PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC – The police in the Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) have disclosed that advanced ballistic analysis has shown one firearm linked to at least 32 murders, highlighting the growing threat of...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The authorities in the Bahamas have arrested three Bahamians adults and detained 45 undocumented Haitians as they uncovered a human smuggling attempt at a shipping yard on Bay Street in Nassau. The operation was...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The president of Haiti's transitional presidential council announced Thursday that he supports a United Nations peacekeeping mission to fight gang violence still overwhelming authorities. It was the first...
HAMILTON Bermuda, CMC -A 27-year-old man has been fined US$3,000 after he admitted to threatening to injure and being aggressive towards a flight crew member, as well as acting in a way “likely to endanger other persons” on an...
Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 8:18 PM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The president of the Dominican Republic warned Wednesday that his administration would take “drastic measures” to protect the country if a United Nation-backed mission in neighbouring Haiti targeting...
Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2024 | 10:38 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has been told that the tourism industry could bring one billion US dollars in revenue annually, if it repeals some of the “colonial” era laws that could be used to discriminate against same-sex...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — France has sent a group of special anti-riot police that's been banned for 65 years to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, where protesters have gathered despite the government barring demonstrations in...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad Sept 22, CMC – A 19-year-old member of the Coast Guard is among two men who will be charged with the murder of a man whose body was found earlier this month. A 22-year-old man is the other suspect in Diego Roper's...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Haiti on Saturday as the United Nations grapples with how to best support a peacekeeping mission of resource-strapped Kenyan and Jamaican forces, which have struggled to...
Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 11:35 AM
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it has been working very closely with the United States authorities, after Washington earlier this week named it and three other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among a list of...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The Department of Labour in St Lucia has embarked on a sensitisation campaign amid reports that some employers were moving to dismiss workers ahead of the planned October 1 implementation of the National Minimum...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A United Nations human rights expert warned on Friday that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a UN-backed mission targeting criminals in the troubled Caribbean country remains underfunded and...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has taken a significant step towards staging fresh presidential and legislative elections with the appointment of a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). Haiti has been without an elected head of state since...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 10:02 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council long sought by the international community to prepare the troubled Caribbean country for its first general elections since 2016...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 3:43 PM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has moved a step closer to establishing a law school after the Council for Legal Education (CLE) appointed a high-level sub-committee “to move the process forward,” Attorney General and Minister of...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 8:59 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago's Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has confirmed that he was robbed by two gunmen on Tuesday in his constituency in St Joseph, along the east west corridor. In a video posted on social...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) has written to the Government and the Opposition urging that prisoners be allowed to vote in elections in Guyana. “All qualified persons, whether held under...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados police have appealed to a person whom they regard as the main suspect to turn himself over to law enforcement authorities as they probe a deadly shooting over the weekend that left three people dead and...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A tanker truck carrying gasoline in Haiti on Saturday flipped and exploded, killing at least 15 people and seriously injuring 40 others, officials said. Prime Minister Garry Conille provided the figures in an X...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 10:46 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard on Friday said the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon recently rescued 11 Haitian migrants who were left stranded by smugglers on the uninhabited natural reserve of Monito...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A fresh wave of violence between rival gangs in one of the Haitian capital's poorest neighbourhoods was sparked by gunfire that broke out over a referee's call during a soccer match, a pastor and newspaper...
Published:Thursday | September 12, 2024 | 10:00 AM
CONNECTICUT, CMC – A Dominican national is among two men charged with offences stemming from the illegal trafficking and export of firearms and firearm components from the United States to the Caribbean island. A federal grand jury in...
Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 2:02 PM
NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean-American legislators in New York on Tuesday strongly denounced what they described as an anti-immigrant disinformation campaign surrounding Haitian migrants. They have accused Republican Vice Presidential...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Two prisoners were injured on Monday during a blaze at the Georgetown Prison when a fellow prisoner set fire to a mattress. According to the Guyana Prison Service (GPS), inmate Delon Blake, who is of...
BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a 50-year-old Dominican Republic national who was apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) has been sentenced to two and a half years in...
