GEORGETOWN (AP) — Caribbean leaders said this week that all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed…
DAJABON (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic’s government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighboring Haiti’s crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the closed border from a surge in…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — Security forces in Haiti killed at least three people, repelling an attack on the central bank as gang violence surges in the capital of Port-au-Prince, an employee said Tuesday. The Bank of…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Armed gangs launched new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince early Wednesday, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital. Associated Press journalists reported seeing at least five bodies…
CHRISTIANSTED — The baker at a popular east end St. Croix restaurant is behind bars today after authorities said she cooked the company books to get nearly $1,400 in free things for herself. Taylor Holmes,…
FREDERIKSTED — Darren Bess was flown back to St. Croix on Monday and charged with the 2021 murder of Kevin Jerome. Bess, 29, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, carrying of firearms…
FREDERIKSTED — Joe Greaux is headed to Washington. Eulalie Rivera eighth-grader Joseph Greaux Jr. took first place in the Virgin Islands Territorial Spelling Bee on Tuesday after coming in second at the St. Croix District…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The 21st elected Virgin Islands Board of Education (VIBE) will conduct its regularly scheduled board meeting to discuss board committees’ and operations matters at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 21. The VIBE may…
MIAMI — On a windy winter morning in January, Joyce Milelli was leading a kayak tour through the Lower Keys when the group rounded a mangrove island and encountered a startling sight: a rare, endangered…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike,…