NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has finalised its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it’s hardly a...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to him and his businesses for political reasons after he...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Deputy Governor of the Cayman Islands Franz Manderson says the Government is gearing up for a potential surge in migrants from Cuba amid the possibility of further economic deterioration in the Spanish-speaking...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program said Thursday that more than a million people in northeastern Nigeria could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks unless funding is secured, as violence and hunger...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The US warned the transitional council in charge of Haiti against making changes to the troubled country’s government late Wednesday, as pressure mounts for the unelected body to move toward elections for the first...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico sent 37 cartel members to United States at the request of the US Justice Department, with President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a “sovereign decision” by her government. Sheinbaum responded to criticism...
Nearly two years after a fire severely damaged two Information Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories at Bustamante High School, the Clarendon-based institution has received new state-of-the-art facilities through a public–private...
Renée Peters will graduate on January 31 from the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica with first class honours, a GPA of 4.04, and the title of valedictorian for the Faculty of Science and Sport. Her success is striking not only for its...
United States President Donald Trump's plans for bringing homeownership within reach of more Americans involve pushing for lower interest rates on home loans and credit cards, and banning large institutional investors from buying single-family...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Suriname has confirmed an outbreak of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, with none of the individuals who tested positive having travelled overseas in recent times. The Ministry of Health said laboratory tests were...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it has become aware of serious allegations of sexual exploitation, abuse of authority, and misconduct at the Guyana Police Force Academy. The Ministry of Home Affairs said that upon receipt of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana has confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the death of a 22-year-old pregnant woman, who is reported to have jumped to her death from a window of the female...
PENSACOLA (AP): A small part of Florida is the Snowy State for the second year in a row. Snow briefly covered the grass and rooftops in parts of the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday morning as just enough frigid air rushed in behind a cold...
KAMPALA (AP): President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that his landslide victory in Uganda’s election showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the east African country for four decades. Museveni said a day after he was declared the...
PENCO (AP): Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 15 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon. Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing...
TAIPEI (AP): A journalist in Taiwan was detained on allegations of bribing army officers to provide military information to people from mainland China, as the self-ruled island cracks down on potential infiltration from Beijing. Taiwan’s Qiaotou...
TABQA (AP) Government forces seized a strategic town Sunday in eastern Syria, part of an ongoing push against Kurdish-led forces east of the Euphrates River. This came after tensions between Damascus and the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...
BERLIN (AP) Europeans were reeling Sunday from US President Donald Trump’s announcement that eight countries will face 10 per cent tariffs for opposing American control of Greenland. The responses to Trump’s decision on Saturday ranged from saying...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A climate resilient hurricane shelter, able to withstand category five level disasters and flagged as a global best practice, has been opened and activated on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas, representing a tri-lateral...
NUUK (AP): Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the US highlighted “fundamental disagreement” over the future...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Council employee was arrested in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, enraging city officials and drawing protesters Tuesday to the Manhattan detention centre where he was being held. US Immigration...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Monday that his administration is currently not in talks with the United States government, a day after President Donald Trump threatened the Caribbean island in the wake of the US attack on...
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. The strike was taking place at The Mount Sinai...
SIAYA (AP): Rebecca Anyango stood outside the house she has called home for 26 years, wondering how long it will remain hers. As a widow, she’s been threatened with eviction for years by her late husband’s family, who claim she has no inheritance...
