SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico’s governor has declared a state of emergency following heavy rains, widespread flooding and landslides in the U.S. commonwealth. One person has been reported missing. Governor Pedro Pierluisi also activated the National…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown bottles, twirling in…
Alex DaLomba Tavares was with his girlfriend when the rip current took him by surprise SAN JUAN — The body of a Massachusetts man who was swept away by the current at a waterfall in…
CHRISTIANSTED — A British Virgin Islands resident was given nearly five years in prison for smuggling $20 million worth of cocaine into St. Croix Augusto Rodriguez-Molina, 37, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced…
SAN JUAN — Excessive rainfall risk for today/tonight, with an elevated risk for most of Puerto Rico. Flooding of urban areas, roads, and small streams. Since soils are saturated, flash floods and mudslides are possible.…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that surprised many as gang violence consumes the country. Instead of having a single council…
MIAMI — Cruise operator Royal Caribbean Group is in discussions with new and existing markets around the world to recruit thousands of workers to staff its ships and private destinations to keep up with record cruise…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two Central Americans and one South American pleaded guilty smuggling 844 pounds of cocaine in United States territorial waters. Eleuterio Gomez Murillo, 53, of Colombia, and Randall Vasquez, 47, and Mainor Salazar…
CHRISTIANSTED — A Grenada man faces a maximum 20 years in prison after admitting in federal court on St. Croix that he smuggled 70 pounds of cocaine. Rodney de Roche, 39, of Saint George’s, pleaded…
KYIV — Russia has been recruiting Cuban nationals to fight in its army in Ukraine, research by the BBC has shown. In September and October 2023, passport details belonging to over 200 Cubans who allegedly…