KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The instructions were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s capital largely obliged as they honored reggae giant Jimmy Cliff. “Jimmy didn’t want…
Going to the beach this weekend? Life-threatening rip current will likely return by Sunday, check the beach forecast before you go! Mainly fair weather with localized afternoon showers, mainly across interior and western Puerto Rico,…
KINGSHILL — In the courtroom of Magistrate Judge Yolan C. Brow-Ross is scheduled to see five defendants at the Superior Court in Estate Kingshill on St. Croix this morning: Nyssiah Calderon is scheduled for an advice-of-rights…
– Isolated showers early this morning, the National Weather Service said. – Stable weather conditions most of the day, with a few localized showers during the afternoon across western Puerto Rico, according to the NWS.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said today that it had conducted two more strikes against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people. U.S. Southern Command posted on…
THE VALLEY, Anguilla (AP) — Silence used to prevail in the forest of a private Caribbean islet until environmentalists transformed it into a love nest for the critically endangered Lesser Antillean iguana. Now, the sounds of iguanas…
LIMA — Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot reportedly tried to commit suicide at the notorious Peruvian prison where he is serving 28 years for murdering another woman. The 38-year-old killer was found Saturday hanging from…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE (AP) — A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. government sued the U.S. territory, its police department and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks on Tuesday,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Washington’s move expanding travel restrictions to include two small Caribbean nations is raising fears of economic disruption in a region where mobility to the United States underpins tourism, education, healthcare and family…
FREDERIKSTED — A black market scheme to register nine vehicles at the BMV without paying has been exposed by local law enforcement. Jimmar Ateebo Payne, 32, was arrested and charged with forgery, passing or possession…