The United States is deploying several dozen disaster relief workers, including urban search and rescue teams, to Caribbean island nations as they deal with devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC — Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders have called for the urgent renewal of two initiatives that provide duty-free treatment in the United States for certain Haitian-manufactured textile and apparel goods.

The UN Security Council also sanctioned the two men and extended an arms embargo on Haiti in place since 2022.

Volunteers assemble relief packages for Hurricane Melissa at the Global Empowerment Mission headquarters in Miami, Fla., on October 27, 2025. The traditional role that the United States plays in disaster relief around the world will be affected by the dismantling of USAID.

With three months remaining in Haiti’s rocky political transition, United Nations Security Council members are calling on the country’s leaders and politicians to quickly set aside their differences and avoid a political vacuum.

State Department officials have asked the Pentagon to join the U.S. response to Hurricane Melissa, in a test of the Trump administration’s disaster-response capabilities after major cuts to foreign aid.

Office on Drugs and Crime said that the continuing escalation of gang violence and instability in Haiti has led to recent

Up to 500,000 illegal weapons ranging from handguns to battlefield-grade semi-automatic rifles are thought to be in the hands of gangs in Haiti, even though the Caribbean country has been under a UN arms embargo for the last three years.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — Melissa began affecting the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.