By CMC News Guyana signed a five million Euro (One Euro=US$1.29 cents) agreement with the European Union to maintain its forest and natural resources, as well as strengthen sustainable development specifically in Amerindian communities. President, Dr. Irfaan Ali signed the grant agreement with the visiting Deputy Secretary General of the European Union Action Service, Helena […]

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Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – “Father Jean-Yves is still in the hands of his kidnappers. They are not answering our phone calls and the pressure is increasing”. This is what Father Nestor Fils-Aimé, Provincial Superior of Canada of the Clerics of Saint Viator, reports to Fides about the story of the confrere kidnapped at […]

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BY DANICA COTTO AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development built only half of eight major projects meant to help Haiti recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake, a federal audit report said Thursday. The U.S. Government Accountability Office also found that most of the agency’s projects were delayed, had […]

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy nicknamed “El Chapito” for the drug-related killing of eight people near Mexico City, the federal Public Safety Department said Thursday. The boy allegedly rode up on a motorcycle and opened fire on a family in the low-income Mexico City suburb of Chimalhuacan. Another man […]

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SAN SALVADOR, March 16 (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress passed yet another extension suspending some constitutional rights in the Central American country’s year-long fight against gangs late Wednesday. The emergency powers temporarily allow arrests without warrants, government access to private communications and detentions without the right to a lawyer. It has been extended every month […]

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MEXICO CITY, March 16 (Reuters) – Greater quantities of synthetic opioid fentanyl directly enter the United States and Canada than Mexico, Mexico’s president said on Thursday, pushing back against U.S. criticism of his record on cracking down on trafficking in the lethal drug. A powerful painkiller, fentanyl has been blamed for fueling a surge in […]

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Recovering tropical forests offset just a quarter of carbon emissions generated each year by logging, wildfire and land clearing, new research has found. The study, led by University of Bristol scientists, found destruction of these ecosystems currently far outstripped the pace of regrowth. Working with an international team, they used satellite data to study the […]

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By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Global cocaine production has reached record levels as demand rebounds following Covid lockdowns, a new report has found. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime said coca cultivation rose by 35% between 2020 and 2021 to record levels. Findings suggest new hubs for trafficking have emerged in West and Central […]

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By Laura Gozzi BBC News Several cities in north east Brazil are suffering from serious unrest caused by marauding criminal gangs. For the third night, gang members set buses ablaze and carried out gun attacks on buildings in urban areas in Rio Grande do Norte state. The attacks are thought to have been sparked by […]

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