More than 50 prison guards and seven police officers have been taken hostage in several jails in Ecuador, according to officials in Ecuador, with a dentention center for juvenile offenders being burned to the ground, and car bombs going off in various parts of the country, often close to law enforcement installations. Two car bombs […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (August 30, 2023)-The Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM)-led Nevis Island Administration (NIA) has announced the launch of a Daycare Assistance Subsidy Programme that will provide vouchers to assist persons with paying for daycare services for their children. The Honourable Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis, made the announcement at his monthly press conference on […]
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Authorities in the Argentine province of Río Negro in Patagonia Thursday closed public access to several beaches on the Atlantic Ocean shore following the appearance of dead and dying sea lions, it was reported. The municipality of Viedma, the province’s capital, decreed the closure for 14 days of vehicular access to the beaches between Balneario […]
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Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Ian Gooding Edghill, has resolutely reiterated that the Grantley Adams International Airport is not for sale and the name will not change under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP). He made the statement at a town hall meeting held last Friday evening at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre that aimed to […]
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Tian Jenssen, the chief of staff to the secretary general of NATO, recently came under heavy criticism when he discussed possible options for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine that did not envision a complete Russian defeat. This provoked a furious response from Ukrainian officials who are apparently still expecting to win the […]
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JetBlue is continuing to add warm-weather destination flights to its roster — it’s latest addition? The Caribbean island of St. Kitts and tickets are on sale now. Travelers can purchase tickets now for scheduled flight service that starts on November 2, 2023. The 4-hour and 45-minute flight to St. Kitts from New York is operated […]
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A former Welsh politician has asked to be removed from research that connects her to a slave-owning relative, the BBC has reported. Antoinette Sandbach, who was a Welsh Assembly member for the North Wales region, was named as a descendant of slave owner Samuel Sandbach in a video published in 2021 by academic Malik Al Nasir. […]
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The US Embassy in Haiti has issued an advisory to all US citizens currently in Haiti, advising them to evacuate the country immediately by air. The possibility of crossing over the border into the Dominican Republic is not included, as presumably travel by road is considered too dangerous, although there is a bus service between […]
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At least 70 people have been killed in a fire at a five-storey “hijacked” building used by homeless people in Johannesburg’s central business district, emergency services officials say. The fire alarm was raised at 1:30am on Thursday (23:30 GMT on Wednesday). The cause of the fire remains unknown and the death toll is expected to rise, […]
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