Posts in category Caribbean News

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s longest and most punishing strike by medical professionals officially came to an end Thursday with young …

By Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Campaigning for Haiti’s presidential redo election has gotten off to a very quiet start, with major candidates waiting for …

By Associated Press MIAMI – The Coast Guard this week has repatriated 161 Cuban migrants to the island nation following more than a dozen interdiction’s …

By CALIBE THOMPSON Last week I sat in a hair salon near Half Way Tree in Jamaica listening to the shop owner vehemently disparage America …

By CALIBE THOMPSON America is a nation of immigrants, many of whom did not come here legally. Someone probably needs to share that with the …

By DIEU NALIO CHERY Associated Press PLAINE-DU-NORD, Haiti – A village in northern Haiti is transformed over two days each July into the spiritual center …

By CALIBE THOMPSON   I was fortunate enough to be among the press at the rally Saturday during which Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announced …

By CALIBE THOMPSON   I don’t remember America being such an aggressive place when I moved here in the early 2000s. People like Rush Limbaugh …

By Calibe Thompson   “Hypocrites and parasites” is a reference Bob Marley famously made in the 70s, but in the present there are quite a …

  By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press   HAVANA – Just before noon outside Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, a metallic screech cut through the chirping of …