By Editor-July 5th, 2023. CARICOM Leaders braved stormy weather in Port-of-Spain for a commemorative ceremony in observance of the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, where the then leaders of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas, on July 4, 1973, heralding the birth of Caricom. […]

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By Editor-July 5th, 2023. The US White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening after the Secret Service discovered suspicious-looking white powder in an area of the West Wing that is accessible to tourists and visitors. A preliminary test showed the powder was only cocaine, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. It was not immediately reported whether […]

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By Editor-July 4th, 2023. Nigel Farage, the British former politician-turned-broadcaster considered mainly responsible for Brexit, recently posted a six-minute video on Twitter blaming “serious political persecution” from an anti-Brexit banking industry. He claimed that his bank, believed to be Coutts, thad closed his accounts “for no reason”. This caused a furore in Britain, with many […]

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By Editor-July 4th, 2023. The Taliban is canceling women’s beauty parlours in Afghanistan, says a government spokesman, in the latest restriction on the rights and freedoms of women and girls in the strictly Muslim country. The government order, confirmed on Tuesday, followed the edicts barring women from education, public spaces and most forms of employment […]

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By Editor, July 4th, 2023. The current escalating security situation in Haiti was the by far the most important point raised by  United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres when he addressed the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) opening ceremony for its 45th Heads of Government meeting in Port-of-Spain. Guterres made a strong call on the community […]

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By Editor-July 4th, 2023. The Fourth of July is perhaps the most American of all holdidays with its parades, barbecues, hot dogs,  and cold beer and, of course, fireworks to celebrate the day when the United States declared its independence from Britain back in 1776. Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically […]

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By Editor-July 4th, 2023. Supermarket customers in New Zealand already are expected to bring their own shopping bags to grocery stores, but now they will have to bring their own reusable bags for fruits and vegetables too. New Zealand is the first major country in the world to ban single-use thin produce bags at stores […]

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By Editor-July 3rd, 2023. Antonio Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, has called for a “robust international force” to help Haiti’s beleaguered police fight criminal gangs on a visit to the Caribbean nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The visit on Saturday was Guterres’s first to Haiti as head of the UN and was meant to spotlight […]

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by Editor-July 3rd, 2023. “Coretta Scott King famously said that the fight for civil rights must be fought and won with each generation. We are that generation she spoke of,” said the vice president on stage Friday at the 29th Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans. “So, fight we must.” On both days she […]

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By Editor-July 3rd, 2023. It is still slow going in the war in Ukraine as Ukraine continues with its counteroffensive. Ukraine said Monday its forces had retaken 37 square kilometers of territory in eastern and southern Ukraine during the past week. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram that Ukrainian troops were advancing in […]

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