More than 22,700 people are now known to have died in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria – though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear. Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading more than four days since the first quake. Tens of thousands of people have spent […]
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CNN — When Brazil’s new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, meets President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday, the two hope to reset relations after an era defined by right-wing populists and threats to democracy in both nations. The talks, expected to center around efforts to combat climate change and tackle anti-democratic […]
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By CMC News The University of the West Indies (UWI) must and will become the digital transformation epicenter of The Caribbean, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has declared. Speaking during the project launch ceremony for the UWI-CDB Digital Transformation Program at the University’s Regional Headquarters in Jamaica, he said the UWI is advancing its digital […]
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Pembroke Pines water safe to drink By Micaiah Morgan CNW Jamaicans are advised to conserve water and report leaks to the National Water Commission (NWC) amid the country’s current meteorological drought. Matthew Samuda, minister responsible for Water, Environment, and Climate Change said there are depletions in the nation’s major systems and actions will be […]
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Mexican authorities said Thursday that former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna embezzled as much as $745.9 million from government technology contracts. Pablo Gómez, the head of Mexico’s anti-money laundering unit, said Garcia Luna and associates set up companies that got 30 dubious government contracts while he was Mexico’s top security official in 2006-2012 and […]
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Colombia will establish areas where members of four armed groups who have agreed to ceasefires can gather, another step in efforts to reach peace or surrender deals, the country’s defense minister and military said on Thursday. President Gustavo Petro, a leftist and former member of a […]
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By Alexander Villegas JULIACA, Peru, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators marched through Peru’s southern city of Juliaca on Thursday to commemorate the one-month anniversary of clashes that left 19 people dead in the city, the worst violence in over two months of anti-government protests. Family members and protesters amassed under an overpass for […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Nicaragua has released 222 of the 245 opposition prisoners it was holding. The freed prisoners, who are critics of President Daniel Ortega, were deported to the United States. The US state department welcomed the move, which it said had been made “unilaterally” by the Nicaraguan government. Among those freed are […]
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By Santana Salmon CNW One hundred and 14 Haitian migrants made landfall in the Florida Keys early Thursday in the latest large group making their way to the state from Haiti and Cuba by water in recent months, the U.S. Border Patrol said. Border patrol and law enforcement responded to the site in Tavernier, south of Key […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 09, 2023) — Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance, will present the 2023 Budget at a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly Chambers at Hamilton House on Monday, February 20, 2023, at 10 a.m. Hon. Michelle Slack, the newly sworn in President of the Assembly will preside […]
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