GEORGETOWN (CMC) Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has proposed a bold idea to use artificial intelligence (AI) as a resource that can accelerate equitable economic growth, reduce disparities and address key global challenges. Ali outlined this...
The Caribbean Exami-nations Council (CXC) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) have announced a collaborative effort to establish a Regional Parent-Teacher Association (RPTA), an entity designed to unify and strengthen parent-teacher engagement...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The Israeli military backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics by its forces last month after phone video appeared to contradict its claims that their vehicles did not have emergency signals on when...
NEW YORK (AP) Economy Candy’s shelves brim with sweets from around the world – gummies from Germany, lollipops from Spain, chocolates from Japan, and a panoply of candies from across the US. Standing amid it all, columns of bright jellybeans to...
Coordinator of the Grenada National Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT), Jervis Dabreo, is urging continued vigilance following the release of a malicious video featuring visuals purportedly of Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. According to...
SEOUL (AP): The South Korean Constitutional Court’s decision to formally unseat President Yoon Suk Yeol is another test for the country’s democracy after the conservative-liberal divide deepened over his imposition of martial law and subsequent...
BANGKOK (AP): Countries and industries were scrambling Friday to respond as President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs hikes upend global trade and world markets. China took the toughest approach so far, responding to the 34 per cent tariff imposed by...
BRUSSELS (AP): The UK and French foreign ministers on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet in ceasefire talks aimed at halting Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, and demanded a swift response from Russia after...
TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the measures that El Salvador has taken to reduce violence caused by powerful street gangs during a...
BRUSSELS (AP): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary members of the US commitment to the alliance. Rubio on Thursday decried “hysteria and hyperbole” in the media about US...
ATHENS (AP): Two boats carrying migrants sank in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving at least 16 people dead, one missing and more than 40 survivors, Greek and Turkish officials...
FRANKFURT (AP): US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs shocked governments and investors, provoking dismay, threats of retaliation and calls for negotiations to rescind the stiff new import taxes imposed on goods from countries around the...
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago rose Thursday to 3,085 as search and rescue teams found more bodies, the military-led government said, and humanitarian aid groups scrambled to provide...
AP: Anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the US to fall even further than expected this year, an influential travel forecasting company said Tuesday. Tourism Economics said it expects...
CAIRO (AP): At least two people were killed in attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary forces on a famine-stricken camp in North Darfur for people displaced by the war in the country, officials and humanitarian organisations said. The Abo Shouk...
BANGKOK (AP): Myanmar’s ruling military declared a temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war Wednesday to facilitate relief efforts following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 3,000 people. The announcement by the military’...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The sweeping new tariffs announced Wednesday by US President Donald Trump were met initially with measured reactions from key trading partners, highlighting the lack of appetite for a full-fledged trade war. Trump presented...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all US trading partners — a 34 per cent tax on imports from China and 20 per cent on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): The UN food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as supplies dwindle after Israel sealed off the territory from all imports nearly a month ago. Israel, which later resumed its...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) celebrated its 24th anniversary in office over the last weekend with Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves using the occasion to urge supporters to ensure that the party wins a sixth consecutive term...
DUBAI (AP): Iran’s president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, offering Tehran’s first response to a letter President Donald Trump sent to the...
PARIS (AP): A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years – a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics. Le Pen’s...
BANGKOK (AP): The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as rescuers and an activist group said several hundred Muslims died while praying at mosques during Ramadan and 200 Buddhist monks...
MIAMI GARDENS, Florida (AP) — A bus driver fatally shot two passengers over the weekend in a Miami suburb but authorities were still sorting out the circumstances that led to the shooting, police said Monday. The driver was arrested and...
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll in last week's massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media reported Monday, as rescuers and an activist group said it killed several hundred Muslims praying at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan...
