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Nassau, Bahamas -- The Bahamas government has sought an explanation from the United States government over claims the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting, recording and archiving every cell phone conversation in The Bahamas,…

ST JAMES, Jamaica -- A rescue team Monday night worked feverishly to recover two nine-year-old twin brothers who were swept away by flood water in their St James community which was pounded by heavy showers earlier on the afternoon. The…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) supported the successful staging of Haitian NGO, Femmes en Démocratie’s ninth edition of its female-owned small business trade show, Femmes Création and…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- An American missionary who came to Haiti in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake has been stabbed to death in the capital of the impoverished Caribbean country, police and friends said Friday. George Knoop,…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb reiterated Friday that the confederation intended to bid for the 2026 World Cup. Just days after making the point in New York, Webb told local journalists in Barbados that…

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has requested that senior citizens who are accessing their certificates of title for the first time, do so at a reduced rate. Simpson Miller has asked the Ministry of Water,…

BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 rattled the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. The US Geological Survey said that the…

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica -- The body of a British man was on Thursday fished from the sea at Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth after he successfully rescued his son who had got into difficulties. After the rescue, shortly after 8:45 am, the father…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Central Bank of Barbados has tried to backtrack on a letter Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell sent last week to the chief executive officer and publisher of the Nation newspaper, Vivian-Anne Gittens, stating that…

ST JAMES, Jamaica -- A signed statement of a man who is now deceased indicates that on June 2, 2012 Trinidadian schoolteacher Michelle Coudray-Greaves was seen alive in the car of a man sporting dread-locks. Coudray-Greaves’ charred…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has called on the European Union to provide funds for two projects in his homeland and St. Kitts-Nevis which he said will have an immense impact on the tourism…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- An earthquake occurred in eastern Jamaica Sunday night about 8:44. The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies confirmed the quake as magnitude 3.4. It was felt in the Buff Bay area of Portland as well as…

CASTRIES, St Lucia -- Political leader of the Lucian People’s Movement (LPM), Therold Prudent, has urged public sector unions to reject government proposals to cut civil service wages until other pressing financial and economic issues have…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago defence attorney Wayne Sturge said he has received three death threats over the last 12 months but did not take them seriously. “I have gotten serious threats in the last 12 months,…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Haiti has confirmed 14 cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease that has been affecting the region since it was first detected in the Caribbean in December last year. Health Minister Florence Guillaume…