By Santana Salmon St. Vincent and the Grenadines gave a red-carpet welcome to two members of Britain’s royal family, but a small group of protesters registered their objection to the visit and instead called for reparation for African slavery. Prince Edward, 58, and his wife, Sophie, 57, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, were greeted […]
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By Santana Salmon The United States Coast Guard says the crews of its cutters Joseph Tezanos and Heriberto Hernandez recently offloaded about 1,289 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated wholesale value of about US$11.7 million, and transferred custody of six suspected smugglers at Coast Guard Base San Juan following two separate vessel interdictions in the […]
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EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 21 April 2022 — Cuba has thanked the Russian government for a donation of 19,526 tons of wheat , which reached the island a month late due to Western sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine. The Cuban authorities received the support of the Russian Government in an act at the […]
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NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the detention of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Hernandez’s first court appearance after being extradited to the United States on drug and weapons charges. U.S. prosecutors said Hernandez, once a Washington ally, received millions of dollars from drug traffickers, including Mexico’s […]
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By Neil Marks The logo of Exxon Mobil Corporation is shown on a monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, December 30, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo April 24 (Reuters) – Guyana sold its first share of crude oil from the country’s newest offshore production facility to Exxon Mobil […]
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By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR, April 24 (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings. The measures, which enact emergency powers to limit some constitutional rights, went […]
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MANAGUA, April 24 (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government on Sunday said it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), a move the group swiftly decried as violating international norms and unable to go into effect for another year. Nicaragua’s government also said it had closed the local OAS office and revoked the […]
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COVID third leading cause of US deaths last year: CDC © Associated Press/Matt Rourke COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data illustrate the toll from the virus, with 415,000 COVID-19 deaths last year. Coronavirus […]
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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett released the following statement regarding the Caribbean Financial Access Roundtable co-hosted by Chairwoman Maxine Waters of the House Committee on Financial Services and the Honorable Mia Amor Mottley QC MP, Prime Minister of Barbados: “I am very pleased with the outcome of the Caribbean Financial Access Roundtable, […]
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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the USVI, a Member of the House Ways and Means, Budget and Agriculture Committees, released the following statement regarding the inaugural Congressional Caucus on Black Innovation (CBI), along with her colleagues and CBI co-chairs, Representative Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), a Member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure and Armed […]
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