Eleven bodies found in beached boat in Eastern Caribbean
KINGSTOWN (Reuters) — Police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday said they found a boat beached on the shore of Canouan island carrying the remains of what they…
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Defiant Caribbean leaders dismiss trafficking accusations as US targets Cuba’s doctor diplomacy
HAVANA (Reuters) — Caribbean leaders this week rejected U.S. accusations of Cuban labor exploitation after the United States announced it will restrict the visas of officials tied to a Cuban…
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Caribbean leaders oppose US policy targeting Cuban medical missions, saying they’re critical
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of…
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Once a site of horror, a tiny Caribbean island could become a Garifuna shrine
KINGSTOWN — Arriving in Baliceaux, it is hard to imagine that this private island in St Vincent and the Grenadines was once the site of one of history’s worst genocides perpetrated by…
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Rastafarians opening up Caribbean cannabis farms to build a flourishing medical industry
KINGSTOWN — On Golba Hill in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, just below a cluster of colorfully decorated homes, there are rows and rows of premium marijuana plants. Gleaming like…
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Caribbean braces for economic punch after season’s deadly first hurricane
KINGSTON — Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it…
Officials plead for $9 million in aid weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastated the southeast Caribbean
ST. GEORGE'S (AP) — People in the southeast Caribbean urgently need food, water and shelter nearly two weeks after Hurricane Beryl crushed the region as a Category 4 storm, officials said Thursday…
Hurricane Beryl: ‘Grim’ situation as multiple deaths reported in massive storm’s path
Multiple deaths have been reported in Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, officials on those islands said Tuesday as Hurricane Beryl continues to pummel the Caribbean as a Category 5…
How the hot water that fueled Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts…
Hurricane Beryl rips through open waters after devastating the southeast Caribbean
KINGSTON (AP) — Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters today as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after…