By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota, Colombia CNN — Hundreds of families in Colombia are facing a choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods, or face the devastation of a predicted volcanic eruption in the coming weeks. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, one of Colombia’s highest peaks, sits in a densely populated farming area and is infamous […]
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By Jessica Parker and James Gregory BBC News, Alabama and London At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in the US state of Alabama. Twenty-eight people were injured, some critically, after shots were fired at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in the city of Dadeville on […]
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By Ashitha Nagesh BBC Community Affairs correspondent Windrush scandal victims are still facing long waits and inadequate offers of compensation, according to a new report by a global human rights group. Human Rights Watch said the Home Office-run compensation scheme should be handed to an independent body. Five years ago it was revealed thousands of […]
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By George Wright BBC News Sons of drugs kingpin “El Chapo” are among members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel charged in the United States with running a huge operation that supplies fentanyl to the US. The operation was allegedly fuelled by Chinese chemical companies. Fentanyl is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of mainly […]
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Law enforcement officers of the Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU) in the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) successfully took into custody a quantity of drug contraband on the night of April 13, 2023. Acting on information received from Police personnel at the Frigate Bay Police Station, ANU officers journeyed to Turtle Beach on the […]
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By CMC News The Trinidadian Government has been awarded more than US$132 million in damages in the 19-year-old Piarco International Airport civil asset forfeiture case, according to the final judgment issued in the Miami-Dade circuit court by Judge Reemberto Diaz. The money will have to be paid by former government minister Brian Kuei Tung and […]
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By CMC News Two Trinidadians were among three men who admitted to their roles in a Caribbean arms trafficking ring. A statement issued on Thursday by United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Roger B. Handberg, disclosed that Jameal Kaia Phillip and Tevin OBrian Oliver, both 30, and Edward Soloman King III, 31, of Tampa, […]
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By Micaiah Morgan Reports are that 17 workers of Facey Commodity Limited, a division of the Seprod Group in Jamaica are now in police custody in relation to a multimillion-dollar fraud case. The announcement was made during a press conference on Thursday. Investigators are looking for 13 additional employees who are wanted in connection with […]
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by Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own) […]
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