Mexican authorities said Thursday that former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna embezzled as much as $745.9 million from government technology contracts. Pablo Gómez, the head of Mexico’s anti-money laundering unit, said Garcia Luna and associates set up companies that got 30 dubious government contracts while he was Mexico’s top security official in 2006-2012 and […]

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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Colombia will establish areas where members of four armed groups who have agreed to ceasefires can gather, another step in efforts to reach peace or surrender deals, the country’s defense minister and military said on Thursday. President Gustavo Petro, a leftist and former member of a […]

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By Alexander Villegas JULIACA, Peru, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators marched through Peru’s southern city of Juliaca on Thursday to commemorate the one-month anniversary of clashes that left 19 people dead in the city, the worst violence in over two months of anti-government protests. Family members and protesters amassed under an overpass for […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Nicaragua has released 222 of the 245 opposition prisoners it was holding. The freed prisoners, who are critics of President Daniel Ortega, were deported to the United States. The US state department welcomed the move, which it said had been made “unilaterally” by the Nicaraguan government. Among those freed are […]

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By Santana Salmon CNW One hundred and 14 Haitian migrants made landfall in the Florida Keys early Thursday in the latest large group making their way to the state from Haiti and Cuba by water in recent months, the U.S. Border Patrol said. Border patrol and law enforcement responded to the site in Tavernier, south of Key […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 09, 2023) — Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance, will present the 2023 Budget at a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly Chambers at Hamilton House on Monday, February 20, 2023, at 10 a.m. Hon. Michelle Slack, the newly sworn in President of the Assembly will preside […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 09, 2023) — The late Mervin “Mansa” Tyson carried on with his passion of farming till his passing on February 01, 2023, and so, leaves behind a legacy of his pioneering works in the development of agro-tourism in St. Kitts and Nevis. Mr. Devon Liburd, Chief Executive Officer at the Nevis […]

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By Devonne Cornelius St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Mr. Mauriel Knight, 19, has been appointed Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly of St. Kitts and Nevis. The announcement was made on February 08, 2023, by Speaker of the National Assembly Hon. Lanien Blanchette. “We have a new member of staff at the office of the […]

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By CMC News The national airline of The Bahamas, Bahamasair, has dismissed as untrue, a statement by former prime minister Dr. Hubert Minnis that “millions of dollars have disappeared from travel agents and baggage handlers in Haiti.” Speaking in Parliament on Monday, Minnis told legislators that “millions of Bahamian taxpayer money has disappeared and they […]

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 rattled several parts of Trinidad on Wednesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of West Indies, said that the quake, which occurred at 6.31 […]

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