By Monique Washington The gas price in the Federation, which is now at $18.01 per gallon, may soon be reduced, according to Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley. Brantley noted that the Federal cabinet is currently in discussions as it relates to a price reduction at the pumps. Early last month, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia […]
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The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced that the finals for the next three years will be hosted by Guyana, starting this year. The 2022 tournament will be hosted across four countries – St Lucia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and St Kitts and Nevis. After hosting the entire tournament in 2021, St […]
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The Reuters Daily Briefing Tuesday, April 5, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Satellite images show civilian deaths in Bucha while it was in Russian hands, Biden urges a war crimes trial for Putin, and the U.S. stops Russian bond payments Today’s biggest stories Local resident Viktoria Mukhina plants tulips […]
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The search resumed Monday for five of seven crewmen who were on board a St. Vincent and the Grenadines registered cargo vessel that capsized in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. Two of the MV Fair Chance vessel crewmen were rescued by a passing powerboat and taken to Trinidad. […]
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CNW- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are expected to meet later this week to discuss the controversy that has arisen following Jamaica’s decision to announce that its Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith will challenge the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General in June. At the end of […]
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Giacomo Tognini Forbes Staff From Caribbean islands to northern Europe, these nations finally have a billionaire citizen. There are 87 fewer billionaires in the world this year, according to Forbes’ 2022 World’s Billionaires list. But even as countries like Russia, where the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions have sent markets plummeting, and China, which […]
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By Jorge Engels and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) Some 130 people have been killed and more than 3,000 have been forcibly displaced this year as violence has surged in eastern Colombia, according to the United Nations and the Catholic Church. The institutions have called on armed groups to stop the violence and respect international humanitarian […]
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By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI, April 4 (Reuters) – A former Colombian soldier pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges by U.S. prosecutors that he conspired to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. The U.S. Justice Department in January said Mario Palacios was part […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun and Sebastian Castaneda LIMA, April 4 (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, banning people from leaving their homes in an attempt to curb protests against rising fuel and fertilizer costs that have spread throughout the country. “The cabinet has agreed to declare a […]
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BRASILIA, April 4 (Reuters) – Hundreds of indigenous people began gathering in the Brazilian capital on Monday for a 10-day protest camp to defend their land rights and oppose a government bill in Congress that would allow mining and oil exploration on their reservations. Organizers are hoping to gather 7,000 people from 200 of Brazil’s […]
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