WASHINGTON (AP): The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): The health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has long been a source of morbid fascination in rival South Korea, which sits in the shadow of Kim’s 1.2-million-strong army and his growing arsenal of nuclear-armed missiles....
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa’s high rate of unemployment has cast a pall over Youth Day, the holiday honouring the 45th anniversary of the Soweto student protests which played a key role in ending apartheid, the previous regime of racist,...
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday warned that the Caribbean countries cannot open up their economies without having access to vaccines. “It is very...
NEW YORK (AP) — More than four million people say they fear being evicted or foreclosed upon in the coming months just as two studies released Wednesday found that the housing availability and affordability crisis in the United States is...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Confronted with a rapid surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations, South Africa has returned to tighter restrictions on public gatherings and liquor sales, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Tuesday night. The new...
MIAMI (AP) — Royal Caribbean International is postponing for nearly a month one of the highly anticipated first sailings from the United States since the pandemic began because eight crew members tested positive for COVID-19, the company'...
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — A Tennessee doctor has been reprimanded for removing five doses of the coronavirus vaccine without authorisation and giving them to family and a friend, officials said. Claude F. Varner Jr., who had volunteered...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Transportation Department said Tuesday it is seeking to fine Air Canada about $25.5 million for what it termed extreme delays in giving refunds to thousands of passengers whose flights across the US-...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is recommending that its 27 member countries start lifting restrictions on tourists from the United States. EU members agreed Wednesday to add the US to the list of countries for which they should gradually...
GENEVA (AP): Buoyed by days of partnership-building sessions with America’s democratic allies, Joe Biden arrived in Geneva on Tuesday for the most-watched and tensest part of his first European tour as president: talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Claude Joseph has thanked President Jovenel Moïse for extending his tenure as head of the government for another 30 days. “While recognising the enormity of the challenges of the moment, I am convinced that with...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Grenada on Tuesday became the latest CARICOM country to launch a scheme aimed at getting their nationals to get vaccinated against the COVD-19 pandemic. Health authorities in Grenada have launched “a game of chance” as part of...
The United States death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The number of...
LONDON (AP) — The British government fended off calls Tuesday to provide more financial support to businesses and workers suffering from its decision to delay lifting coronavirus restrictions in England until July 19. Although many...
SAN JOSE (AP): Costa Rican authorities executed dozens of searches and arrests Monday as part of a sprawling public corruption investigation centred on the awarding of road construction and maintenance contracts. Walter Espinoza, director of the...
BRUSSELS (AP): NATO leaders on Monday declared China a constant security challenge and said that the Chinese are working to undermine global order, a message in sync with President Joe Biden’s efforts to get allies to speak out with a more unified...
CASTRIES (CMC): Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell will chair the 60th meeting of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Authority on June 18, the St Lucia-based OECS Commission has announced. It said that the virtual meeting...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Head of the Immigration Department in Grenada, Leroy Joseph, says there is a significant increase in the number of illegal migrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines entering the country, and this has become a major concern...
LUSAKA (AP): Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda, 97, has been admitted to hospital, his office announced on Monday as the southern African country battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Kaunda asked for “all Zambians and the international...
HOUSTON (AP) — Jennifer Bridges, a registered nurse in Houston, is steadfast in her belief that it's wrong for her employer to force hospital workers like her to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or say goodbye to their jobs. But that's...
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton on Monday stated that the Ministry continues to invest in the human resource of the public health system as it expands investments in infrastructure modernisation. Tufton noted that...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday that she has sought authorisation to open an investigation into the Philippine government's deadly crackdown on drug crime. Fatou Bensouda said...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks, until July 19, as a result of the spread of the delta variant. At a...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been hit by further delays as it will have to discard at least two million Johnson & Johnson vaccines produced in the country. The vaccines were found by the US Food and...
