PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya…
MIAMI — A tropical wave located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands continues to produce disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity, the National Hurricane Center said. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive,…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred police officers…
SAN JUAN — A dense Saharan Air Layer will move across the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today. It will occupy our islands for at least three consecutive days, starting from today and extending until at least…
COCKBURN TOWN — One of the remaining three Americans charged in the Turks and Caicos Islands will be in court today. Ryan Watson of Oklahoma will be sentenced on possession of ammunition charges. This comes…
COCKBURN TOWN — After a vacation to Turks and Caicos left five Americans behind bars, the island is revising its law regarding ammunition that put them in jail in the first place. In May 2024,…
ISABEL SEGUNDA — After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, the small island of Vieques – just off the coast of the main island – went without electric power from the grid for more…
OTTAWA — The Caribbean Development Bank’s acting president on Wednesday called for immediate action to fund efforts to protect the region’s coastlines and population from the growing impacts of climate change, ahead of a potentially…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs since March has displaced nearly 580,000 people, according to a new report from the U.N. migration agency, a sobering figure that underscores the magnitude of…
NAIROBI (AP) — A team of Haitian police commanders on Tuesday met Kenya’s inspector general of police ahead of a planned deployment to the violence-hit Caribbean country expected to take place by the end of June. Kenya…