The search resumed Monday for five of seven crewmen who were on board a St. Vincent and the Grenadines registered cargo vessel that capsized in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. Two of the MV Fair Chance vessel crewmen were rescued by a passing powerboat and taken to Trinidad. […]
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CNW- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are expected to meet later this week to discuss the controversy that has arisen following Jamaica’s decision to announce that its Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith will challenge the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General in June. At the end of […]
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Giacomo Tognini Forbes Staff From Caribbean islands to northern Europe, these nations finally have a billionaire citizen. There are 87 fewer billionaires in the world this year, according to Forbes’ 2022 World’s Billionaires list. But even as countries like Russia, where the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions have sent markets plummeting, and China, which […]
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By Jorge Engels and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) Some 130 people have been killed and more than 3,000 have been forcibly displaced this year as violence has surged in eastern Colombia, according to the United Nations and the Catholic Church. The institutions have called on armed groups to stop the violence and respect international humanitarian […]
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By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI, April 4 (Reuters) – A former Colombian soldier pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges by U.S. prosecutors that he conspired to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. The U.S. Justice Department in January said Mario Palacios was part […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun and Sebastian Castaneda LIMA, April 4 (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, banning people from leaving their homes in an attempt to curb protests against rising fuel and fertilizer costs that have spread throughout the country. “The cabinet has agreed to declare a […]
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BRASILIA, April 4 (Reuters) – Hundreds of indigenous people began gathering in the Brazilian capital on Monday for a 10-day protest camp to defend their land rights and oppose a government bill in Congress that would allow mining and oil exploration on their reservations. Organizers are hoping to gather 7,000 people from 200 of Brazil’s […]
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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO, April 4 (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s long-awaited apology to Canada’s indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and indigenous leaders […]
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US Okays $10b for Domestic Covid Fight, None Worldwide Senators in both parties have reached a deal to provide $10 billion for the fight against COVID-19, but the agreement leaves out funding for the global virus response, according to Senate aides. The agreement could clear the path for Congress to finally pass some new funding […]
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by Rachel Frazin The Hill The United Nations’ climate change panel is calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The latest report from the panel says that by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut by at least 43 […]
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