WASHINGTON (CMC ):T he Trump administration says it is taking deportation actions against legal permanent residents in the United States affiliated with the Haitian foreign terrorist organisation, Viv Ansanm. “I am pleased to announce the latest US...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Trinidad-based Caribbean Freedom Project (CFP) is calling on the Bahamian authorities to pardon Shervandaze Smith, who was convicted in 2023 for smashing the Christopher Columbus statue outside Government House in 2021....
ISLAMABAD (AP: The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code. In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Authorities in Bermuda said Tuesday that they arrested four US cruise ship passengers accused of drug possession. Police said in a statement that the suspects had a “significant quantity of illegal drugs” including...
ALBANY, NY (AP) — New York will soon make phone calls free in its state prisons, officials said Tuesday. People who are incarcerated in the state's prisons currently receive three free, 15-minute phone calls a week. After that, the calls cost 2....
The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the UN's educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country's national interest, and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Former Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Monday said he had been detained on a stopover in Antigua and Barbuda and that his name had been placed on a watch list of the Paris-based International Police (INTERPOL). Rowley, a trained...
MANADO, (AP): The number of people saved from an Indonesian passenger ferry that caught fire at sea rose to 575, rescuers said Monday, but three died and two remained missing. The KM Barcelona V-A caught fire around midday Sunday while making its...
DHAKA (AP): A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at least 19 people including the pilot and injuring more than 100, officials said. According to the...
LATHAM, NY (AP): A Canadian man who reported his nine-year-old daughter missing in New York has been arrested after she was found dead, authorities said Monday. Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, was charged with second-degree...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former prime minister Dr, Keith Rowley Monday said he had been detained on a stopover in Antigua and Barbuda and that his name had been placed on a watch list of the Paris-based International Police (INTERPOL)....
LATHAM, NY (AP) — A Canadian man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead after he reported that she had been abducted while they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder. Luciano Frattolin is charged with murder and...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The new United States Ambassador to Haiti, Henry Wooster, says his priority is to address the security situation in the CARICOM country where criminal gangs have been seeking to overthrow the government. In a video...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says it has detained an attorney and the main suspect in the death of a 22-year-old woman, whose body was found in a black suitcase dumped in a pond in Sangre Grande,...
AUSTIN (AP): The number of people still missing in a Texas county ravaged by deadly flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend now stands at three, down from nearly 100. The announcement Saturday by Kerr County that the list of missing has...
SUVA PLANINA (AP): A severe drought this summer has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies. The early drought that started in May has affected people...
HA LONG BAY (AP): A Vietnamese man who survived the capsizing of a tour boat in Ha Long Bay described his escape from the overturned vessel. At least 35 people were killed in the accident and a search is continuing for four who are still missing,...
PARIS (AP): D-Day veteran ‘Papa Jake’ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate World War II and his fallen comrades, has died at...
BEND, Oregon (AP) — One person was killed and rescuers continued searching on Sunday for two others after a group of people were swept over an Oregon waterfall, authorities said. The group went over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River about 10...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police made 56 arrests and seized six illegal firearms and 33 rounds of ammunition during the first 24 hours of the state of emergency (SoE), the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has reported. From...
NEW YORK (AP): It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Rhode Island, United States, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his...
The IT company CEO captured in a widely circulated video showing him embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert has resigned. Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Cincinnati-based Astronomer Inc., according to a statement posted on...
HA LONG BAY, Vietnam (AP) — A tourist boat capsized during a sudden thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday afternoon during a sightseeing excursion, killing 18 people and leaving nearly two dozen others missing, state media reported. The Wonder Sea...
AP: A Chinese university announced the expulsion of a female student for “damaging national dignity” after she was accused of “improper interactions” with a foreign man, generating heated discussions across Chinese social media about whether the...
SAO PAULO (AP): Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, authorities said on Friday, in a move he described as “a supreme humiliation”. The development came as federal police conducted searches at his home...
