Little over two years after the last election, Kittitians and Nevisians are back at the polls looking to elect a government for the next five years. In 2020, Team Unity led by Dr Timothy Harris stormed to victory winning nine of the 11 seats. This time around the dynamic would be different with the breaking […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Rossalyn Warren Hello Here’s what you need to know. China fired multiple missiles around Taiwan as it launched unprecedented military drills, parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre urge a judge to block payments to Alex Jones, and Kenya gets ready to hold elections. […]
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By Santana Salmon Police in The Bahamas are seeking to identify a child, whose body, clad only in underwear, was found in a pond near the Oakes Field Sports Centre Golf Academy on Tuesday. Police said they believe the child had been there for at least 24 hours. He is one of three persons […]
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Danica Coto San juan, puerto rico The Associated Press Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases. More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June, shattering the all-time record, set in 2018, […]
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COVID placeholder, COVID-19, Map KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica on Tuesday recorded 67 new cases of COVID-19 and three more virus-related deaths, bringing the total confirmed cases to 146,608 and the death toll to 3,198. Of the newly reported cases, there were 43 females and 24 males – with ages ranging from six months to 108 […]
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BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC) –Police have detained 31 “active gang members” as the authorities declared a state of emergency to quell gang warfare in the Lake Independence area that occupies portions of western and southern Belize City. Police said that those detained belong to the PIV and Backalands gangs that have been embroiled in a bitter […]
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LIMA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Peruvian Prime Minister Anibal Torres suddenly resigned on Wednesday morning, amid widening criminal probes centered on President Pedro Castillo, who has grown increasingly isolated after one year in office. Torres said on Twitter his resignation was due to “personal reasons.” A lawyer, Torres was seen as one of Castillo’s most […]
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MEXICO CITY, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Mexico, including dozens of soldiers, were working desperately on Wednesday to reach ten miners trapped in a flooded coal mine following the collapse of an inner wall, the ministry handling the disaster said. Three miners had been rescued and hospitalized, the Security and Citizen Protection Ministry said […]
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Incoming Colombian President Gustavo Petro will propose the Clan del Golfo crime gang disarm and inform the government about its drug trafficking in exchange for unspecified incentives, his foreign minister said on Wednesday. Petro, a 62-year-old economist who will take office on Sunday, originally said the […]
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By Marc Frank HAVANA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Cuba announced it will begin purchasing on Thursday dollars and other convertible currencies at nearly five times the current rate in an effort to undercut the informal money market and capture the funds. Central Bank President Marta Wilson Gonzalez, appearing on state-run television on Wednesday evening, said […]
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