President Xi Jinping is supercharging efforts to rival the most powerful currency in the world. China is pushing through deals linked to the yuan as it seeks to circumvent US attempts to weaponize the dollar. Agreements to transact some payments in the Chinese currency from Saudi Arabia, Brazil and even France have been signed in […]
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The Caribbean nation plans on removing King Charles as head of state by 2025 Ellen Mauro, Mia Sheldon · CBC News · Jahmar Clarke, left, plays dominoes with two friends at a bar in Kingston, Jamaica. He is one of many people in Jamaica CBC News talked to who said it’s time for their country […]
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by Josimar Scott (Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has signaled the intentions of the Government to integrate nuclear energy in the country’s energy mix. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Expo Jamaica 2023 last week Thursday, April 28, 2023, the prime minster revealed that already he had spoken to the International Atomic Energy […]
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Analysis by Tara John and Karol Suarez, CNN CNN — Ecuador was known as the “isla de paz” – an island of peace – in the 1980s, when compared to its neighbors Colombia and Peru, some of the world’s biggest producers of cocaine. But a deadly escalation of violence has upended that reputation in past […]
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Forty-eight-year-old Allister Christie of Above Rocks, St Andrew and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has been arrested and charged in connection with the seizure of cocaine valued at $12 million at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Tuesday. Christie is charged with possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, taking steps to export cocaine, and conspiracy […]
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Photo credit: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images By CNW Contributor CNN- American sprinter and long jumper Tori Bowie – a three-time Olympic medalist and a two-time world champion in track and field – has died, according to her agent, Kimberly Holland. Bowie was 32 years old. Holland told CNN on Wednesday that Bowie was found dead at home in […]
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Loop News- The Grenadian and Caribbean media fraternity was sent into mourning following news that veteran journalist Odette Campbell has died. Reports said Campbell passed away in New York last night after a period of prolonged illness. The Government Information Service of Grenada (GIS) paid tribute to Campbell, who was the Managing Director of the […]
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by Sarah Jackson Yahoo News Two private islands in the Caribbean, called Little St. James and Great St. James, that once belonged to Jeffrey Epstein first hit the market last March with an asking price of $125 million.Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images; REUTERS/Marco Bello Jeffrey Epstein’s two private islands in the Caribbean have sold […]
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LIMA, May 3 (Reuters) – Peru’s security forces committed alarming human rights violations during anti-government protests last December, a regional human rights body said on Wednesday, adding that the response to demonstrators could be classified as a massacre. More than 60 people died in clashes with police and soldiers in protests that broke out following […]
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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News A mother who was searching for her missing son has been killed in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Teresa Magueyal was shot dead by two men on a motorbike while she was cycling through the streets of her home town, Celaya. Ms Magueyal was part of the group “A Promise […]
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