Friday, April 26, 2024

Regional

British national hospitalised after shark attack

SCARBOROUGH – A 64 year-old British national has been taken to the Scarborough General Hospital, after being attacked by a bull shark on Friday morning, the Chief Secretary of...

Haiti’s Prime Minister resigns

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the...

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...

Police road blocks delay flights, affect exams

PORT OF SPAIN – National Security Minister Carl Alfonso this morning called on Acting Commissioner of Police Ann Marie Alleyne-Daly to call off the...

Bahamas tourism figures up for January 2015

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Ministry of Tourism in The Bahamas says preliminary tourism statistics show double digit increases in air arrivals and hotel performance...

Cubans jailed for black market eggs

HAVANA (AP) – More than a dozen people were sentenced to between five and 15 years in prison for conspiring to divert millions of...

DR reopening consulates in Haiti

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – The Dominican Republic is reopening the consulates it closed in neighbouring Haiti following a series of protests that...

Caribbean people upset with leaders

THERE ARE “a lot of angry citizens” in Barbados, Jamaica elsewhere in the Caribbean because the region’s leaders “haven’t delivered”.Including himself, Governments, academics, and...

St Lucia continues record-breaking tourism growth

ST LUCIA Tourist Board officials forecast a continued upward trend for the year, due to new and continued marketing campaigns.On the heels of a...