HAVANA, May 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Havana began issuing a trickle of immigrant visas to Cubans this week, making good on an earlier promise to restart visa processing on the island after a four-year hiatus. The State Department under former U.S. president Donald Trump sharply scaled back embassy staff in 2017 following […]
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Wrestling star Ismael Borrero has become the latest Cuban athlete to defect. Borrero, who won gold in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, abandoned the Cuban delegation while they were in Mexico for the Pan-American Wrestling Championships, a Cuban official said. Cuban athletes have a long history of defecting while competing abroad. The Cuban Institute […]
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Dominican diplomat Carlos Guillén has been freed four days after he was abducted by a gang in Haiti, an official says. Dominican Republic’s foreign minister, Roberto Álvarez, wrote on Twitter that Mr Guillén was “safe and sound”. Mr Álvarez did not say how Mr Guillén had been freed but thanked “all those who actively took […]
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BBC- Colombia has extradited the drug baron leader of the country’s biggest crime gang to the US, Colombia’s president has announced. President Iván Duque said Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was the world’s most dangerous trafficker. Otoniel led the Gulf Clan cartel and is wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges. His […]
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BY JOSHUA GOODMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS The premier of the British Virgin Islands could be released on a $500,000 bond as he awaits trial on charges tied to a U.S. government narcotics sting, a federal judge in Miami said Wednesday. In a surprise decision, federal court Judge Alicia Otazo-Reyes rejected prosecutors’ argument that Andrew Fahie would flee […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 04, 2022) — A two-member delegation from neighbouring Anguilla lauded the strides made in the agriculture sector on Nevis while on a one-day fact-finding mission to the island on April 27, 2022. Hon. Kyle Hodge, Minister of Economic Development, Natural Resources and Information Technology in Anguilla, and Ms. Melissa Meade, Chief Natural Resources […]
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The Mexican Caribbean is seeing a tremendous increase in sargassum deposits across its beaches costing the tourism industry and local government hundreds of thousands. The arrival of over thirty thousand tonnes of smelly seaweed is forecasted this week, but poor weather conditions have slowed the installation of preventative measures. The Navy has sent out 26 […]
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By Santana Salmon CNW The Guyana Media and Communications Academy was launched on Tuesday with the government indicating that it will be a virtual academy, offering those who secure a free license from the government, access to world-class learning and certification opportunities. Minister with Responsibility for Public Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister, […]
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Trending | View in Browser May 04, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day. Today’s Headlines EU leader calls for Russian oil ban in new set of sanctions BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s leader on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to […]
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By Santana Salmon CNW Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told voters that the country is “months away” from the next general election. This is at odds with the main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) call on him to immediately announce an election date. The last general election was held March 21, 2018, […]
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