PARIS (AP): After more than 20 years of negotiations, the 27-nation European Union and Mercosur – a South American trade bloc of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia – are still trying to finalise a major trade agreement that is...
The government of The Bahamas has officially completed the process to become the newest shareholder country of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. On November 27 The Bahamas finalised its status as a “Series C Shareholder”,...
Regional leaders are assembling at the Connected Caribbean Summit 2024 (CCS 2024) in Miami to deliberate on practical strategies to accelerate Caribbean advance from the “status quo to true transformation”. Lead convenor of the summit, Bevil...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER (AP): Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each time. The 86-year-old has no way of knowing which grave...
MEXICO CITY (AP): It’s been called the closest the world has ever come to a vaccine against the AIDS virus. The twice-yearly shot was 100 per cent effective in preventing HIV infections in a study of women, and results published on Wednesday show...
THE HAGUE (AP): The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history today, when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary...
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday to have dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club after Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian...
NYANGAMBE, Zimbabwe (AP): At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple cholera outbreaks in...
LONDON (AP) — British Transport Minister Louise Haigh resigned on Friday over a decade-old fraud conviction for claiming her cellphone had been stolen. In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Haigh said, "I remain totally committed...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. About 200 warehouse workers and delivery drivers...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The US territory of Puerto Rico has yet to produce a certified vote tally for a single district almost a month after holding historic general elections. Then on Wednesday, a judge issued a ruling that sparked an outcry...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): National Security Minister, Wayne Munroe, has dismissed suggestions that he is the “high-ranking politician” being referred to by United States law enforcement authorities to facilitate a cocaine trafficking scheme. Munroe...
MANILA, (AP): Philippine police officials on Wednesday filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in a recent altercation in Congress. The...
MELBOURNE (AP): A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was drenched in rain Thursday and briefly disrupted by Pro-Palestinian demonstrators. New York City police said they arrested 21 people after protesters sat down on the parade route with...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs was denied bail on Wednesday as he awaits a May sex trafficking trial by a judge who cited evidence showing him to be a "serious risk" of witness tampering and proof he has tried to hide...
PIEDMONT, California (AP) — Three people were killed and one seriously injured early Wednesday when a Tesla Cybertruck crashed and caught fire in Northern California, officials said. Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said speed was likely...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 11:48 AM
Last time Donald Trump was president, rumours of immigration raids terrorised the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent. Word spread that immigration agents were going to try to enter schools. There was no...
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A police officer who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a taser was found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court Wednesday. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:11 AM
MANILA, Philippines (AP): A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice- president is testing an Asian democracy that has long been troubled by rowdy politics, poor law enforcement and bareface...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:11 AM
DAKAR, Senegal (AP): Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a two-month operation clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, including some who were trafficked, and produced millions in financial damages, the...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:09 AM
PANAMA CITY (CMC): Four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been included in the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES) that aims to support countries in implementing and consolidating their school feeding and nutrition programmes....
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:09 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar Tuesday vowed to take “aggressive action” against all illegal Venezuelan migrants of her party is victorious in the next general election should the Venezuelan migrant...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:09 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25 per cent import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop...
