SANTIAGO — The northern Chilean village of Colchane near the Bolivia border is seeing a fast-developing situation due to unrest among migrants, mostly from Venezuela, who are neither being allowed to enter Chile nor return…
SAN JUAN — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Winslow Griesser assisted two boaters Thursday by towing the disabled 51-foot catamaran Sassi Kat to safe harbor in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The assisted boaters, a…
BEIJING — Katie Tannenbaum came to the Olympics and finished last. It didn’t upset her whatsoever. Nor should it, considering her story: She overcome long odds to just to get to the Beijing Games. The…
PORT OF SPAIN — A dubious distinction at best, but it is worth noting that Trinidad and Tobago has climbed three spots upward in the COVID-19 world per capita death rankings. The Caribbean twin-island country…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Police fired tear gas for a second day Thursday in attempts to break up protests by striking workers demanding pay increases at an industrial park in Haiti’s capital. The workers employed at factories…
BOGOTA — Intense fires in Colombia’s Amazon region so far this year point to rising deforestation by people clearing land for ranching and other uses, alarming environment groups, while officials also warned of pollution caused…
After the earthquake, many children have found themselves without any opportunity to go to school in the immediate future PORT-AU-PRINCE — The earthquake of 14 August 2021 in the Great South of Haiti had a…
SAINT JOHN’S — Barbuda’s fragile and biodiverse natural site of Palmetto Point, recognised as a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention, remains at risk, with serious human rights implications, due to the construction…
PORT OF SPAIN — Trinidad and Tobago’s Coast Guard said a Venezuelan migrant infant died in a security operation on Saturday when a vessel illegally crossed the maritime border, prompting the Caribbean nation to offer…
SAN JUAN — Dozens of schools in Puerto Rico closed on Monday following torrential rains that caused widespread flooding and several landslides across the territory over the weekend. The severe weather also knocked over several…