Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced that Bahamians will go to the polls on September 16, eight months before a general election is constitutionally due. Minnis’ announcement came after Commissioner of Police Paul Rolle, in his capacity as Provost Marshall, read a proclamation from Sir Cornelius
The Caribbean Young Democrat Union (CYDU), the Youth Wing of the CDU, in partnership with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) hosted a Power Panel on “Youth Voter Apathy in the Caribbean” on Thursday 12th August 2021. The event was hosted by Mr Nick Francis,
Former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Sir Lester Bird will be laid to rest on 26 August 2021. A subcommittee of the executive body met with Bird’s family following his death on Monday to arrange the funeral. A note from the cabinet meeting gave the following details
The murder investigation of President Jovenel Moïse made a violent turn for authorities Thursday when a judicial clerk working for the case was found dead in Port-au-Prince. The victim, Ernst Lafortune, was having an evening meeting with his superior, Mathieu Chanlatte, a judge investigating the murder
After a successful election that led to the landslide victory of the Labour Party in St. Lucia, the new officials including the island's elected Prime Minister will be sworn in Thursday, and a new cabinet will also be announced. The ceremony will be held in the
Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) won a landslide victory in the 2021 general elections. Preliminary results declared the SLP has won 13 seats, the United Workers Party (UWP) won 2 seats and the last 2 seats went to independent candidates Richard Frederick and Stephenson King. Frederick is
Cuba’s defense minister and the communist nation’s special forces brigade were both slapped with U.S. sanctions for the "suppression of peaceful protests" that happened on July 11. In a report by CNBC, the sanctions prohibits any transactions from entities in the United States to Cuban Defense
Fed up with shortages of food and medicine, rising prices, power outages, and the many more problems that have beset Cuba, angry Cuban citizens took to the streets some rare and large-scale demonstrations on July 11, which surprised not only the Cuban government but also the
The assassination of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse on July 7 in his residence at Port-au-Prince poses risk of destabilising an already ailing nation, which has been marred with high violence mostly triggered by local gangs and Moïse’s alleged undemocratic behavior. Analysts interviewed by Americas Daily
EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO, ASSOCIATED PRESS—An already struggling and chaotic Haiti stumbled into an uncertain future Thursday after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, followed by a gunfight in which authorities said police killed seven suspects, detained six others and freed three officers being
