November 7, 2023 Newlywed dies in Caribbean honeymoon mishap days after tying knot The family of a young Florida man is shattered after he died in a waterskiing accident on his honeymoon in St. Lucia just three days after his wedding.
October 25, 2023 Reagan's Grenada response has lessons for Biden, but Israel-Gaza threat is more complicated: expert President Ronald Reagan in 1983 ordered the invasion of Grenada after the barracks bombing in Beirut and amid fears of U.S. citizens being taken hostage on the island nation should civil conflict continue. President Biden might take some inspiration from his predecessor as faces the most difficult international crisis of his own administration.
October 20, 2023 Main suspect in 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse gets arrested Former government employee Joseph Badio, who was fired weeks before the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, has been arrested.
October 3, 2023 Security force sent to Caribbean island ravaged by crime crisis as US pledges $100M in aid Kenya first proposed the security force in the summer as Haiti begged the international community to provide police officers and assistance to clamp down on the crisis.
October 2, 2023 UN Security Council approves sending a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight violent gangs A multinational force led by Kenya will be deployed to troubled Haiti in order to combat rampant gang violence and insecurity. It marks the first such move in over 20 years.
August 28, 2023 Former US swim champion Jamie Cail died from fentanyl intoxication, Virgin Islands police reveal Jamie Cail of New Hampshire, who was found dead in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this year, died from accidental fentanyl poisoning, police say.
August 21, 2023 Coast Guard rescues man stranded on Bahamas island for three days after sailboat breaks down A man stranded on a island in the Caribbean for three days was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, authorities said.
August 2, 2023 Ex-Auburn football player helps bail out wife, her lover who are accused of plotting his murder: report A Georgia husband helped his wife, who is accused of trying to kill him amid an acrimonious divorce, and her alleged accomplices get bailed out of a Bahamas prison, according to a local report.
July 31, 2023 Haitians protest American nurse's kidnapping: 'She is doing good work' Haitians rallied Monday in Port-au-Prince to protest ongoing gang violence, including a recent incident in which an American nurse and her daughter were abducted by armed men.
July 26, 2023 Alabama woman who died mysteriously in US Virgin Islands remembered as award-winning dancer An Alabama woman, 22, is remembered for her gift for dance after her tragic and unexplained death June 6 in her apartment in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
