Posts in category Caribbean News

If you’ve ever actually seen real live crabs in a barrel, you’ll immediately understand why that analogy to certain human behavior makes perfect sense. When …

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press   HAVANA (AP) — The number of Cubans heading to the United States has soared since the …

You can imagine my surprise when in response to my first SFLTimes Op Ed on being Caribbean American rather than African American, a reader informed …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into …

The following news items were compiled from Associated Press reports. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Mining agreement SANTO DOMINGO – Customs officials and Barrick Pueblo Viejo, a Canadian …

SANTO DOMINGO — Thousands of Haitians have been lining up this summer at government offices in the Dominican Republic trying to take advantage of a …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — President Michel Martelly announced he has appointed a new council to oversee Haitian legislative and local elections that are two years overdue, an …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti raised its minimum wage slightly for the estimated 29,000 workers who sew together T-shirts and other clothing in the country’s apparel factories.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is launching an “extraordinary” audit of Jamaica’s drug-testing agency following allegations that its policing of the …