(Jamaica Observer) Nationwide News Network (NNN) CEO Cliff Hughes remained fearless on Friday, declaring that he and his staff will not be unnerved by a mid-afternoon gun attack on the station that has been widely condemned as an assault on press freedom.
(Jamaica Observer) Nationwide News Network (NNN) CEO Cliff Hughes remained fearless on Friday, declaring that he and his staff will not be unnerved by a mid-afternoon gun attack on the station that has been widely condemned as an assault on press freedom.
BEIJING/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro arrived in China yesterday, his first visit in five years, to renew engagement between the two countries as China’s ties sour with the West and the South American country seeks fresh financing.
(Trinidad Express) Two men were found in Caroni on Thursday afternoon with gunshot wounds; and while one of the men was rushed to hospital where he died, the other was pronounced dead on the scene.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Poor young Ecua-doreans are choosing to join criminal gangs as an easy way to escape poverty due to a lack of opportunity, according to a UN Special Rapporteur, who urged the country to increase social investment to combat violence.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will visit China from today, Beijing said, marking renewed engagement between the two countries as China’s ties sour with Western capitals.
(Reuters) – A retired Colom-bian army officer pleaded guilty in a U.S.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban authorities said they had arrested 17 people on charges related to a ring of human traffickers that allegedly lured young Cuban men to serve in the Russian military amid the Ukraine conflict.
(Reuters) – Hurricane Lee has intensified to a Category 4 storm and is “rapidly strengthening” as it churns through the Caribbean yesterday, the U.S.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Thursday vigorously backed his party’s selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate to succeed him in 2024, dismissing objections about the process by her main rival, who threatened to quit the party.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged Brazilians to unite around common goals ahead of an Independence Day parade yesterday, as he seeks to tackle the politicization of the armed forces that gathered steam under his right-wing predecessor.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s suspension of a decree enabling environmental consultations prior to the licensing of industrial and mining projects has paralyzed investments worth $2 billion, business associations said yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil rose to 36, local authorities said yesterday, as a tropical cyclone battered and soaked the region, flooding homes and swelling rivers.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Mexican ruling party’s plans to name yesterday its candidate for next year’s presidential election were roiled by controversy when one of the leading contenders denounced the vote to pick a winner and said it must be redone.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s first-ever bidding round to license maritime blocks for offshore wind farms has been delayed, the ministry of mines and energy said.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The rapid spread of a citrus disease in Brazil has pushed orange juice prices to near record highs as it threatens years of output from orchards in the world’s largest producer.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of a scrap iron business in Claxton Bay was executed in a hail of bullets in his vehicle near his home on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) “I feel vindicated.” These were the words of Pastor Glen Awong as he spoke with the Express yesterday afternoon after a magistrate dismissed human trafficking charges against him.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago recorded six Covid-19 deaths in August and zero in July, according to the Health Ministry.
QUITO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A decade after Indigenous leader Alicia Cahuiya made a speech in Ecuador’s parliament to protest against oil exploration in the Amazon basin, she finally has something to celebrate.
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