BUENOS AIRES — Donald Trump was clear with Latin America and the Caribbean during his four-year administration — don’t do business with China. That message fell flat and was largely ignored in the Caribbean and…
MEXICO CITY — In April 2019, Mexican police arrested suspected human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo in a plush area of the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen after linking him to a prostitution racket extending across…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — In a year in which the tourism industry was repeatedly dealt blows, the U.S. Virgin Islands can see a glimmer of a silver lining among the pandemic-driven storm clouds. The territory was…
FREDERIKSTED — The Virgin Islands Police Department is investigating a shooting that left a man dead near the Fish Market in Frederiksted this evening. Officers were dispatched to the scene on Fisher Street at 6:01…
CHRISTIANSTED — Police are looking for a suspect in a case where a St. Croix man was stabbed multiple times near a Sunny Isle-area nightclub early this morning, authorities said. The victim was listed in…
WILLEMSTAD — Sandals Resorts International said this week they have signed an agreement that will bring Sandals® Resorts to a brand-new destination, at the Santa Barbara Resort on the island of Curaçao. This will mark…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Virgin Islands Police Department holiday gift drive got a 630-gift response in time for Christmas, organizers of the event said. Local businesses and private citizens generously donated to the cause and…
PORT OF SPAIN — Trinidad and Tobago said it would impose stiffer penalties on those trafficking migrants from neighboring Venezuela, days after a Venezuelan boat headed to the Caribbean twin-island nation sank, killing at least…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man who wanted to short circuit the telephone conversations of his girlfriend allegedly broke into her apartment, assaulted her and then left with her cell phone, authorities said. Jahneil Herbert,…
WASHINGTON — Larry Summers, the former U.S. treasury secretary who has reportedly advised President-elect Joe Biden, thinks $2,000 stimulus checks would be a “pretty serious mistake” that could overheat the US economy. Congress approved a…