Scientists welcome “honest conversation” about the long standing threat of sea level rise driven by climate change, warning coastal protection measures cannot save all communities, even if the Environment Agency could afford them everywhere. Victoria Seabrook Climate reporter Sky News Some British coastal communities will “inevitably” be forced from their homes as climate change eats […]

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HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Fast-moving Tropical Storm Alex brushed past Bermuda on Monday morning, knocking out power to hundreds of customers, but there was no serious damage reported and life quickly returned to normal in this British Overseas Territory. Alex, the first named storm of the Atlantic season, weakened overnight from 70 miles per hour […]

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By Daina Beth Solomon and Ted Hesson LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has marshaled $3.2 billion in corporate pledges to tackle the factors that drive some Central Americans to migrate to the United States, according to her office, an effort she will tout on Tuesday at the Summit of […]

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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will announce this week at the Summit of the Americas an economic partnership for the Western hemisphere focusing on promoting economic recovery by building on existing trade agreements, U.S. administration officials said on Monday. Dubbed the “Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity”, the plan will […]

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TAPACHULA, June 6 (Reuters) – Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week. Migration activists said the group could be one of the region’s largest migrant caravans in […]

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Image source, Getty Images Police scramble to enter the ministerial premises after a friend of Orlando Jorge Mera shot and killed him in his office BBC- The Dominican Republic’s minister of environment and natural resources has been shot and killed in his office by a close personal friend, officials say. Orlando Jorge Mera, 55, was […]

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PM retains support of most colleagues but badly weakened after result in which 148 MPs voted against him Rowena Mason Deputy political editoR Guardian Boris Johnson was clinging to his premiership on Monday night after 148 of his MPs voted to oust him from Downing Street in a ballot that exposed potentially fatal rifts within […]

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by Mychael Schnell The Hill Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has found evidence on former President Trump that supports “a lot more than incitement.” The comment from Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 panel, referenced Trump’s second impeachment in […]

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CHARLESTOWN, NEVIS, June 6, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Federation’s oldest credit union, the Charlestown-based Nevis Co-operative Credit Union (NCCU) Limited has significantly contributed to the country’s financial services sector in the fifty years it has been serving the people of Nevis President of the Nevis Co-operative Credit Union (NCCU) Limited Mrs. Vernesia Walters made the remarks […]

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By Santana Salm The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it has completed the expansion of biometric facial comparison technology at all international airports across the United States to further secure and streamline travel from the Caribbean and other places. “This innovation effort is a critical milestone for the biometric entry/exit program, […]

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