Hurricane Sandy hit eastern Jamaica directly, causing severe damage to crops and public infrastructure, but the IMF won’t give up its insistence on austerity measures.
Haiti suffered the worst damage of the Caribbean nations that Sandy affected, even though the storm’s center never passed over the country.
The Port-au-Prince chief prosecutor Jean Renel SĆ©natus was fired after he refused to arrest 36 Martelly opponents, including three lawyers who challenged the president’s record.
Spanish national Angel Francisco Carromero gets four years in the automobile accident that killed well-known dissident Oswaldo Payá—but Cuba and Spain may make a deal.
A right-wing Spanish politician with a history of speeding went on trial for allegedly causing a car accident in which the well-known Cuban dissident Oswaldo PayĆ” was killed.
A series of demonstrations that started in Cap-HaĆÆtien to protest rising food prices and alleged government corruption continued in various citiesāincluding Brooklyn, NY.
Thousands demonstrated in several cities to protest government corruption and a rise in the cost of basic foods. Hopes for an increase in the minimum wage may add to the tensions.
An oil spill at a refinery operated by the Venezuelan parastatal PDVSA on the Dutch Caribbean island of CuraƧao threatens a nature reserve which is a critical flamingo habitat.
The death of a pregnant 16-year-old with leukemia has reignited controversy over the 2010 Constitution’s Article 37, which bans all abortions, even when the mother’s life is in danger.
Police agents used tear gas to stop a group of Dominican youths of Haitian descent from marching to demand that the government respect their rights as citizens.
Local residents protested against the Barrick Gold Corporation’s giant Pueblo Viejo gold mine, which they said is contaminating water and affecting their health and their crops.
Puerto Rican legal experts say that a revised Penal Code that Gov. Luis FortuƱo that signed into law last month dramatically increases penalties for civil disobedience.
