Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago continued investigations on Thursday into the mysterious “ghost ship” that capsized in unknown circumstances, causing a large offshore oil spill that is now threatening its neighbors.
Colombia is hoping to recover as quickly as possible what has been called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” from the Caribbean Sea.
A lawsuit claims the body of a man who died during a Celebrity Cruise in August was not kept in the ship’s morgue but in a cooler.
Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police on Friday in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. Several dozen of the protesters were able to force their way into the National Assembly building, but were driven back with tear gas, while others burned and looted shops across the city. The United Nations expressed concerns on Monday that more violence could be in store, possibly building into an effort to overthrow President Chandrikapersad Santokhi.
Police in London have demanded that an annual Afro-Caribbean festival in London no longer be held after widespread violence, with one officer even being sexually assaulted while policing the event.
Authorities in Colombia who were monitoring the sunken San José galleon have made an exciting discovery, President Ivan Duque announced Monday.
Jamaica indicated on Wednesday that they intend to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic.
Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Prince William and his wife Kate have been ‘cancelled’ by Belizean protestors who accused the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge of continuing Britain’s “colonial legacy”.
Two men were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for trying to smuggle £250,000 worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom.
A major earthquake hit the western portion of Haiti on Saturday, which sent shockwaves across the Caribbean, Reuters reported.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 74, suffered a gory head wound on Thursday when he was struck by a projectile during a protest against mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for government employees. The projectile was later identified as a rock thrown by one of the demonstrators.
Former mobile network executive Gary Miller, founder of a cybersecurity startup called Exigent Media, on Tuesday accused China of using mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to conduct surveillance operations against Americans.
Cornell University has rejected a proposal to create a “Caribbean Studies” minor. Other universities, including Rutgers, Wesleyan, NYU, and the University of Michigan already offer a minor in Caribbean Studies. Cornell’s Africana Studies department chair Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò argues there is no “intellectual justification” to create a Caribbean Studies minor.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly ordered British diplomats to try to counter the “expansionism” of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Belt and Road initiative following accusations that the regime in Beijing pressured Barbados to remove the Queen as its
“Some islands seem to be close to swapping a symbolic Queen in Windsor for a real and demanding emperor in Beijing.”
A team of British sailors and Royal Marines, joined by USCG personnel have interdicted 358kg (790lbs) of cocaine in the Caribbean.
A Dutch military helicopter has crashed into the Caribbean Sea near the island of Aruba, killing two of the crew.
Protest movements are sweeping the world, from Hong Kong to Iraq. Protesters in each country are aware of the other movements and frequently give them shout-outs or adopt their tactics. The fate of all these movements is uncertain, but they share a more unambiguous commitment to sovereignty than most global protest stories of the past few decades, and perhaps an understanding that national and cultural identity are vital weapons against authoritarian hegemonic powers. Smaller governments may not guarantee freedom and human rights, but big ones almost guarantee their absence.
The Dutch government on Friday announced it would budget 23.8 million euros (about $26 million) for the Caribbean islands of Curacao and Aruba to help deal with a massive influx of refugees from Venezuela.
A dozen FBI agents raided deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island” on Monday morning, according to reports.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York on Thursday for a brief stay on the outbound leg of her trip to visit Taiwan’s allies in the Caribbean.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced on Monday that she will depart on July 11 for a 12-day trip through the Caribbean. The mainland Chinese government expressed anger at Taiwanese media reports that Tsai will stop in the United States for two nights on both the outbound and return legs of her journey.
Health officials on St. Lucia island have quarantined a cruise ship anchored there after reports that a passenger had the measles.
Police are investigating an American woman’s fatal plunge off a Caribbean cruise ship on Tuesday as a murder, according to multiple reports.
President Trump’s plan to stop the importation and permanent resettlement of welfare-dependent foreign nationals in the United States may significantly shift where legal immigrants to the country derive from.
China’s decision to expand its ambitious multi-trillion-dollar “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative to Latin America may create security vulnerabilities for the United States by allowing Beijing to expand its influence over the region, the chief of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) cautioned lawmakers.
The explosive new “Paradise Papers” reveal that Apple, the world’s most profitable company, has been using a tax shelter scheme based in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British dependency.
The Times of Israel reports: As volunteers worked feverishly to tape the exposed windows of San Juan’s Temple Beth Shalom with plastic film and carry the synagogue’s Torah scrolls to a secure place, the congregation’s visiting rabbi prayed for a
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to arrange a meeting with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on the sidelines of next month’s UN General Assembly gathering in New York City, Caribbean News Now! reported on Monday.
UC Santa Cruz surrendered to the demands of the Afrikan Black Student Alliance (ABSA) after a three-day occupation of the administration building — and after ABSA activists harassed Jews.
Approximately 150 students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have occupied the school’s administration building since Tuesday afternoon armed with a long list of demands for the educational institution.
Up to 125 jihadists and their relatives have traveled from the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago to join the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, making the country “the largest per-capita source” of recruits for the jihadist group in the Western Hemisphere, reports the Associated Press (AP).
Islam had an estimated 3 million adherents in Latin America and the Caribbean as of the end of last year, marking an increase of nearly 25 percent from the 2.3 million who were residing there in 2010, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. Department of State (DoS) data shows.
Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, started a Latin American tour in Cuba, the latest effort by the Islamic Republic to maintain its growing relationship with nations in the region.
The latest issue of the Islamic State (ISIS) magazine, Dabiq, features two stories on jihadis based in the Caribbean – one an interview, one an obituary – encouraging Caribbean islanders to abandon Christianity and join the jihad. In both stories, the jihadis in question boast of having been arrested, investigated, and ultimately released.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military is confronting an “extremist Islamist movement” in the Americas that has been linked to the use of illicit trafficking networks by criminals and terrorists, likely working together, revealed U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) chief Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd during a roundtable discussion with reporters.
Contents: Economic collapse of Venezuela will devastate the entire Caribbean region; Lufthansa suspends flights to Venezuela over non-payment; Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela’s businesses on purpose to create Socialist Paradise
Iran’s Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, finds itself in dire financial straits after years of sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, a top U.S. Department of Treasury official told lawmakers this week.
“Hundreds” of individuals from Latin America and the Caribbean have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
