PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Health authorities say they have launched “an immediate” investigation into the disappearance of 300 vials of fentanyl injection that have been reported as unaccounted for, following a delivery discrepancy to one of...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Friday said there would be no Independence Day Parade on August 31, due to the existing state of emergency (SoE). August 31 is Independence Day and it marks the anniversary of...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): President Irfaan Ali says thousands of overseas-based Guyanese nurses, who left for higher salaries, could begin returning home to take up lucrative job offers. Late Wednesday, during a campaign meeting ahead of the September 1...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico sent 26 alleged cartel figures to face justice in the United States because the Trump administration requested them and Mexico did not want them to continue running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons, officials...
SAN JUAN (AP): Officials in the northern Caribbean warned Thursday of heavy rains and dangerous swells as Tropical Storm Erin approached the region. The storm is expected to remain over open waters and move north-northeast of islands including...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States government Wednesday said it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on Grenadian government officials, and their family members, for their complicity in the Cuban government’s medical mission scheme. The US...
BRUSSELS (AP): European leaders have praised President Donald Trump for agreeing to allow vital US backup for a force they are mustering to police any future peace in Ukraine – a move that vastly improves the chances of an operation that could...
MANILA (AP): The United States is discussing the possible deployment of more missile launchers to the Philippines to strengthen deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea and other Asian security hotspots, but no final decision...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean nursing and other health stakeholders met this week against the backdrop of a critical shortage of nurses in the Caribbean, Delegates attending the three-day 52nd annual general meeting of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): A man who was found guilty of double murder in 1988 but had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 1991 will be re-sentenced after a High Court declared that his commutation by the Mercy Committee was...
NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A Tropical storm watch is in effect for the islands of Antigua, St Martin and St Barthelemy, Saba and St Eustatius as Tropical Storm Erin continues to gather strength. Interests in the northern Leeward Islands,...
TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada started cancelling flights on Thursday ahead of a possible work stoppage by flight attendants that could impact hundreds of thousands of travellers. A complete shutdown of the country's largest airline threatens to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Heavily armed gang members killed two Haitian police officers in the latest deadly attack on law enforcement in the troubled Caribbean country, officials said Wednesday. The officers attacked late Tuesday were members of...
ROME (AP): A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people and leaving about a dozen missing, the Italian coast guard and UN agencies said. Sixty...
BERLIN (AP): President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska...
GRETNA, Virginia (AP) — Multiple law enforcement officers have been shot in southern Virginia, a congressman said Wednesday. John McGuire, who represents Virginia's 5th congressional district, said in a post on X that his thoughts and prayers...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States government on Wednesday said it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on Grenadian government officials, and their family members, for their complicity in the Cuban regime’s medical mission scheme. The...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): For years, low-quality seeds have been a concern in Haiti, with continual climate shocks and political insecurity adding to the existing challenges that farmers face in their attempts to grow food. Instead of having seeds...
CAIRO (AP): Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched attacks Monday in a famine-stricken displacement camp outside of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur province, killing 40 people, local rights groups said. The Emergency...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United States and China clashed over the Panama Canal at the United Nations on Monday, with the US warning that Beijing’s influence over the key waterway could threaten global trade and security and China calling US...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Members of Guatemala’ s two largest gangs — Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha — staged riots in two Guatemalan prisons on Tuesday, demanding the return of 10 leaders who were sent to another prison and placed in solitary...
LONDON (CMC): Guyana is the lone CARICOM country named in 15 new countries under the United Kingdom’s ‘deport now, appeal later’ scheme as the European country seeks to send foreigners who commit crimes in the UK back to their home countries...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders and a US citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate US sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the US...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has been selected as the candidate of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) to contest the North Central Windward constituency in the next general election, widely expected this year, ahead of the...
