By Sheri-Kae McLeod CNW- Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, says the implementation of a regional visa regime among CARICOM nations has huge economic potential for tourism recovery and development in the region. “A regional visa regime is something that we’ve been talking about. I think if we are to build Caribbean tourism, then we […]

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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— Ninety-five per cent of monkeypox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to the largest study to date, which also noted new clinical signs such as single genital lesions. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, came as World Health Organization experts debated whether to […]

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(CNN) Former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula, is now officially standing as the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) presidential candidate, the party announced Thursday. Brazil’s presidential elections are scheduled for October 2, when Lula is expected to face off against current President Jair Bolsonaro. His bid for the presidency had […]

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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN   Havana, Cuba (CNN)For Cubans, the heat is on and the power could go out any moment.Enduring broiling-hot summer temperatures and a short-circuiting electrical grid has long been part of life in Cuba but now the island is dealing with severe fuel shortages, failing power plants and widespread blackouts that are […]

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By Luis Jaime Acosta   BOGOTA, July 21 (Reuters) – Colombia’s top criminal gangs, who are linked to producing and trafficking cocaine, on Thursday proposed a ceasefire to the incoming government of leftist Gustavo Petro as a starting point to peace talks, six groups said in a statement. The groups, which are spread throughout Colombia, […]

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States.   He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto)     Over the last few weeks, global warming […]

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LIMA, July 21 (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general has opened a new probe of President Pedro Castillo, a day after the country’s former interior minister accused the leftist leader of obstructing graft investigations of close allies, prosecutors said on Thursday. The investigation was triggered by Castillo’s abrupt firing on Tuesday of Mariano Gonzalez, who had […]

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MEXICO CITY, July 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke by phone with his Mexican counterpart Alejandro Gertz Manero Thursday afternoon regarding the extradition of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Mexico’s navy on Friday captured Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics […]

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By Jude Sheerin BBC, Washington   Ex-US President Donald Trump watched last year’s Capitol riot on TV at the White House, ignoring his children and aides who “begged him” to rebuke the mob, a congressional inquiry has heard. “He chose not to act,” said Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Democratic-led committee. The […]

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BBC- Police in Brazil say 18 people have been killed during a raid against a criminal gang that controls one of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent favelas. Four hundred heavily-armed military police were deployed to the Alemão favela in the early hours of Thursday. Sixteen of the dead were suspected criminals, while a police officer […]

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