By Steven Aristil and Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country’s main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation. Protesters in civilian clothes who identified themselves as police first attacked […]
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Jan 29 (Reuters) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Sunday urged lawmakers to reconsider a proposal to advance elections to later this year, promising she would propose a constitutional reform to move general elections to October if lawmakers fail to do so. Lawmakers were set to continue debate on Monday after rejecting a motion last […]
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By Laura Gozzi BBC News Roadblocks set up across Peru by demonstrators demanding the resignation of the country’s president will be dismantled, officials have said. Police and the military are preparing to mount a joint operation, according to the defence and interior ministries. Supporters of former President Pedro Castillo took to the streets after he […]
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Officers were not in danger and brutality had no justification, advocates and experts say Victoria Bekiempis in New York GUARDIAN Legal experts and civil rights advocates have said the harrowing video footage that showed a group of Memphis police officers delivering blow after blow to Tyre Nichols underscores the need for broad reforms of policing […]
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The event was the first of its kind since before the pandemic The Basseterre Kingdom Hall was filled with a joyful crowd of 331 from St Kitts and Nevis on Saturday as Jehovah’s Witnesses held their first large event after a three-year pandemic pause. “Fabulous,” was how Anthony Warner, of Dieppe Bay, described the reunion […]
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Hello Memphis braces for video of a fatal police encounter with a Black motorist, India’s Adani is slammed by a $48 billion stock rout, and a Russian graveyard reveals Wagner’s prisoner army by Linda Noakes U.S. News Officers who were involved in a traffic stop that ended with the death of Tyre Nichols are shown […]
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Police in St Kitts and Nevis are investigating the Federation’s second homicide for 2023 following an incident in Bird Rock Thursday night. Details surrounding the incident are not clear at this juncture but police have confirmed they are investigating a homicide. They indicated that the body of a young man was discovered in a vehicle […]
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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto) “Being homosexual is not a crime. We are all […]
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By CMC News With only seven years left to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, Caribbean governments and the United Nations have renewed their commitment to intensifying efforts to achieve the vision of the 2030 Agenda, under the new United Nations Multi-country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (MSDCF) 2022-2026. An inaugural meeting of a sub-regional joint […]
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