London, Jul 3 : Staff at the luxury Caribbean resort have banned troubled singer Amy Winehouse from swimming in their pool, as she does so after marathon boozing...

By Jean H Charles The concept of social exclusion and its corollary, hospitality for all, have been the hallmark of my inquiry in most of these columns. As such, when the Haiti National Observatory...

SANTO DOMINGO - An Air France plane from the Dominican Republic to Paris had to turn back shortly after takeoff due to a problem with the air conditioning, the company said Friday."A problem was...

SANTO DOMINGO.- Aimed at continuing to spur the country’s tourism development, the Tourism Ministry with a US$3 million contribution from Japan’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and...

SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic participates in Caricom’s 30th Conference of Heads of State and Government which concludes July 5 in Georgetown, Guyana, where the regional bloc’s relations...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has awarded Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and two partners the return of a $1.5 million deposit from the botched sale of a...

Members of the CARICOM regional group seek unity as Caribbean nations as economic, trade and immigration challenges threaten the stability of the...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is slated to make his first trip to Haiti next week as U.N. special envoy to the storm-ravaged country.Clinton begins a three-day mission Monday to help the...

By Pascal FletcherBASSETERRE, St Kitts (Reuters) -- The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is...

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- The United States will provide 420,000 courses of antiviral medication Tamiflu to fight swine flu in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Department of Health and Human...

OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canada has forgiven C$2.3 million in debt owed by Haiti as part of a plan that aims to relieve the world's poorest countries of C$1.3 billion in debt, the Department of...

anselma@caribbeannetnews.com CASTRIES, St Lucia -- Danielle Beaubrun captured the islands second medal at the 26th Central American and Caribbean Championships when she placed second for the silver...

Members of the steel pan ensemble Caribbean Sound are seen performing with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra in Rockford, Ill. In 2005. Caribbean Sound will perform with the East Texas Symphony...

SANTO DOMINGO.- Canada ambassador Patricia Fortier hosted a gathering Wednesday night to mark the 141st anniversary of the founding of her country and the 400 years since the Founding of the City of...

Another talking point is the proposed union between Trinidad and Tobago and some member-nations of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- British officials looking into corruption allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands have called for a criminal investigation of Premier Michael Misick, authorities said...

WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the United States will provide 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu (Oseltamavir) to the Pan-American Health...

The birthday girl twirled to the sounds of her favorite Haitian music. Friends and family formed a circle around her, chanting ``Marlie, Marlie.''Four years ago, Marlie Casseus spent most of her life...

Royal Caribbean Cruises said it will sell $300 million of senior notes due in 2015 and use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repaying debt.The notes were priced at 97.4 percent...

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican Alliance Against Corruption (Adocco) yesterday filed a complaint against the executive vice president of the State-owned Electrical Companies (CDEEE), Radhamés Segura. ...

Dr. Jesus Gomez, maxillofacial surgeon from the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, and Marlie Casseus in Sept. 2006 prior to her fourth surgery at Holtz Children's Hospital on...

Tripoli - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the head of the African Union, has called on Caribbean nations to join the grouping. "These countries are considered to be African, but they are in the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Three international organizations canceled US$1.2 billion of Haiti's debt Tuesday, freeing up millions of dollars each year for the deeply impoverished Caribbean nation that...

Washington - Global lenders will forgive 1.2 billion dollars of Haiti's debt to help the Caribbean nation climb out of poverty, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund announced Wednesday. The...

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Supreme Court’s (SCJ) Penal Chamber Wednesday morning ruled to extradite Ernesto Bienvenido Guevara Diaz (Maconi) to the United States, where he’ll face several counts of drug...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands -- Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and two partners were cleared Tuesday in a civil suit of reneging on a deal to buy a private island with sandy...

Santo Domingo.- The president of the Robert Kennedy Center for Human Rights yesterday said it’s an “error” to ignore the around one million Haitians who live in the Dominican Republic, and...

Cash-strapped, storm-battered Haiti is finally getting relief.After years of struggling to meet the requirements for cancellation of most of its $1.7 billion in foreign debt, the country has finally...

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter disabled a suspicious high-speed boat with gunfire and the four men aboard were detained after they tossed bales containing $8 million in cash into the Caribbean,...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): President Rene Preval's Lespwa party has emerged the winner from senatorial elections held April 21, according to results made public by the provisional election council....

IRVINE, USA.-- Men and women in the Dominican Republic will soon have access to genetic tests for predicting the risk of male or female hair loss thanks to a distribution agreement announced on...

It is one of the most controversial periods in Haitian history, and yet Jamaican anthropologist and University of the West Indies lecturer Matthew Smith argues that it was also perhaps modern Haiti's...

By: Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis June 20th, 2009. Haitians appeared skeptical of the recent senatorial elections. In Gonaives, sitting in a tap tap days prior to the election, Kener...

The United Way honored a Miami Herald reporter and photographer Tuesday afternoon for their work covering storm-ravaged Haiti last summer.Jacqueline Charles and Patrick Farrell were given the Essie...

Santo Domingo.- Vice president Rafael Alburquerque will represent president Leonel Fernandez in the joint session of Congress today, to commemorate the centennial of the late president Juan Bosch’s...

Santo Domingo.- The American Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Robert Kennedy, met Monday with Dominican officials to discuss the situation of Haitian immigrants in the Caribbean country. The...

Washington, DC.- U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to the Dominican Republic Roland W. Bullen and Interior and Police minister Franklin Almeyda signed the first letter of agreement implementing the Mérida...

Santo Domingo.- The U.S. human rights activist Kerry Kennedy and the Haitian rights par Sonia Pierre will meet today with Central Electoral Board president (JCE) Julio Cesar Castaños, to discuss...

Santo Domingo.- A former Hydraulic Resources Institute (Indhri) director on Tuesday criticized the alleged deterioration of the country’s dams, blaming it on the authorities’ “negligence.” ...

President Rene Preval's party won five of 11 contests to fill open Senate seats, according to preliminary results released Monday by the provisional electoral...

SANTO DOMINGO, Jun 30 (IPS) - Among the colourful houses in the neighbourhood called Vietnam in East Santo Domingo, many families have at least one family member among the 1.5 million Dominicans...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- President Ma Ying-jeou departed yesterday afternoon for a visit to two of Taiwan's diplomatic allies in Central America in a move to cement mutual friendship and expand cooperation...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have joined in the global condemnation of the military coup that removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office on Sunday. The...

The presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua Alvaro Colom, Mauricio Funes and Daniel Ortega on Monday decided to halt for 48 hours cross-border trade with Honduras, where a government came...

By JONATHAN M. KATZASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haitian police say a demonstrator found slain after a clash with U.N. peacekeepers during a funeral procession was killed by a...

Haiti's presidential campaign may be a year away, but at least one candidate and his supporters aren't wasting any time reaching out to the Haitian Diaspora and promoting his candidacy.Dr. Guy D....

Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is calling on the U.S. government to provide more assistance to help Haiti combat drug traffickers who have turned the country into a popular transit point for Colombian...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says there are hopeful signs of recovery in storm-ravaged Haiti.The Florida Democrat traveled to the Caribbean country over the weekend. He discussed his...

(AFP)--The four Central Asian nations agreed Monday to secure 800 million tons of radioactive and toxic uranium waste sludge that could be used to make a "dirty" radiological bomb, a U.N. agency...

Royal Caribbean said its full-year fuel expenses could be 12 cents per share higher at today's oil prices, which have leaped 45 percent since the company provided its outlook in late...