Caribbean

Zeta gains strength near Cuba as historic hurricane season continues

Tropical Storm Zeta is gaining strength with sustained winds of 400 kilometres as it skirts past Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula to enter the Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Sally: US Gulf Coast braces for second round of flooding

Tropical storm Sally has left a trail of destruction across the Gulf Coast and Its remnants continued to push deep inland with heavy downpours, threatening flooding across the South all the way to Virginia.

Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state

Barbados Governor General Sandra Mason says the country will become a republic when it celebrates its 55th anniversary of independence from the British empire.

Jamaica ruling party achieves landslide victory in lowest voter turnout

Scores of Jamaica Labour Party supporters commenced celebrations in Kingston even before the polls closed.

US Fed allows inflation to rise, won't raise interest rates

Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell's announcement at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference in practice means the central bank will focus on job growth, tolerating higher inflation and keeping borrowing rates lower for longer.

Even fastest man alive may have been outpaced by coronavirus

Jamaican radio station Nationwide News reports that Usain Bolt, who holds world records in the 100m and 200m distance, had contracted the virus.

Two tropical storms to hit US coast two days apart with hurricane force

The last time two tropical storms were in the Gulf together was in 1959

Potential hurricane threat to US as twin storms approach

Pair of cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early headed for US Gulf Coast and will spin over Gulf's warm waters simultaneously, in rare weather event.

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."

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.

Opposition leads partial results as Dominicans vote for new president

Luis Abinader, the frontrunner in the Caribbean nation's presidential race, is seeking to end 16 years of unbroken rule by the centre-left Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).

Dust cloud from Sahara looms over Cuba, Caribbean and Florida

Dust cloud sweeps across the Atlantic from Africa over the past week, covering the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico and hitting south Florida in the United States.