They sang hymns and rang a bell...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) says it has reported its industrial dispute with its pilots to the Minister of Labour, even as it said it “remains committed to a constructive and transparent dialogue...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Gang violence in Haiti is on the rise with new alliances being forged and expansion into rural areas previously considered safe, according to a new report issued by the United Nations on Tuesday. The report was...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rattled parts of Barbados on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Trinidad-based University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre said...
NEW YORK, CMC – A new report is warning that several Caribbean countries including Jamaica without shoreline defences could permanently lose five per cent or more of their cities to sea level rises by the end of the century. It cited Kingston...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government has allocated EC$1.8 million for the disbursement of an EC$600 one-off payment to public sector pensioners. A government statement said an estimated 3,105 pensioners will benefit from the...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A radio disc jockey died Sunday in Trinidad when the car in which he was travelling flipped before it crashed into a light pole along the recently opened San Fernando to Point Fortin Archibald-De Leon...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda government says it is moving ahead with plans to join the regional integration movement, CARICOM, after being given the green light from the United Kingdom to do so. Deputy Premier, Walter Roban, in a...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has approved a mandatory programme for expelled students to transition to the Military-Led Academic Training (MiLAT) Programme. Education Minister, Dr Nyan Gadsby-...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says it has noted the continued increase, over the past six months, in reports of suspected and confirmed cases of dengue in the Caribbean...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says teams from the United States Department of Defense will arrive in Guyana from next week amid the ongoing tension between the CARICOM country and Venezuela over the ownership of...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Clarence Henry, has reiterated a call for an “independent and comprehensive” analysis of claims being made by regional...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC – The Nurses and Midwives Council in Grenada is warning persons against participating in and completing education programmes at institutions that are not certified by the competent authority. In a statement,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian law enforcement authorities said a man belonging to a violent gang accused of kidnapping four Americans has been extradited to the United States. Haiti's National Police said Tuesday that Jhon...
President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the US Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on St Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency...
