By Charis McGowan Santiago, Chile BBC- The late mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr imagined sport in everything. Whether it was a city wall or a mountain slope, Mohr would see its sporting potential. His hometown of Santiago – Chile’s bustling capital surrounded by the snow-capped Andes mountains – was the perfect place to cultivate that […]
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During the Omicron Wave, Death Rates Soared for Older People Last year, people 65 and older died from Covid at lower rates than in previous waves. But with Omicron and waning immunity, death rates rose again. By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz NY Times Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 31, 2022) — A number of past and present staff members, business places and persons involved in agriculture and fisheries were recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture at an awards dinner on May 29, 2022, at the Malcolm Guishard Recreational Park Centre. The event brought the curtains down on the 10th Agriculture Awareness Month […]
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A bus from the company “La voix des anges” with 43 passengers on board, which provides the Cayes-Port-au-Prince route, was targeted in Martissant (at the southern entrance to the capital) by heavily armed individuals who control the RN#2, confirmed Méhu Changeux, President of the union of the Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti (APCH). […]
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Passengers were heard screaming “oh my god” and “holy sh**” as the world’s longest cruise ship in Falmouth, Jamaica, drifted towards the port and crashed into a pier By Rachel Hagan Daily Mirror,UK Royal Caribbean’s The Harmony of the Seas 1,188-foot cruise ship crashed into a pier in Jamaica. At the country’s busy port […]
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By Ismail Shakil and Anna Mehler Paperny OTTAWA, May 30 (Reuters) – Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns. The new legislation, which resurrects […]
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By Jasper Ward NASSAU, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States needs do more to control the illegal flow of weapons to The Bahamas, the country’s prime minister said on Monday, amid growing concern about gun violence and homicides in the Caribbean nation. More than 90% of guns confiscated and used as murder weapons in […]
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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, May 30 (Reuters) – Two leading Cuban artist-dissidents faced their first day of trial on Monday after being detained nearly a year ago, part of an ongoing judicial process that human rights groups have called a “farce” and a “circus”. The activists, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo, are […]
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By Jose Cortes PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico, May 31 (Reuters) – Mexican officials worked into Tuesday to clear highways blocked by mudslides along Mexico’s southern coast after record-breaking storm Agatha battered the region with torrential rains and strong winds. Agatha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 105 miles […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Monday, May 30, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Russia widens gas cuts to Europe, Canada introduces a law to freeze handgun sales, and Shanghai prepares to lift its lockdown Today’s biggest stories An evacuation convoy travels from Russian troop-occupied Kupiansk town, along a damaged road, […]
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