By Jonathan Mason–June 13th, 2023. The four children rescued in the Colombian Amazon after wandering the jungle for 40 days following a plane crash are showing “satisfactory” recovery, welfare officials said, as reports of a battle for custody of the siblings emerged. The four Huitoto Indigenous children – Lesly, Soleiny, Tien Noriel and Cristin – aged 13, […]
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By Editor-June 13th, 2023. Officials from Latin America and the Caribbean were vocal participants in last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, known as COP27. But perhaps no other initiative from the region could have as much of a global impact as Barbados’s proposed climate finance plan. The Bridgetown Initiative, as […]
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By Editor-June 13th, 2023. Fifteen women have been freed from a prostitution ring that forced them to work in brothels in Spain after being deceived in their native countries, Colombia and Ecuador, reports El Universo of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The Spanish Police were alerted to this human trafficking network that operated in the provinces of Murcia […]
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By Jonathan Mason-June 13th, 2023. Mourners at the wake of an Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive, BBC News has reported. A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke. She was placed in a coffin and taken to a funeral parlour, where […]
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By Editor-June 13th, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he believes Ukraine’s counteroffensive is failing, claiming Kyiv’s troops have lost 25 to 30 percent of military vehicles supplied by Western countries since the start of their push to retake lands occupied by Moscow’s forces. The Russian leader also blames Ukraine for last week’s breach of the Nova Kakhovka […]
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By Jonathan Mason-June 13th, 2023. Prince Harry’s comments about the UK Government made in his ongoing trial against Mirror Group Newspapers will probably have left Buckingham Palace feeling “uncomfortable”, according to one of Britain’s most prestigious newspapers, the Sunday Times. Historically it has been considered to be out of place for the monarchy to comment […]
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By Editor-June 13th, 2023. Former US President Donald J. Trump makes his first court appearance today in a historic criminal case where he stands accused of taking top-secret government documents from the White House to his home in Florida when he left office, and jeopardising national security. The Justice Department’s first ever prosecution of a […]
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WASHINGTON, June 12, 2023 — World Bank Group president Ajay Banga will begin a months-long global public relations tour this week with a visit to Latin America and the Caribbean. Banga will be in Peru today before heading to Jamaica on June 13th to revise and review strategic partnerships with other multilateral banks and development organizations, work […]
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By Editor-June 12th, 2023. Mount Mayon, the most active volcano in the Phillipines began belching lava and sulfuric gas on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of nearly 13,000 residents in the southeast of the country’s main island, Luzon, said Phillipine government sources. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has recommended everyone within a 6-kilometer […]
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By Editor–June 12th, 2023. Ukraine says its troops have recaptured a fourth village in a cluster of settlements in the southeast, a day after reporting the first small gains of a counteroffensive against Russian forces. A group of Chechen special forces agreed to be brought under the control of the Russian defence ministry, a day after the Wagner mercenary […]
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