Posts in category Caribbean News

By CALIBE THOMPSON Last week I sat in a hair salon near Half Way Tree in Jamaica listening to the shop owner vehemently disparage America …

By CALIBE THOMPSON America is a nation of immigrants, many of whom did not come here legally. Someone probably needs to share that with the …

By DIEU NALIO CHERY Associated Press PLAINE-DU-NORD, Haiti – A village in northern Haiti is transformed over two days each July into the spiritual center …

By CALIBE THOMPSON   I was fortunate enough to be among the press at the rally Saturday during which Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announced …

By CALIBE THOMPSON   I don’t remember America being such an aggressive place when I moved here in the early 2000s. People like Rush Limbaugh …

By Calibe Thompson   “Hypocrites and parasites” is a reference Bob Marley famously made in the 70s, but in the present there are quite a …

  By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press   HAVANA – Just before noon outside Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, a metallic screech cut through the chirping of …

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. State Department’s special coordinator for Haiti said Thursday that he recognizes Jocelerme Privert as …

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press   HAVANA – A small Florida bank will issue the first U.S. credit card intended for use in Cuba and …

PHOTO COURTESY OF SINGINGBLUEYES.WORDPRESS.COM By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s financially strapped government was ordered by a federal judge …