The first asylum-seekers stepped on board controversial floating barge housing units on the South Coast of England yesterday. The barge program is part of the government’s plan to make life a little less comfortable for people who arrive illegally in cross-channel boats expecting to be given accommodation in luxury tourist hotels. Fifteen migrants boarded the […]

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The Amazon climate summit is over and a final joint declaration, called the Belem Declaration, has created an alliance for combatting forest destruction without any overall conclusion or guiding principle,  with countries left to pursue their individual goals to restrict further deforestation. The nearly 10,000-word road map asserted Indigenous rights and protections, while also agreeing […]

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Two weekends ago, five people sat down for a family meal in a tiny Australian town south of Melbourne, but less than a week later, three would be dead, a fourth fighting for life, and the fifth under investigation for potentially poisoning her guests with wild mushrooms. But the 48-year-old woman who cooked the lunch […]

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Jamaica’s brilliant run at the Women’s World Cup ended Tuesday as Catalina Usme scored the only goal conceded by Jamaica in the entrire tournament to give Colombia’s “Superpowers” a 1-0 victory over the Reggae Girlz to secure their first ever quarter-final against European champions England. The South Americans, also known as the “Coffee Growers” failed […]

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A female passenger who tried to fly to a resort with her French Bulldog as a cabin passenger apparently abandoned the pet in a short-term parking lot after airline staff refused to let the pet board the aircraft as an emotional support animal, the local police department said. The Allegheny County Police Department wrote on […]

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Delta Air Lines has announced it is increasing the number of flights to Latin America and the Caribbean next winter with more flights to popular winter vacation destinations from Costa Rica to San Juan, and including extra Saturday flights to St. Thomas, St. Maarten, and Punta Cana. The airline will plan to fly more than […]

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Several thousand people, many with their faces covered to conceal their identities, marched through Haiti’s capital on Monday demanding protection from violent gangs who are pillaging neighborhoods in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond. “We want security!” the crowd chanted as it marched for two hours from the troubled community of Carrefour-Feuilles to Champ de Mars […]

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This week, delegates arrived at Belém’s international airport  in the Amazon forests of Brazil to participate  in a summit called by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to bring together the eight South American countries whose territories include part of the Amazon basin. Representatives from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela will […]

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Bridgetown Friday 4 August 2023. The CARICOM office of the Afreximbank Bank was officially opened on August 4th, 2023, while reaffirming the US$1.5 billion credit limit made available to support eligible CARICOM States. The Afreximbank CARICOM Office will support the implementation of the Partnership Agreement between Afreximbank and CARICOM member states aimed at expanding Africa-Caribbean […]

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The Jeddah summit organized by Saudi Arabia on finding a peaceful end to Russia’s war against Ukraine finished up on Sunday, with the participants agreeing to continue discussions toward peace, according to the closing statement released by host Saudi Arabia. Senior officials from 42 countries including the US, China, South Africa,  and Brazil participated in […]

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