TORONTO (AP) — The filmmaker Raoul Peck was sitting in a Toronto hotel lobby talking to a reporter when Barry Jenkins beelined over to embrace him. The two know each other, though it had been…
SAN JUAN — The National Hurricane Center continues to issue advisories on Tropical Storm Sean. The NHC is also monitoring a tropical wave south of the Cabo Verde Islands with a 70 percent chance of…
Investing is a vast universe of strategies and techniques, each tailored to meet different goals and risk profiles. One technique, often overshadowed by others, is option selling. As a path less traveled in the investment…
NEW YORK — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (VIDPNR) to receive nearly $700,000 in funding under EPA’s Environmental Justice in Communities program to assist…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti declined today to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key commercial border crossing, leaving some trade at a standstill and prolonging a diplomatic crisis over the construction of a canal…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.73 billion after no one matched the game’s six numbers Monday and won the giant prize. The winning numbers announced were: 16, 34,…
On behalf of the people of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Curaçao as you celebrate Curaçao Day. Our longstanding friendship is a testament to the people-to-people ties, shared history, and…
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) The Dominican Republic announced new measures to strengthen control at its border with Haiti, including an indefinite extension of the border shutdown it enacted last month plus boosting military forces as well…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) — Former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal charges in a U.S. court for his role in the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean country’s last president Jovenel Moise.…
SAN JUAN — The U.S. Virgin Islands’ national baseball team wrapped up play this weekend in the fifth Caribbean Baseball Cup tournament, held in Carolina, Puerto Rico. The USVI finished the four-team tournament — hosted…