By CMC News New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city will open its Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers to support the hundreds of asylum seekers, including Caribbean nationals, arriving in New York City daily from Texas and other border states. Adams said the humanitarian relief centers will provide assistance to newly arriving […]
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Residents of the island territory still suffer power and water outages from this month’s Hurricane Fiona, along with damage lingering from Hurricane Maria in 2017. By Gloria Gonzalez Puerto Ricans still trying to recover from Hurricane Fiona have a plea for the Biden administration: Don’t forget about us. Even before Florida suffered its own […]
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BRADFORD, UK is celebrating the people, culture, and traditions of St Kitts and Nevis after it marked 39 years since its independence, and one man, who was born in the country, has hosted an event to commemorate the occasion. Jerry Crawford, who was born in the town of Saddlers and moved to Bradford at the […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said. Coolio died at the Los Angeles home of a friend, longtime manager Jarez Posey told The Associated Press. The cause was not immediately […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun Men unload gas canisters on the Pastaza River near Block 192, a dormant Amazon oil field with a history of environmental spills where Peru is looking to reboot production amid soaring global crude prices linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Nuevo Andoas, Peru February 22, 2022. Picture taken February 22, 2022. […]
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REUTERS/Bruno Kelly MANAUS, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Up to 15 people are missing and three are confirmed dead after a bridge collapsed in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas on Wednesday, firefighters and local media said. The Amazonas Fire Department said it was looking for as many as 15 people after the collapse of a […]
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By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent BBC Image source, Getty Images Indigenous people protest in Brazil about the need for greater protection for their lands An environmental activist has been killed every two days on average over the past decade, a new study shows. The report from Global Witness says that more than 1,700 people have […]
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By Kanishka Singh Sept 28 (Reuters) – U.S. Border Patrol said on Wednesday that 20 people were missing off the coast of Florida after a Cuban migrant boat sank due to Hurricane Ian. The Border Patrol agents responded to a migrant landing in Stock Island, Florida, officials said on Twitter. The U.S. Coast Guard had […]
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VENICE, Fla., Sept 29 (Reuters) – A weakened but still formidable Hurricane Ian chugged across Florida toward the Atlantic seaboard on Thursday after thrashing the state’s Gulf Coast with fierce winds, torrential downpours and raging surf that flooded oceanside communities. Ian blasted ashore with catastrophic force on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane, packing […]
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By Will Grant & Max Matza BBC News Power has been restored in parts of Cuba after Hurricane Ian pummelled the western end of the island and caused a total blackout. Officials earlier said the electrical system had collapsed after one of the country’s main power plants could not be brought back online. Two people […]
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