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ORLANDO, Florida, September 20, 2018 (CMC) – A Trinidad and Tobago national, who entered the United States from Canada, was arrested, today, after he jumped a security fence at Florida’s Orlando Melbourne International Airport and boarded a passenger jet. Airport ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Dominica is observing the first anniversary of the devastation, caused by Hurricane Maria, last September, that killed at least 30 people, with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit praising God and insisting that “considerable progress” ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government, yesterday, said the compensation package for workers, being laid off by the closure of the oil refinery of the state-owned company, PETROTRIN, could be ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Yesterday, Jamaica became the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to announce a ban on Styrofoam, single-use plastic bags and drinking straws. Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and St. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old student, who was shot and killed at his home, after unidentified gunmen, reportedly kicked open the door, yesterday. Police have identified the victim as Shamar ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 17, 2018 (CMC) – The annual training conference of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) began here, today, amid concerns of the use of illegal drugs in the country. Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, said he was also ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 17, 2018 (CMC) – One year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Lesser Antilles, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), says it has helped mobilize US$25 million ...

DALLAS, Texas September 17, 2018 (CMC) – Demonstrators, on Friday night, demanded that a white police officer, Amber Guyger, who shot and killed a 26-year-old St. Lucian national in his apartment, last week, be “locked up”, as the relatives of ...

NEW YORK, New York September 13, 2018 (CMC) – A judge in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, yesterday, sentenced three gang members to jail, in connection with the shooting death of Carey Gabay, the Jamaica-born legal aide to New York Governor, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 13, 2018 (CMC) – The United Kingdom has deployed a team of specialists to the Caribbean, to help mitigate the impact of impending storms, threatening the British Overseas territories. According to Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, 87 engineers, ...