WASHINGTON, CMC - The United States says several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas, are engaged in discriminatory practices against Rastafarians, voodoo practitioners and Muslims. In its International Religious Freedom Report for ...

WASHINGTON, CMC – A major international human rights group says the skyrocketing criminal prosecutions of Caribbean and other migrants for illegally entering or reentering the United States carry huge human and financial costs. In a report released here on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said imprison...

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Cuban government says it has seen a dramatic and unexplained drop in the harvest of vegetables and fruit in the first three months of the year. In a report, the Cuban National Statistics Office (ONE) gave no reason for the production decline, despite government reforms to in...

MAINE, CMC - An American company that monitors global Internet traffic, says Cuba has activated a branch of its submarine fibre optic cable that connects to Jamaica, giving it greater bandwidth and a backup in case the main leg to Venezuela is not available. Senior analyst at Renesys Corporation, Do...

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is sweetening terms for major infrastructure contracts to whet investor appetite and draw private capital and expertise needed to upgrade its deficient roads, railways and ports, the man in charge of planning the projects said on Tuesday. Bernardo Figueiredo said ...

MIAMI, United States (CMC) — United States federal prosecutors have indicted three foreigners in a US$27 million cocaine bust in the Caribbean Sea. They said Beat Jegge of Switzerland and Daniel Velazquez and Julio Claro Alvarez of Colombia were arrested by US Coast Guard officers after their...

WASHINGTON, CMC - The United States Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. The bipartisan vote sends the s most significant immigration policy changes in decades to the full Senate for further deliberation. Debate is anticipated to commence t...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - When, in January of this year, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to the British people on the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union, he promised that following the next parliamentary general elections due in mid-2015, the electorate would have an opportu...

WASHINGTON, CMC - A bipartisan group of legislators in the United States House of Representatives say they have reached a deal in principle in overhauling America’s immigration laws. Aides said the bill in the House of Representatives is similar to one introduced in the US Senate that include...

WASHINGTON, CMC – United States law enforcement officials say two foreign nationals had been jailed in Texas for smuggling human into the United States using the Caribbean. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Indian national Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar and Brazilian Fabiano Augusto Amorim were each...