PHOTOS: Hurricane Irma’s destruction in the Caribbean

SEPTEMBER 06: Debris is seen during a storm surge near the Puerto Chico Harbor during the passing of Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. The category 5 storm is expected to pass over Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands today, and make landfall in Florida by the weekend.

What Are The Air Force’s ‘Hurricane Hunter’ Planes?

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Levi Denham, a WC-130J Hercules aircraft weather reconnaissance loadmaster assigned to the 53rd Reconnaissance Squadron, performs pre-engine start-up inspections in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, on Sept.

Irma’s victims in the Caribbean brace for another hurricane

7, 2017, photo, damage is left after Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda. Hurricane Irma battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday as the fearsome Category 5 storm continued a rampage through the Car... .

Hurricane Irma slams Turks and Caicos on path to Florida

Hurricane Irma battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday and Cuba evacuated tourists from beachside resorts as the fearsome storm continued a rampage through the Caribbean that has killed at least 11 people, with Florida in its sights. Waves as high as 20 feet were expected in the Turks and Caicos.

Powerful Category 4 Hurricane Irma aims at Caribbean islands

Officials across the northeastern Caribbean canceled airline flights, shuttered schools and urged people to hunker down indoors as Hurricane Irma barreled toward the region as a powerful Category 4 storm expected to strengthen more before nearing land late Tuesday. States of emergency were declared in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and all of Florida while people on various Caribbean islands boarded up homes and rushed to find last-minute supplies, forming long lines outside supermarkets and gas stations.

Hurricane Irma now Cat 4 as it heads for eastern Caribbean

Hurricane Irma grew into a powerful Category 4 storm Monday as it approached the northeastern Caribbean and was forecast to begin buffeting the region Tuesday. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph late Monday afternoon, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said additional strengthening was expected.

Trinidad and Tobago a hub for illegal immigrants – report

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Global Detention Project, an international group based in Switzerland, says Trinidad and Tobago is a hub for an alarming number of illegal immigrants. In its online report, Global Detention Project says there are currently 100,000 undocumented migrants living in the twin island republic .

U.S. says envoys in Cuba targeted

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday that U.S. diplomats in Havana were the victims of "health attacks" that left them with hearing loss -- the most definitive U.S. statement yet on a series of incidents that have puzzled analysts of U.S.-Cuban relations. Tillerson's comments came two days after the State Department issued a vague statement saying there had been "incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms."

Reports from Cuba: Discriminatory prices: How much do things cost?

The establishment of Cuba's two different currencies , and their different applications , according to the Government's convenience, besides sowing economic chaos, also features an immoral component for those affected by it. Setting aside the unfair and all too well known problem of being paid wages in CUP and having to make purchases in CUC, as well as the exorbitant prices of products, there are other no less arbitrary manifestations, such as the 12.5% ?? subtracted from every dollar when exchanged for CUC.

Cuba’s fourth-world government-run healthcare has Cubans looking for care from private doctors

Cuba's Castro dictatorship provides all its citizens with excellent healthcare at no cost to them whatsoever: This lie has been reported as fact for decades, validating the old adage that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth. In reality, unless you are of the Castro elite or a high-ranking communist party official, Cuba's government-run healthcare system is fourth-world at best.

Amnesty International takes up case of Leyva family hunger strikers

Three siblings sentenced to one-year of prison for allegedly leaving their house during the state morning following Fidel Castro s death, are on hunger strike after being harassed and intimidated in Cuba since their conditional release in April. Their sentences should be quashed and their release made unconditional.

‘Grotesque Spectacle’: Cuban Foreign Minister Slams Trump

Cuba's Foreign Minister lashed out at Donald Trump's decision to restrict U.S. travel and business with his country on Monday, calling the president's announcement last week "a grotesque spectacle that came out of the Cold War." "There will not be a presidential directive from the U.S. that will alter the direction of Cuba," Bruno Rodriguez told journalists in Vienna, where he was meeting with Austrian officials.

Republicans divided as Trump reverses some Obama Cuba policy

President Donald Trump's decision to reverse some Obama-era Cuba policies landed with a thud among many congressional Republicans who say the new approach surrenders a potentially lucrative market for American goods and services to competitors. While anti-Castro conservatives hailed Trump's partial roll-back of President Barack Obama's detente, a number of other GOP lawmakers, particularly from farm states, criticized the change as misguided and isolationist.