Compiled by Nicole McCain NEWS 24 A fisherman has gone missing off the coast of St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal after falling overboard a fishing boat. PHOTO: Supplied/NSRI A fisherman has gone missing off the coast of St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal after falling overboard a local fishing boat on Sunday. A second fisherman was rescued from […]
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View in browser Get the newsletter With the war in Ukraine in its seventh week and Russia pressing its campaign more forcefully in the east, the calculus on Moscow appears to be shifting. The U.S. and Europe would never say it officially, but the unprecedented sanctions on Russia haven’t had any discernible impact on the […]
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BY ANTHONY LEWIS Jamaica Observer writer BESSIE BAKER, Hanover — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has doubled to 1,000 the number of houses he wants built each year and provide free of cost to the society’s most needy. This year 315 units are to be built, a number which he said only scratches the […]
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By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA, April 8 (Reuters) – Brazil’s March inflation was the highest in 28 years for that month, official data showed on Friday, exceeding expectations and fue ling interest rate bets as the war in Ukraine drove fuel and food prices sharply higher. The IPCA consumer price index (BRCPI=ECI) rose 1.62% from February, […]
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BY Jake Spring April 8 (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 15% in March from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed on Friday, but even with that dip it was enough to drive the most destruction during the first quarter in at least six years. From January to March, deforestation of the […]
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By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, April 9 (Reuters) – Hundreds of commercial trucks waited in an hours-long line on Saturday to cross the border from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into El Paso after Texas Governor Gregg Abbott ordered state troopers to step up inspections of north-bound vehicles. “I’ve been here since […]
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LIMA, April 8 (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Friday confirmed a ruling ordering Peru not to release jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, who was on the verge of leaving prison last month after a presidential pardon was reinstated. The decision overrules Peru’s top local court, which had ruled on March 17 […]
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By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY, April 10 (Reuters) – Nine out of ten Mexicans voting on Sunday in an unprecedented recall election engineered by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador backed him to stay in office, underlining his domination of a polarized political agenda. Both critics and supporters alike had viewed his victory as a foregone […]
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WH: Biden could get COVID, but he’s vaccinated © Getty images String of COVID cases hits DC as nationwide rise looms by Peter Sullivan – The Hill A burst of high-profile COVID-19 cases in Washington, D.C., is highlighting the lingering threat of the virus. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Cabinet members including Attorney General Merrick Garland, […]
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Dr. Agatha Jeffers-Gooden Former Director of Development & Marketing Nevis Financial Services Department. I was so saddened to hear of the passing of my former colleague and friend, the Honourable Vance Amory. I met Mr. Amory when I was a child and he served as an Altar Boy at the St James Anglican Church, […]
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