ROME (AP): Venice will extend its day-tripper tax through next year, increasing the number of days on which tourists have to pay to enter the city and doubling the fee to €10 (US$10.80) for last-minute visitors, city officials said on Thursday....
TORONTO (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that the country will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants it allows into the country after acknowledging that his government failed to get the balance right coming out...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election, dismissing a request by some party members to not run for a fourth term. Trudeau met with his Liberal members of Parliament...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Widespread flooding and landslides set off by a tropical storm in the northeastern Philippines on Thursday left at least 24 people dead, swept away cars and prompted authorities to scramble for motorboats to rescue...
LONDON (AP) — British killer nurse Lucy Letby lost her bid Thursday to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care. Letby, 34, is serving multiple life sentences with no chance of release...
TORONTO (AP): Some lawmakers in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s own Liberal Party asked the leader not to run for a fourth term Wednesday, handing him one of the biggest tests of his political career. Three Liberal members of Parliament said they...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Guyana’s President, Dr Irfaan Ali, Wednesday urged regional countries to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in education, warning that failure to do so could result in the Caribbean being left behind in an era of...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Protesters with automatic weapons targeted police and firefighters in the French Caribbean island of Martinique during a fresh round of violent demonstrations, the government said Wednesday. No injuries were reported,...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (AP): Doctors, nurses and activists in Antigua and Barbuda are fighting a colonial-era law that largely bans abortions, igniting a debate about women’s reproductive rights on the tiny twin-island nation. A top local court ruled...
HAVANA (AP): Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing electric grid as promised, some experts say. In a nation with...
WASHINGTON (AP): Ukraine will receive $50 billion in loans, backed by frozen Russian assets, from Group of Seven (G7) allies, the White House said Wednesday. Distribution of the money will begin by year’s end, according to American officials who...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, says it has come as a “complete surprise” to have learnt that his biological father was the late Sir Anthony Montague Browne, who owned slaves on a plantation in Jamaica and was later...
AVIGNON (AP): They are, on the face of it, the most ordinary of men. Yet they’re all on trial charged with rape. Fathers, grandfathers, husbands, workers and retirees – 50 in all – accused of taking turns on the drugged and inert body of Gisèle...
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting her two young sons last year. Tiffanie Lucas entered guilty pleas to murder charges in Bullitt County Court, news outlets reported. She had...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, has been charged with using a weapon of...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Schools in Mexico have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines, officials said Monday, as authorities confront what they call the worst childhood obesity problem in the world. The...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States government has “strongly” condemned the ongoing gang violence in the Haitian capital of Port- au- Prince, which it says is aimed at “destablising” the government in the French-speaking CARICOM country. Armed...
KAMPALA (AP): At least 11 people were killed Tuesday after a fuel truck exploded next to a highway in Uganda, police said. The truck overturned after an accident and later exploded in a town just outside Kampala, the capital, police spokesman...
CANBERRA (AP): An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament on Monday. Senator Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global war against inflation has largely been won — and at surprisingly little cost to economic growth, the International Monetary Fund declared Tuesday. In its latest assessment of the global economy, the IMF...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police on Monday clashed with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs. Solino has been under attack since Thursday, with residents...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Schools in Mexico have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines, officials said Monday, as authorities confront what they call the worst childhood obesity problem in the world. The rules...
HAVANA (AP): Cuba’s capital was largely paralysed on Monday and the rest of the island braced for the fourth night of a massive blackout that has generated a handful of small protests and a stern government warning that any unrest will be punished...
ST GEORGES, Grenada, (CMC): Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has announced plans to build a shrine at Fort George to honour deceased Revolutionary leader, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and others who lost their lives on October 19, 1983, as a...
The international Fintech Islands Experience (FiX) returns to the Caribbean for its third successive year, from January 22-24, 2025, focusing on three core pillars, as it seeks to fulfil its mission to build out the fintech ecosystem in the region...
