Gleaner- The 2022 murder tally in Jamaica now stands at 594 as at May 27, up 7 percent from 2021. St James is the first police division to surpass 100 murders with 101, a 44 per cent increase when compared to 70 homicides recorded during the corresponding period in 2021. This represents a seven per […]
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(CNN)- Surging gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left nearly 200 people dead and thousands displaced in the last month alone, according to a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report. Heavily armed rival gangs began clashing and seizing territory in Port-au-Prince with new intensity in late April, forcing more than […]
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By Alvaro Murillo SAN JOSE, May 31 (Reuters) – A cyberattack struck Costa Rica’s hospitals and clinics early Tuesday morning, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) said, the latest in a string of hacks targeting the Central American country in recent weeks. The cyberattack forced the CCSS to shut down its digital record-keeping […]
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By Jose Cortes PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico, May 31 (Reuters) – At least three people were confirmed dead and at least five others reported missing on Tuesday after record-breaking storm Agatha battered southern Mexico, local authorities said on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall in the region is expected to continue, and the remnants of the storm are likely […]
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By Patrick Jackson BBC News At least 106 people are now known to have died as torrential rain triggered landslides and torrents of mud near the city of Recife in north-east Brazil. Rescue workers continue the search for people still missing after poor neighbourhoods and shanty towns were swept away in the region. President Jair […]
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By Charis McGowan Santiago, Chile BBC- The late mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr imagined sport in everything. Whether it was a city wall or a mountain slope, Mohr would see its sporting potential. His hometown of Santiago – Chile’s bustling capital surrounded by the snow-capped Andes mountains – was the perfect place to cultivate that […]
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During the Omicron Wave, Death Rates Soared for Older People Last year, people 65 and older died from Covid at lower rates than in previous waves. But with Omicron and waning immunity, death rates rose again. By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz NY Times Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (May 31, 2022) — A number of past and present staff members, business places and persons involved in agriculture and fisheries were recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture at an awards dinner on May 29, 2022, at the Malcolm Guishard Recreational Park Centre. The event brought the curtains down on the 10th Agriculture Awareness Month […]
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A bus from the company “La voix des anges” with 43 passengers on board, which provides the Cayes-Port-au-Prince route, was targeted in Martissant (at the southern entrance to the capital) by heavily armed individuals who control the RN#2, confirmed Méhu Changeux, President of the union of the Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti (APCH). […]
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Passengers were heard screaming “oh my god” and “holy sh**” as the world’s longest cruise ship in Falmouth, Jamaica, drifted towards the port and crashed into a pier By Rachel Hagan Daily Mirror,UK Royal Caribbean’s The Harmony of the Seas 1,188-foot cruise ship crashed into a pier in Jamaica. At the country’s busy port […]
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