Caribbean

Oscar brings winds, heavy rains to eastern Cuba after striking the Bahamas

1:09am October 21, 2024

Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing the Bahamas.

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Ernesto, now a hurricane, is drenching Puerto Rico and knocking out power

2:32pm August 14, 2024

by The Associated Press

Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in the U.S. territory without power as it threatened to become a major storm en route to Bermuda.

Puerto Rico cancels classes, activates National Guard as Tropical Storm Ernesto nears

10:47am August 13, 2024

by The Associated Press

Puerto Rico activated the National Guard and canceled the start of classes in public schools as forecasters warned that the U.S. territory would be hit by Tropical Storm Ernesto.

Moncher Metina outside her house in Limonade, Haiti, on March 17, 2024.

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A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government

5:01am April 18, 2024

by Eyder Peralta

Haiti is on the verge of collapse, with little to no government. But many Haitians have already learned to live without the support of the state, as NPR discovered traveling to Cap-Haïtien.

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Police transport escaped prisoners Atiba Stanislaus (far left) and Trevon Robertson in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on Monday. The men had escaped from a police holding cell in Grenada on Feb. 18 and are suspected of hijacking a catamaran while Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel, who disappeared, were aboard.

3 escaped inmates are charged with killing missing U.S. sailing couple in Caribbean

5:42pm March 07, 2024

by The Associated Press

Three escaped inmates from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada were charged in the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked, police said. The couple's bodies have not been found.

A pedestrian walks past the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. Gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers around the airport in the latest of a series of attacks on government sites.

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Haiti's prime minister is stranded abroad as gangs threaten 'civil war'

6:18pm March 06, 2024

Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.

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The yacht "Simplicity", that officials say was hijacked by three escaped prisoners with two people aboard, is docked at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coastguard Service Calliaqua Base, in Calliaqua, St. Vincent, on Friday.

Police suspect U.S. couple are dead after their boat was hijacked in the Caribbean

6:00pm February 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

The couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week by three escaped prisoners were presumed dead and likely had been thrown into the ocean, police said.

On Feb., 27, Laura Trevelyan and members of her family traveled to Grenada to issue a formal apology.

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British aristocrats ask King Charles to join a slavery reparations movement

3:38pm April 26, 2023

by Lisa Weiner

Two members of U.K. aristocratic families, Laura Trevelyan and David Lascelles, are apologizing for centuries-old injustices in the Caribbean, and asking others to join them in paying reparations.

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Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis, on Wednesday. A record amount of seaweed is smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados.

A record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean

11:00am August 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

Seaweed is smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados as tons of brown algae kill wildlife, choke the tourism industry and release toxic gases.

Felina Manita and her husband Jean are building a temporary home out of sticks after losing their home in Les Cayes in the earthquake on Saturday.

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A Tropical Storm Is Adding To Haiti's Misery Following A Devastating Earthquake

8:49am August 18, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

Relief efforts in Haiti are being greatly hampered by the torrential rains of Tropical Storm Grace. And many people are sleeping outside because of a fear of aftershocks.