Caribbean

Workers clean the beach after an oil spill, in Boca de Aroa, Venezuela August 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Hernandez
Environment

Oil spill reported off Venezuela's Caribbean coast

Biologist Eduardo Klein posted satellite images on X that he said showed an oil slick of about 225 square kilometres (87 square miles) in the Golfe Triste and completely covering Morrocoy National...

President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader speaks after he assumed his second four-year term in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Fran Afonso
Politics

Dominican Republic's Abinader vows economic growth, social reforms in second term

The "pirate" party boat The Pearl is stuck on rocks after Hurricane Beryl passed in Gros Islet, St. Lucia July 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Jarmal Mc lennon
Environment

3 dead after Hurricane Beryl hits eastern Caribbean islands

Waves crash into a sea wall after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago July 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
Environment

Hurricane Beryl 'extremely dangerous' as it gains strength in Caribbean

Hurricane Beryl, June 30, 2024. Photo: NOAA/Handout REUTERS
Environment

Beryl, earliest Category 4 hurricane on record, hurtles towards Caribbean

Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits next to Prince Charles during the State Opening of Parliament in central London, Britain June 21, 2017. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

Charles' succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

FILE PHOTO: Ash and smoke billow as the La Soufriere volcano erupts in Kingstown on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Robertson S. Henry/File Photo
World+Biz

St Vincent's Caribbean residents wake to ash-covered streets, rumbling volcano

Ash and smoke billow as the La Soufriere volcano erupts in Kingstown on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Robertson S. Henry
World+Biz

Volcano erupts in southern Caribbean, sparking evacuation 'frenzy'

ALEJO MANUEL AVILA/ZUMAPRESS/NEWSCOM via IMF Blog
Global Economy

Latin America and Caribbean’s winding road to recovery

PHOTO: ELIANADULINS/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES VIA IMF BLOG
Global Economy

Pandemic persistence clouds Latin America and Caribbean recovery

UN chief Antonio Guterres. File Photo: Collected
Coronavirus chronicle

Latin America, the Caribbean now ‘hotspot of the pandemic’: UN Chief

File Photo: Gravediggers carry a coffin during a collective burial of people that have passed away due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil April 28, 2020. Picture taken April 28, 2020/ Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

Study projects 388,300 Covid-19 deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean by October