World Oct 30 Caribbean nations hit by Hurricane Melissa begin long road to recovery By William Brangham, Eliot Barnhart
World Oct 30 After Melissa’s destruction, Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces People across the northern Caribbean are digging out from the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa as deaths from the storm climbed. By Ariel Fernandez, Andrea Rodriguez, John Myers Jr., Associated Press
World Oct 29 Hurricane Melissa leaves dozens dead, causes widespread damage in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba At least 23 people have died across Haiti and 13 are missing, Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said in a statement, revising the death toll downward. Twenty of those reported dead and 10 of the missing are from the southern coastal… By Ariel Fernandez, Andrea Rodriguez, John Myers Jr., Evens Sanon, Associated Press
Nation Oct 28 3 things to know about Hurricane Melissa Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest level, when it made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica. By Isabella O'Malley, Associated Press
World Oct 22 A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says The man, Roberto Mosquera del Peral, was among a group of migrants sent to Eswatini in mid-July as part of the Trump administration's expanding third-country deportation program. The program has been criticized by rights groups, who say it denies migrants… By Gerald Imray, Associated Press
Oct 22 Tropical Storm Melissa brings heavy rain to Haiti and Dominican Republic By Dánica Coto, Associated Press On Wednesday, the slow-moving storm was about 305 miles south-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Continue reading
Sep 29 1 man killed in Cuba as Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto threaten Bahamas and Bermuda By Dánica Coto, Associated Press Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools Monday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed at least one man. Continue reading
Sep 26 Assata Shakur, fugitive Black activist who escaped life sentence for killing police officer, dies in Cuba By Philip Marcelo, Associated Press In her telling, and in the minds of her supporters, she was pursued for crimes she didn't commit or that were justified. The FBI put Shakur on its list of “most wanted terrorists.”… Continue reading
May 30 Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole of 500,000 people from 4 countries By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Continue reading
Mar 15 Electric grid failure in Cuba leaves millions without power for 4th time in 6 months By Associated Press The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the… Continue reading