Caribbean (Americas)

FILE PHOTO: A worker of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority (PREPA) repairs part of the electrical grid in Manati, Puerto Rico October 30, 2017.
Puerto Rico woke up in darkness on Tuesday morning after a power grid failure left nearly all of the island without electricity.
People load a truck with goods to be relocated prior to the arrival of Tropical Storm Rafael in Guanimar, Cuba, November 5, 2024.
Hurricane Rafael is passing through the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and is forecast to rapidly intensify before making landfall in western Cuba, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
FILE PHOTO: A man uses his phone to scan a QR code of the digital payment app Paytm after purchasing a cold beverage at a shop in Kolkata, India on July 9, 2024.
The overseas arm of India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) will build a digital payments system for Trinidad and Tobago, modelled after India's United Payments Interface (UPI).
FILE PHOTO: An area affected by an oil spill in Tobago Island, Trinidad and Tobago, is seen in this handout taken February 11, 2024.
First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the Caribbean country's waters and clean areas of Tobago island
FILE PHOTO: Police officers ride with detained Haitian nationals to a migration clearance centre to verify their papers as the government is stepping up deportations, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic November 15, 2022.
Hundreds of Haitians returned from the Dominican Republic on Thursday after the Dominican president announced an imminent total border shutdown.
Smoke billows following an explosion in a building, in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic August 14, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from social media video.
The death toll after Monday's explosion near the capital of the Dominican Republic has risen to at least 27, CNN reported on Wednesday.
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