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A car left disabled near Grants Pen, St Thomas, after it crashed in the barrier after skidding in gravel left along the roadway by trucks transporting aggregate.
December 9, 2025

Overloaded trucks blamed for accidents on South Coast Highway, police vow to prosecute offenders

An alarm has been raised about the issue of overloaded trucks spilling gravel, sand, and other sediments on the South Coast Highway in St Thomas, with calls being made for truckers to face stricter…
National Guards patrol the streets in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Oct. 14, 2024.
December 9, 2025

US Treasury sanctions Sinaloa cartel faction Los Mayos in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP): The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned members of a Sinaloa cartel faction known as Los Mayos, one of the groups that has tormented Sinaloa’s capital in an ongoing war…
People displaced by gang violence live at the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications office converted into a shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
December 9, 2025

UN: Thousands forced out of their homes

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations Thursday said that last week’s deadly attack in the commune of Cabaret, in the West Department, has forced thousands of people to flee their home in the…
Principal of the Manchester-based Bethabara Primary School, Cecil Hamilton (centre), along with Vice Principal Ritta Evans Lowe (left), and teacher, Dionne Salkey Francis, display trophies won by the school for its high-quality greenhouse crops and value
December 9, 2025

Bethabara Primary looking to brand, market greenhouse crops

THE BETHABARA Primary School in Newport, Manchester, is looking to brand and market the high-quality crops and value-added products from its greenhouse farm. Principal of the institution, Cecil…
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December 9, 2025

Ruling party to outline AI policy in manifesto

KINGSTOWN (CMC): The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) will outline its policy on artificial intelligence in its manifesto for the general election widely expected by November 2025, ahead of the…
Barbados’ Foreign Minister, Kerrie Symmonds.
December 9, 2025

Concerns raised over US war on drugs in the Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados’ Foreign Minister, Kerrie Symmonds , has expressed concerns at the recent United States military strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking, saying the…
December 9, 2025

Jamaicans EAT AgriTech initiative to be launched at UTech in October

THE UNIVERSITY of Technology, Jamaica, through its School of Engineering, has partnered with Microsoft volunteers and the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE) along with other…
A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviews the list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on August 31.
December 9, 2025

Judge blocks Trump from deporting Guatemalan migrant children

WASHINGTON (AP): A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the US alone back to their home country,…
Jimmy Kimmel
December 9, 2025

Democrats introduce bill to protect free speech following Kimmel suspension

AYLESBURY (AP): After ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show following a threat from the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), congressional Democrats have denounced the…