Caribbean

Authorities say a gang near Haiti’s capital has ambushed and killed three police officers in the latest attack against an under-resourced and underfunded police department that has reported nearly two dozen officers slain so far this year.

The potential loss of conch in the Bahamas reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods.

Doctors Without Borders says it has been forced to temporarily close its hospital in Cite Soleil given a sharp rise in gang violence that has left dozens dead in recent weeks.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a special guest at the CARICOM summit in the Bahamas this week because it has taken a leading role in helping Haiti confront its "horrific" gang violence crisis.

Haiti’s toxic slate of gangs are plundering the Caribbean nation. They are kidnapping, extorting and displacing civilians who have nothing left to give. And now, more than ever, they are using rape in their war for control.

U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired former soldiers from Colombia for the mission.

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.

At a time when democracy has withered in Haiti and gang violence has spiraled out of control, armed men like Jimmy Cherizier – known by the nickname Barbecue - have filled the power vacuum left by a crumbling government.

An investigation into a private investment firm in Jamaica where $12.7 million belonging to sprinter Usain Bolt has led to one of the largest fraud scandals to hit the Caribbean island. One top official has been forced to resign.

In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a cholera outbreak. "It's a collapse," one outgoing senator said.