Posts in category Caribbean News

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he …

BAHAMAS

 Opposition PLP back in power 
NASSAU — Former Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie led the main opposition party to victory on Monday, ousting the …

KINGSTON — Jamaica announced the creation of a government task force to fight proliferating lottery scams that have made the country a center for international …

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A growing number of political leaders in the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean are pushing to replace the London-based Privy Council with …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year under a …

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE —Lawmakers have approved President Michel Martelly’s choice for a new prime minister, ending a two-month impasse that hampered the country’s efforts to …

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE —  One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details but that didn’t …

PUERTO RICO Band leader arrested in child porn case SAN JUAN — U.S. federal officials said a former director of a Puerto Rican municipal marching …

PUERTO RICO Girl accused of killing man SAN JUAN — Prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge against a 17-year-old girl who allegedly killed a man …

BAHAMAS Elections set for May 7 NASSAU — Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has announced general elections for May 7.