PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Former Jamaica Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has warned against a fragmentation of the regional integration grouping, CARICOM, and is urging regional leaders to ensure that the Caribbean is present “at the table” as...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, who has promised that general elections will be held later this year, is also indicating that the campaign will be a short one as his Unity Labour Party (ULP) seeks an unprecedented fifth...
Major cruise lines say they will test all passengers and crew for COVID-19 prior to boarding as part of their plan for resuming sailing in the Americas. The Cruise Lines International Association, a trade group that represents 95% of global ocean-...
NEW DELHI (AP) — On a quiet road in India’s capital, tucked away on a wide, red-bricked sidewalk, kids set adrift by the country’s COVID-19 lockdown are being tutored. The children, ages 4 to 14, carry book bags more than a mile...
WASHINGTON (AP): Joe Biden on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and urged more senators to stand with a pair of GOP colleagues who...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Born out of World War II’s devastation to save succeeding generations from the scourge of conflict, the United Nations (UN) officially marks its 75th anniversary today at an inflection point in history, navigating a polarised...
CASTRIES, (CMC): The main opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) has officially opened its election campaign headquarters in the capital, saying it is ready for the general election that is constitutionally due by September 2021 but widely expected...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of...
NEW YORK (AP) — United States health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The Centers for Disease Control and...
LOXLEY, Alabama (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people were still without power Friday along the Alabama coast and the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally as officials assessed millions of dollars in damage that...
SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) — A firefighter died battling a wildfire in California that officials said was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby’s gender. The death happened Thursday in the San Bernardino National Forest as...
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei says he’s tested positive for the coronavirus. The 64-year-old Giammattei told a local radio station he feels well. He has multiple sclerosis and uses canes to walk. The...
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland (AP) — In front of baskets of tomatoes and peppers, near a sizzling burrito grill, the “promotoras” stop masked shoppers at a busy Latino farmers market: Want to test a COVID-19 vaccine? Aided by Spanish...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Wilfred has formed in the eastern Atlantic, becoming the latest storm in an active hurricane season. The storm’s maximum sustained winds Friday morning were near 40 miles per hour. The US National Hurricane...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The World Food Program chief warned Thursday that millions of people are closer to starvation because of the deadly combination of conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic and he urged donor nations and...
GENEVA (AP): The World Health Organization’s (WHO) European director warned national governments on Thursday against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, even as he acknowledged that COVID-19 “fatigue”...
TAIPEI (AP): US Undersecretary of State Keith Krach arrived in Taiwan on Thursday for the second visit by a high-level American official in two months, prompting a stern warning and threat of possible retaliation from China. Beijing considers...
BERLIN (AP): The Austrian government has spoken up to correct US President Donald Trump’s claim that people in its country live in “forest cities”. Trump recently cited Austria and other European countries as models of good forest management that...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — California companies must warn their workers of any potential exposure to the coronavirus and must pay their employees workers compensation benefits if they get sick with the disease under two laws that Governor...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2020 | 12:56 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has again delayed the start of in-person learning for most of the more than one million students in its public school system. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that most elementary school students...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2020 | 10:56 AM
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The author of proposed Australian laws to make Facebook and Google pay for journalism said Thursday his draft legislation will be altered to allay some of the digital giants’ concerns, but remain fundamentally...
PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 miles per hour winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, killing at least one person, swamping homes and forcing the...
LONDON (AP) — Britain imposed tougher restrictions Thursday on people and businesses in parts of northeastern England as the nation attempts to stem the spread of COVID-19 before the colder winter months. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2020 | 12:09 AM
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): About 12 million people in South Africa have “probably” been infected with the coronavirus, but that startlingly high number has not caused a similarly high death rate and might indicate a widespread “level of...
Published:Thursday | September 17, 2020 | 12:08 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): Israel on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony that President Donald Trump declared will mark the “dawn of a new Middle East,” casting himself as an international peacemaker...
