By Madeline Halpert & Will Grant, Mexico correspondent BBC News A search is under way for four US citizens kidnapped in north-eastern Mexico last week after apparently getting caught up in a shootout which left one Mexican dead. They were driving through Matamoros in a white minivan when unidentified gunmen opened fire. Video shows them […]

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BBC- How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean island that many of them had never heard of? Journalist Gemma Handy reports from St John’s in Antigua. Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he recounts the day his two younger brothers were shot dead by militia during […]

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Mexican officials have found more than 340 people in an abandoned truck trailer in the state of Veracruz, including 103 unaccompanied minors.   The migrants were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador. It is one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico. All appeared unharmed and the trailer had fans […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS  — The Ministry of Sports in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) handed over a check in the amount of $50,000 to the Nevis Cricket Association following a request to assist the association in hosting a gala in honour of the island’s history making cricketer Mr. Elquemedo Tonito Willett. In presenting the cheque […]

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, March 6, 2023 (MMS-SKN) — The Department of Industry and Commerce, in the Federal Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce, and Consumer Affairs, has stepped up efforts in empowering local entrepreneurs to take advantage of realignment in global supply chain management that has been occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic among others. “So […]

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St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN):  A sitting of the National Assembly will be held on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 10:00 am. St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew will seek to introduce three bills for their first reading. The Bills – the Banking (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (Amendment) Bill, […]

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(CNN) A joint US and Australian law enforcement operation busted an international drug ring after intercepting 2.4 tons of cocaine aboard a vessel off the coast of South America that had been bound for Australia. The cocaine, linked to a Mexican drug cartel, had a street value of around A$1 billion ($677 million), and was […]

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By CMC News A  group of Bahamians in the United States and Canada is reportedly planning to protest against the administration of Prime Minister Phillip Davis later this month in Miami, Florida. According to the head of the minor opposition party, the Coalition of Independents, Lincoln Bain, the protest is planned for March 23. “They […]

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The AP Wire Fox libel defense at odds with top GOP presidential foes NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is on an unlikely collision course with two leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination over the rights of journalists. In defending…Read More Biden reelection bid faces resistance from some Democrats LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Democrats […]

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four U.S. citizens have been kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said Sunday. The four had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. They were travelling in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. The FBI San […]

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