PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti’s capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close as hundreds of people fled. Heavily armed gangs have grown more powerful than…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African navy was brought in Monday to help with a search for a 6-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks in a case that has…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center said Wednesday the Popocatépetl volcano, located just 50 miles from the country’s capital, has erupted 13 times in the past day and urged people to not try…
BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) — For a supposedly cricket-worshipping people, the West Indians have taken their time to join the World Cup party which has arrived on their shores. The week’s warm-up matches have, almost without exception,…
CRUZ BAY — Police are investigating a possible drowning of a Massachusetts man in St. John just after noon on Monday. Chris Laslocky, 49, of East Brookfield, was positively identified as the drowning victim, the…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man who brandished a weapon as he fled out the front door of Kmart with several stolen items worth more than $500 has been arrested by police. Leon Wilkins,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas resident was charged with raping a woman, authorities said. Deurys de los Rios, 19, was arrested at 10:00 p.m. Sunday and charged with first-degree rape and disturbance of the…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Biden administration is alarmed over what it is describing as a “rapidly deteriorating security situation” in Haiti as the country’s armed gangs broadened their attacks on critical infrastructure Sunday, launching an assault…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Hundreds were without electricity in Tutu this morning after a vehicle collided with a utility pole this morning, causing widespread power outages in St. Thomas. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority customers…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew late Sunday in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang…