Friday, April 26, 2024

Regional

Haiti’s Prime Minister resigns

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the country gripped by deadly gang violence. A recent outbreak of violence forced...

Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations

Dominica's High Court has overturned a ban on consensual same-sex relations in the Caribbean island nation. The court ruled...

Port of Spain General Hospital NICU baby death toll jumps to 18

Port of Spain - Two weeks after the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) announced that seven babies...

Jamaican cop killed in the line of duty

KINGSTON – The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has described as “a very sad moment” the death of police...

Political parties lash out at Haiti PM over council limbo

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — The Haitian parties set to form a long-awaited governing council have called for the...

Guyana: Police seize cocaine at airport, detain woman

Georgetown – Police have detained two people, one of them a 34-year-old woman, after they seized nearly five kilogrammes of cocaine in milk packets...

CDEMA preparing to send support team to Haiti

Bridgetown – The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is preparing to deploy CARICOM Operational Support Team (COST) members into Haiti following an official...

Dominica records first death linked to COVID-19

Roseau – Dominica Tuesday recorded its first death linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as the authorities extended the curfew put in place as...

Adverse weather conditions hit Trinidad

Trinidad is today experiencing adverse weather conditions and an alert has been issued. A notice on the Facebook Page of the Trinidad Express noted that...

Caricom Secretary-General Barnett ‘ready to serve’

Georgetown – Belizean diplomat, Dr Carla Barnett, was on Monday  installed as the eighth Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) indicating that she...

‘Minor’ quake affects sections of Jamaica

Kingston - The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona is reporting that a minor quake hit sections of Jamaica this...