By Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York Before he arrived at a city-run shelter in Manhattan, Wilson, a 23-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker, crossed through multiple Central American countries, over the US-Mexico border, up the eastern seaboard and, finally, to New York City. Now, he will likely have to move again. Wilson and dozens of other […]
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By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Prosecutors in Suriname have asked the High Court of Justice to uphold a 20-year jail sentence given to former President Desi Bouterse. The 74-year-old was convicted in 2019 of ordering the extrajudicial execution of 15 political opponents four decades ago. Bouterse has since been appealing against this ruling and cannot […]
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BBC- Three Haitian Americans and a Colombian have been charged in the US over the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021. Seven people in total have now been charged in the US. His death in his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, plunged the country, already suffering from rising violence and an […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (January 31, 2023) — An officer of the Department of Gender Affairs in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) is urging members of the public to help select deserving women on the island for the department’s public recognition of their achievements. Mr. Mario Phillip, Gender Officer at the department noted that the […]
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A portrait of the founder of Leeds’ West Indian Carnival is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Harewood House. The photograph of Arthur France will be the first of a person of Afro-Caribbean heritage in the mansion’s art collection. Harewood House, near Leeds, was built using wealth generated by the Lascelles family’s West Indian […]
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Hello The Memphis fire department fires three employees in the Tyre Nichols case, Gautam Adani rides out the storm as investors rally behind his share sale, and Australia is still searching for a lost radioactive capsule by Linda Noakes World News An aerial view shows damaged buildings in Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, in this screen […]
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The first horn of the 2023 Pure Grenada Sailing Week blew this morning at 10am as the fleet, 30 boats strong, adjusted their sails to a gentle northeasterly 10 to 12-knot breeze. All appeared in good form as they prepared to carry 200 crew over the start line in Tyrell Bay and along the same […]
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HAVANA (AP) — The Rolo González sisters walked out of Nicaragua’s main airport and peered out onto a sea of young men. The Central American “coyotes” squinted back, trying to find the people they would smuggle to the United States. These were the first steps that 19-year-old Merlyn and 24-year-old Melanie took outside of Cuba. […]
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By Brian Ellsworth Jan 30 (Reuters) – Haitians in the United States are facing enormous pressure to help family and friends under a U.S. migration program announced this month that may help some people escape Haiti’s escalating violence but is also putting strain on the nation’s diaspora. Giubert St Fort, a South Florida resident […]
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BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Germany on Monday pledged 200 million euros ($217 million) to help Brazil defend the Amazon rainforest, a global ecosystem devastated during years of rule under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The sum, in credits and donations, was announced in the capital Brasilia where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the first […]
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