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Puerto Rico Solar Switch A Life and Death Matter -US Energy Chief

By Timothy Gardner ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico, March 31 (Reuters) – For U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm, the transformation of Puerto Rico’s power grid to solar and other renewable power, after hurricanes wiped it out in 2017 and 2022, is an imperative that goes beyond addressing climate change. When the lights go out in the U.S. […]

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Police Identify 2 Among 8 Dead Trying to Enter U.S. from Canada

By David Shepardson April 1 (Reuters) – Police in Canada on Saturday identified two victims among eight bodies recovered from two families who died this week trying to enter the United States from Canada by boat across the St. Lawrence River. The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service said 28-year-old Florin Iordache died and had two Canadian […]

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Taiwan Strengthens Ties with Guatemala Following Honduras Rupture

By Sofia Menchu   GUATEMALA CITY, April 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen completed a three-day trip to Guatemala on Sunday where she offered more cooperation with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei’s government, one of Taiwan’s few allies in the world. Tsai’s tour, which will take her to Belize on Sunday afternoon, comes a week […]

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Fentanyl – A Killer Drug’s Trail of Destruction

By Linda Pressly BBC News, Mexico and California Fentanyl is a deadly, synthetic opioid, 50 times more powerful than heroin. Americans are dying from it at such an alarming rate, that the US has approved the sale of naloxone – an overdose-reversing drug – without a prescription. But fentanyl’s trail of destruction begins further south. […]

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Mexico Migrant Centre Fire: ‘They Didn’t Deserve to Die This Way’

By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Online Latin America editor When Orlando José Maldonado Pérez sent his family in Venezuela a message a week ago on Sunday, he was upbeat and full of hope. The 26-year-old had arrived in Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican city just across the US border from El Paso, Texas, just four days […]

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Florida: Hunt for Kidnapped 2-Year-Old After Murdered Mother Found

By Micaiah Morgan Authorities in St. Petersburg, Florida, launched a search on Thursday for a 2-year-old boy who went missing after his mother was found dead in her apartment. Police reported that Taylen Mosley could not be found after his 20-year-old mother Pashun Jeffery, was found dead in “ a very violent homicide scene” on […]

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Two American Citizens Kidnapped in Haiti, US Confirms

US State Department deputy spokesperson confirms kidnapping, declines to give further details Two US citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti, the US State Department confirmed on Thursday. “I can confirm the kidnapping of two US citizens in Haiti,” Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson, told reporters during his press briefing. “We are in regular contact with […]

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SKN: CMO Explains Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreak in the Federation

St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN) – The Federation has been experiencing an outbreak of Acute Gastroenteritis (AGE) among children in recent weeks. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health, Dr Hazel Laws, has addressed the spread of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. Dr Laws outlined in […]

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We Are In the Dark: Distraught Relatives Seeking Answers on Boat Tragedy

A&B OBSERVER- Family members of passengers on board La Belle Michelle, which capsized on Tuesday in St Kitts waters, have been desperately seeking information about the whereabouts of their loved ones. They also want authorities to release the names of those who were found alive and those who have died. The 30ft fishing vessel departed […]

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