New Radar System to be Installed at Barbados Int’l Airport
The Government of Barbados plans to install new radar and airspace management technology at Grantley Adams International Airport to help air traffic controllers manage the growing number of aircraft entering the country’s airspace. Minister of…
Ousted Venezuelan President Maduro returns to court, judge says he won’t dismiss case
After three months in jail, ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared in federal court in Manhattan for a status conference on Thursday. Judge Alvin Hellerstein said he would not dismiss the narcoterrorism and other charges Maduro faces,…
US forces have killed four suspected “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean
The Miami-based United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) says US forces have killed four suspected “narco-terrorists” during a targeted maritime strike in the Caribbean Sea. According to SOUTHCOM, the operation was carried out under the direction…
ICE deports convicted illegal Jamaican national
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has deported a convicted illegal Jamaican national. On Friday, ICE said Kemar Hamilton was convicted of homicide in New York in 2012. ICE said he was arrested for the murder…
US tells Caribbean countries there are alternatives to Cuban health care programme
The United States Friday told Caribbean countries that there are “alternative methods available” to recruit healthcare workers as it continued its criticism of the Cuban health brigade programme to the region. In a post on the US Embassy in Barbados…
Grenada parliament approves amendment to marijuana legislation
The Grenada parliament has given the green light to legislation amending the existing marijuana legislation marijuana even as Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Tuesday said that his preference had been for the decriminalisation to take effect from the…
CARICOM to offer three-level crop protection training programme
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Wednesday said it is offering a three-level crop protection training programme aimed at building knowledge and practical capacity across the food production and processing sector in the…
Maduro is set to make his first appearance in a US courtroom on drug trafficking charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York.…
US plans to ‘run’ Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says, after operation to oust Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least…
UN food agencies warn that millions of lives at risk as hunger crisis worsens
Haiti has been identified among 16 countries and territories worldwide by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen between now and May 2026,…