Businessman Franklin Torres received an eerie Whatsapp message on a recent Sunday evening. “Good evening Franki, this is the Jalisco New Generation”  (name of a Mexican drugs cartel) the message read, in barely intelligible Spanish. “If you block me, you’ll get into problems. I need $6,000– I’m watching you, your wife and kids.” Torres, a […]

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Herman Andaya, the administrator of Maui’s emergency management agency has resigned, citing health reasons, Maui County said Thursday – just a day after saying that he had no regrets about not activating sirens to warn residents of wildfires. More than 100 people died in last weeks fire in the town of Lahaina, when fires quickly […]

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By Sir Ronald Sanders   Haiti needs “to get its political and governance act together”.  That is among the important messages that UN Secretary General, António Guterres, delivered to the UN Security Council in a letter on August 14, 2023. Guterres’ letter was a response to the Security Council’s request for proposals to tackle the […]

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 17, 2023 (MMS-SKN) — Pre-launch activities for the new Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, whose motto is ‘Building Businesses, Fuelling Innovation’ kicked off Tuesday evening August 15 with the spectacular All White Silent Sweat Fete, a high-energy, outdoor networking event that was held on the grounds of Port Zante’s cruise passengers […]

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Britney Spears ’ husband, Sam Asghari, has filed for divorce from the singer  just 14 months after a lavish wedding ceremony in California. A person familiar with the filing, who is close to Asghari but not authorised to speak publicly, confirmed the filing happened on Wednesday, hours after several media outlets, including TMZ and People […]

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Former president of the US Donald Trump is now facing four trials on 91 separate counts whose maximum sentences, could potentially amount to hundreds of years of prison time. The cases’ verdicts will not just determine what happens to Donald Trump. They could be the closest thing to an official pronouncements on some of the […]

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Public schools on Maui started the process of reopening and traffic resumed on a major access road in signs of recovery a week after wildfires demolished a historic town and killed at least 110 people. At least three schools untouched by flames in Lahaina, where entire neighborhoods were reduced to ash, are being assessed after […]

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said most of its member states are ready to take part in a united show of military strength for an intervention in Niger following a military coup there late last month in which the elected President was ousted from office. Defence chiefs from the 15-member regional […]

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If Javier Milei, the front-runner in the campaign for the presidency, wins the election scheduled for later this year in Argentina, the country’s own currency, the Argentine peso could be retired and replaced with the US dollar, joining various nations like Ecuador, the British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, El Salvador, and others which have currencies […]

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Sales of the most popular American beer brand Bud Light have continued to slide, months after the company was hit with a consumer backlash over a social media promotion featuring controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. According to new Nielsen data, cited by Yahoo Finance, Bud Light sales plummeted 26.5% for the week ending August 5, […]

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