SANTO DOMINGO — Heavy rains from a tropical system turned deadly in the Dominican Republic over the weekend when urban flooding caused a highway wall to collapse.
Read moreCaribbean, Latin American remittances to reach yearly record – IDB
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Money shipped to the Caribbean and Latin America as remittances could hit a record $156 billion this year, a 9.5% jump
Read moreHeavily armed Haitian gang surrounds hospital in capital and traps people inside
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according
Read moreAfrica seeks action plan on slavery reparations at Ghana conference
ACCRA (Reuters) — Financial reparations are long overdue to Africans and the diaspora as compensation for the enslavement of people of African descent, Ghanaian President
Read moreChina’s Xi in US for high-stakes Biden summit, APEC
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first visit to the United States in six years on Tuesday, after President Joe Biden
Read moreEndangered sperm whales are now free to poop in protected area off Dominica
ROSEAU (AP) — The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered
Read more5.0 magnitude quake strikes Dominican Republic near border with Haiti
SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northwest Dominican Republic on Friday near the border with Haiti. The tremor occurred at a
Read moreTwo residents of Barbuda fight the government, seeking to protect land
ST. JOHN’S (AP) — When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm in 2017, the government temporarily
Read moreSpirits giant Diageo’s shares suffer Latin American and Caribbean hangover
LONDON (Reuters) — Diageo’s shares fell by as much as 16% on Friday after the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky said it expected first-half operating profit
Read moreKenya says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government said Thursday that its police officers will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding
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