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Civil rights groups claim he was a killer in Haiti but when Emmanuel ''Toto'' Constant took the witness stand Wednesday, it was to challenge a more mundane label: real estate swindler.
Trinidad and Tobago's energy minister says the Caribbean nation will offer five offshore blocks for natural gas exploration later this year.
Jamaica's prime minister is proposing to let police hold criminal suspects as long as 72 hours without bail as a measure to fight violent crime.
Three Americans who ran an Internet money-transmitting company in the Caribbean have pleaded guilty to money laundering and other charges, U.S. Justice Department officials have announced.
Haitians facing widespread unemployment or a minimum wage of less than US$2 a day are turning to the junk that litters the streets for survival.
The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 107 Haitian migrants to their homeland on Tuesday, the maritime agency said. Crew members on the Cutter Vigilant spotted a grossly overloaded sail freighter about 19 miles southwest of Great Inagua, Bahamas, on Sunday. The crew launched its small boat and distributed life jackets to 107 migrants.
Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition ward that his mother no longer tried to console him.
Every year, Haitians crowd into the basin of a sacred waterfall to relax and pray for a better future. This time, they asked for relief from soaring food prices and rampant unemployment.
The tiny island of Dominica plans to use $20 million from a trade group of leftist-ruled Latin American nations to improve housing, education and health services.
With two leading political parties protesting the vote, Haiti's lower Chamber of Deputies Thursday voted in favor of Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis's nomination for the post of prime minister.
Just as the gangster Al Capone was finally brought down on tax charges, one of Haiti's most notorious death squad leaders looks like he's headed to prison for mortgage fraud of all things
Haitian police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had stormed past barricades near the National Palace during a rally marking the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Selling everything from timeshares to T-shirts, ''barkers'' have been a constant presence -- and nuisance -- for tourists visiting the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Venturing to sea in tiny boats powered only by sails, fishermen in a remote village on Haiti's western shore struggled for generations through stormy seas and windless days to earn their keep. Now, outfitted with shiny new fiberglass boats, small outboard motors and sparkling new coolers provided by Food for the Poor, a South Florida charity, they have turned around their village's economy.
Callers to the Observer Radio program waste little time letting their hostilities loose. They complain bitterly about what they see as a spike in crime caused by Guyanese and Jamaicans. They blast ''foreigners'' flooding their schools and hospitals.
Audio | Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, discusses the plan