SAN JUAN — Tropical Storm Bret has formed over the central Atlantic, and could strengthen to a hurricane by the end of the week when it passes the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in the downtown area of St. Thomas on Saturday afternoon. The 911 Central Dispatch received a call at 2:45 p.m. about a possible robbery…
SAN JUAN — Satellite images indicate that the area of low pressure located roughly midway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles has become better organized overnight and is close to becoming a tropical cyclone. If…
MIAMI — Showers and thunderstorms are gradually becoming better organized in association with a tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands according to the National Hurricane Center. NHC added environmental conditions…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) — Humanitarian aid to Haiti will need to take into account the influence of heavily armed gangs who control large parts of the country, the president of a regional bloc said ahead of…
KINGSTON (Reuters) — Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said he is seeing “definite interest” from other Caribbean countries to join in issuing a regional catastrophe bond that would protect their budgets from hurricanes and spread…
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor Invest 92L, which could eventually become the second named system of the Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters have been watching a disturbance, known as a tropical wave,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Texas man was arrested on St. Thomas and charged with being a fugitive from justice. Henry Thomas Houston, 57, was detained by federal agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)…
CHRISTIANSTED — A native of Costa Rica admitted to drug smuggling charges in federal court in Golden Rock today. Luis Antonio Orellana- Orellano, 69, of San Jose, pled guilty in front of U.S. District Court…
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — In recent years, several Caribbean nations have struck down laws criminalizing same-sex relations. Courts in Belize in 2016 and Trinidad and Tobago in 2018 found such laws unconstitutional. Last year,…