By Bill Pan   The U.S. Coast Guard has detained a 50-foot boat crammed with nearly 400 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas. The migrant ship carrying 396 “unlawful entrants from the Republic of Haiti” was intercepted on Saturday near Cay Sal Bank, an island between Florida and Cuba, according to Bahamian immigration authorities. In a […]

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Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy Minister Stuart Young poses for a photograph during the Suriname Energy, Oil and Gas Summit, in Paramaribo, Suriname June 27, 2022. Picture taken June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ranu Abhelakh//File Photo PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Trinidad & Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young on Monday proposed a Caribbean energy alliance with […]

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VIENNA, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The COVID-19 pandemic led to the first drop in the known number of human-trafficking victims in 20 years as trafficking opportunities and policing were reduced, but the Ukraine war has probably now caused a new surge, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. The number of detected trafficking victims fell 11% […]

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MEXICO CITY, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board approved $105 million to help Haiti address severe food insecurity, the institution said on Monday, as the Caribbean country faces widespread shortages amid a humanitarian crisis. The payment, under the IMF’s Food Shock Window program, is set to address “urgent balance of […]

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By Marc Jones  Students hold images of the late Cuban President Fidel Castro during an event commemorating the five year anniversary of his death, in Havana, Cuba, November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo   LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Cuba began a high-stakes legal battle in London’s High Court on Monday over unpaid Fidel Castro-era […]

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By Laura Gozzi BBC News Brazil has airlifted 16 starving Yanomami tribal people to receive urgent treatment, after the government declared a medical emergency. The indigenous people live in a reserve in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has accused his predecessor, far-right Jair Bolsonaro, of committing genocide against the […]

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By Max Matza BBC News, Seattle The US state of California is reeling from its second mass shooting in days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco. The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. The victims were all Chinese-American farm workers. Suspect Zhao Chunli, 67, […]

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by FABIANO MAISONNAVE and DIANE JEANTET, Associated Press – 01/22/23 9:43 AM ET   RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. The […]

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The AP Morning Wire California shooter kills 10 at dance club; motive unclear MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year…Read More Asian community reeling after Lunar New Year shooting MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — […]

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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)   Many countries in South America are now […]

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