Bahamas

US aborts search for dozens missing in boat disaster

Coast Guard says it has found four additional bodies from 39 migrants lost at sea off Florida but will end its rescue operations at sunset if it doesn't receive any new information.

Suicide is still a criminal offence in 20 countries

With some laws dating back as far as 160 years, criminalisation of suicide deter people from seeking help instead of saving their lives, campaigners say.

At-risk Caribbean scrambles to prepare for hurricanes during pandemic

UNICEF says that a busier than normal Atlantic Ocean hurricane season has been predicted for 2020, and Covid-19 could "spread easily in crowded emergency shelters."

Isaias downgraded to tropical storm on Florida approach

Isaias is expected to remain a hurricane through Monday, then slow weaken on its climb up the Atlantic seaboard.

Hurricane Isaias lashes the Bahamas as it bears down on Florida

Hurricane Isaias has lashed the Bahamas as it churns towards Florida, bringing new dangers to a US state suffering record deaths from an unrelenting coronavirus outbreak.

Still reeling from Hurricane Dorian, Bahamas faces Tropical Storm Humberto

Humberto is forecast to become a hurricane by Sunday night but is expected to stay offshore of Florida's eastern coast as it moves toward open waters.

Tropical Storm Humberto targets hurricane-hit Bahamas

The announcement from the National Hurricane Centre came after it had warned early Friday that a strengthening tropical depression was headed for the same islands hit by Dorian last week.

Tropical storm warning issued for hurricane-hit Bahamas

Bahamian meteorologists said the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, which were the worst-hit by Hurricane Dorian, were in the path of the approaching weather system.

New storm hits hurricane-ravaged Bahamas, could become tropical storm

Early Friday, tropical disturbances swept over the central Bahamas, packing winds of 45km/h and expected to drop 8 to 13cm of rain through Sunday.

1,300 still missing in hurricane-hit Bahamas - officials

Officials in the Bahamas believe that there are 1,300 people missing after Hurricane Dorian plowed into the islands, a sharp decline from the 2,500 listed on the missing registry a day earlier.

2,500 missing in Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian - official

At least 50 people died in the hurricane which slammed into the northern Bahamas as a Category 5 storm while officials say they expect the number to rise significantly.

Death toll from Hurricane Dorian rises to at least 50 in Bahamas

The death toll increased to 50 in the Bahamas, where Hurricane Dorian pummeled 320 km/h winds, according to a spokesman for the islands' National Emergency Management Agency.