Today’s Headlines Winter is coming: Ukrainians dig in for brutal season ahead KIVSHARIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Nine-year-old Artem Panchenko helps his grandmother stoke a smoky fire in a makeshift outdoor kitchen beside their nearly abandoned apartment…Read More Russian warplane crashes near apartment building, killing 13 MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian warplane crashed Monday into a […]

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by DAVID A. COMISSIONG Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to secure the payment of Reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted on the people of Africa and the African Diaspora during the centuries of European orchestrated slave trade and enslavement, a number of “fifth columnists” have crept […]

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, October 17, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — Budding Kittitian junior wordsmiths desirous of improving their spelling abilities will have a field day on Thursday October 20, when the Rotary Club of Liamuiga holds the 16th edition of its Annual Primary School Spelling Bee Competition. “As part of our efforts to give back to the […]

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By CMC News Seven persons suspected to be involved in the gang-related crime wave, that has gripped the Turks and Caicos Islands were arrested last week as the police continue to clamp down on the upsurge in crime and violence in the British Overseas territory. The arrests were made in a multi-pronged approach dubbed “Operation […]

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By AP News Almost 100 migrants, mostly Haitians, who were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast had no food or water for two days, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A coast guard helicopter spotted the migrants, 96 Haitians, as well as a passenger each from Uganda and The Bahamas, about 20 […]

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Taipei, Oct. 18 (CNA) Taiwan is planning to donate bulletproof vests to the Haitian National Police to help the Caribbean country tackle its current political, economic and security crisis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday. Florencia Hsie (謝妙宏), head of MOFA’s Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, said that ever since Haitian […]

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As tensions in the troubled nation mount, gang leader Jimmy Chérizier wants to put gang members in government. by Nathaniel Janowitz Vice Barbecue, a prominent gang leader in Haiti, shouts slogans after giving a speech in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 22, 2021. A former policeman, he fancies himself a man of the people and an enemy […]

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By Brian Ellsworth Oct 17 (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico said on Monday they will seek support from the United Nations for a security mission to restore order in Haiti amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, but did not identify who would lead the mission. Haiti is facing dire shortages of basic goods and […]

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FILE PHOTO – Former minister Tarcisio Freitas gestures next to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during a farmer’s fair of banana producers in Pariquera-Acu, Sao Paulo state, Brazil May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO, Oct 17 (Reuters) – A man was killed near a campaign event in Sao Paulo for a close ally of Brazilian […]

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  Image source, Getty Images Many of the Venezuelan migrants walk thousands of kilometres to reach their destination By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Online Latin America editor   More than seven million Venezuelans have left their homeland since 2015 amid an ongoing economic and political crisis, according to new UN data. More than half of […]

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