(This article was written by two Haitian authors and originally published in Al Jazeera. The views expressed are their own and not necessarily endorsed by the SKNO.) On March 12 of this year, just a few weeks ago, Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry offered his resignation as his country was in turmoil with armed gangs […]

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Global health experts are warning that nitazenes — a group of drugs that are much more potent than fentanyl — are increasingly present in street drugs. One former heroin user, said the prospect is “scary” after having tried cocaine laced with nitazenes. “It affected me way more than what that much of heroin would normally […]

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An appeals court in  Pennsylvania has given its support to a 13-ft statue of Christopher Columbus that opponents want to have removed from a public park in the city of Pittsburgh. The case was filed by the Italian Sons and Daughters of America filed after the Pittsburgh Art Commission voted to remove the statue. The […]

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The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announced a $25m term loan facility to the  Kensington Oval Management corporation  to upgrade the historic Kensington Oval Cricket Ground in Barbados ahead of this years Cricket World Cup. This investment comes just over a month ahead of the 2024 Cricket World Cup, scheduled for June 4th to 30th in […]

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In yesterday’s referendum Ecuadoreans voted in favour of allowing the army to help out the police in fighting organized crime. The poll was called after Ecuador went from being relatively peaceful to having the highest recorded murder rate in Latin America. Voters also backed longer prison terms and allowing extraditing violent criminals to be extradited […]

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Barbados has announced its decision to officially recognise Palestine as a state, becoming the 11th member of CARICOM to take that step. “How can we say we want a two-state solution if we do not recognise Palestine as a State,” Foreign Minister Kerrie Symmonds said in a statement Friday. The island nation’s Minister of Foreign […]

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One twenty-mile stretch of coastline in Angtigua is suddenly looking a whole lot more cared for. There are newly planted trees, the litter-free beaches, the signature tyre waste receptacles, painted ocean blue, and bearing the charge “Adopt-a-Coastline”, a slogan showing the presence of an organization recently created to preserve  the coastal environment, and  see it […]

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Petionville has always been regarded as a prosperous green and leafy suburb of Haiti’s capital of Port au Prince, with large homes safe behind stone walls, but in Haiti’s current state of anarchy nowhere is safe. The community recently voted to buy a metal barricade and install it themselves to try to protect residents from […]

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Richard Drax, the Conservative Party British MP who is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of his ancestors’ profitable careers in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government which is purchasing some of his ancestral lands to build new middle-income housing estates, reports The Guardian, a left wing British newspaper founded […]

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Playing under the floodlights of Times Square in New York City, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya has played chess for 58 consecutive hour–and still going–and has  broken the world record for the longest chess marathon., Reports don’t make it clear whether he has won all his games, but there are no reports of him being […]

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