Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Neil Gaiman, the bestselling fantasy author, denied sexual abuse allegations made by eight women in an explosive New York magazine article.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby on Tuesday criticised his predecessor, Delroy Williams, for allowing building works to proceed without the necessary permits during his time in office. Swaby’s remarks were a key topic at the Kingston and St...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from The City Paper Bogotá
The Colombia es Música Sacra tour arrived in Puerto Asís,Putumayo, with Camëntsá women from JASHNAN performing ancestral songs in a Catholic church. The event celebrated Indigenous resilience, cultural preservation, and reconciliation...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
The FDA banned the use of red dye No. 3 in foods and medicines sold in the U.S. because it has been shown to cause cancer in rats. The action highlights the limits of a federal law known as the Delaney clause.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
MICHAEL COLLINS, 15 janvier 2025 Le 11 mars, alors qu’Haïti était sur le point de créer un gouvernement provisoire, dirigé par Mirlande Manigat, et que...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Rubio and Trump have put aside past acrimony to make the Florida lawmaker the least controversial in an unusual slate of Cabinet picks.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
A cease-fire deal promises to end more than a year of conflict in Gaza Strip.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
MICHAEL COLLINS, January 15, 2025 On March 11, just as Haiti was about to create a Provisional Government, under Mirlande Manigat, and the Constitutional –...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from NYT > Americas
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal may be posturing, but it could dampen the Panamanian government’s wish to broaden relations with the United States, analysts say.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Norman Brown, business partner of Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, has secured court approval to challenge sections of an Integrity Commission (IC) report regarding tax compliance concerns involving a real estate development company...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from The City Paper Bogotá » News
A wildfire in Colombia’s Chingaza National Park is threatening a high-altitude wetland that supplies Bogotá with water amid ongoing rationing. Suspected arson, hot weather, and strong winds complicate containment efforts by emergency...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Jamaica Gleaner) GraceKennedy Limited has named Frank James as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as it announced the retirement of Don Wehby from the post. The article GraceKennedy announces new CEO as Don Wehby retires appeared...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
Exclusive: US companies are increasingly shipping toxic waste to other countries, where some argue it poses a risk US companies ship more than 1m tons of hazardous waste to other countries each year, raising questions over possible...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
China has strengthened trade with Latin America at the expense of the U.S. But Donald Trump, who threatens to raise tariffs on Mexico, could upend those ties.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Latin America
The Biden administration has announced that it is lifting the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. But when the Trump administration takes over, will the decision be reversed?Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Latin America
President Biden notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. label of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as part of a deal aided by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Biden administration said yesterday it would remove Cuba from its terrorism blacklist, while Cuba said separately it would release upward of 500 prisoners from its jails, dual announcements poised...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
GENEVA, (Reuters) – More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.N. The...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
Statement from Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher. Recent comments made in the National Parliament have generated public commentary related to the operational readiness and courage of police officers in the discharge of...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The Ministry of Health...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The absence of sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to verify $295.5 million in journal adjustments at the Export Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has been flagged as a concern by the auditor general....Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness’ flagship housing initiative for poor Jamaicans is one of several flagged by Auditor General (AuG) Pamela Monroe Ellis for offering duplicated services in need of reform. The New Social Housing Programme...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Two of five men implicated in the almost-$12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew, last August have been granted $3 million bail. Junior Haldane, 72, and George Sterling were last month offered bail by Justice Leighton Pusey on...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The police are reviewing traffic tickets issued by a St Mary-based constable using the electronic ticketing system, the Ministry of National Security has revealed. It comes amid public concerns after The Sunday Gleaner reported that the...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
A probe has been launched into the stabbing and strangulation murder of a landlord, allegedly committed by his tenant, at the property where they lived on Allerdyce Road in St Andrew. The deceased man is 56-year-old Roger Evans, who was...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Responding to Monday’s protest by transport operators in Maroon Town, St James, who withdrew their services to express frustration over the poor condition of the roads, St James East Central Member of Parliament (MP)...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
The bill would require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are suspected of minor theft and cede some federal immigration enforcement power to states.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Americas
The decision is the latest in a series of conflicting U.S. approaches to Cuba by different administrations.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
In its waning days, the first Trump administration put Cuba on terrorism list. Biden is removing it.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean
President Biden moves to reverse the designation introduced by Donald Trump before he returns to office.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
President-elect vows creation of agency as soon as he takes office in further push for regime of taxes on foreign imports Donald Trump has said he will create an “external revenue service” as soon as he returns to the White House next...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Americas
When border crossings grew out of control in 2023, the U.S. pressured Mexico to do something. Officials rebuked the immigration chief and stripped him of a key power, an investigation shows.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from The City Paper Bogotá
Bogotá's Chingaza reservoirs could drop to 20% capacity by March, warns the Ombudsman’s Office. With the dry season intensifying, water rationing may tighten despite Aqueduct Company assurances that current levels are normal for this...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
A number of TikTok users appear to be turning to an app called RedNote — more commonly known to its majority-Chinese audience by its Chinese name, Xiaohongshu.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Catherine, Princess of Wales, confirmed Tuesday that her cancer is in remission during a visit with the staff and patients of the Royal Marsden in Chelsea.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
The report, arriving just days before Trump is to return to office, focuses fresh attention on his failed effort to cling to power after his election loss in 2020.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Anthony Herrera never evacuated his Altadena home during the Eaton fire last week, and said he was told by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department that if he leaves now, he can’t return.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from The City Paper Bogotá » News
Colombia faces escalating tensions with Venezuela as former President Álvaro Uribe advocates U.N-backed military intervention. As President-elect Trump’s inauguration looms, questions about U.S. policy toward the crisis and regional...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says some police officers are now pretending to close stations to hide from criminals. The article Trinidad PM: Fearful police officers hiding in stations from criminals appeared first...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean
More than a million people have had to flee their homes due to the ongoing gang violence.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
Investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste Raquel Villarreal lives in a bright-yellow house in Mexico’s Monterrey metropolitan area with her family and nine cats. Here, the...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said yesterday his office has requested an arrest warrant and Interpol red notice against opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez, who spent years in detention in Venezuela and...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are being reminded that the ban on the distribution and use of single-use plastic food containers took effect on January 9, and as such these items are prohibited. The article Jamaicans reminded that...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Express) Shane Gomez has been charged with the murder of his wife, Stacy Gopaulsingh, who was hacked to death in her home two days before Christmas Day last year. The article Trinidad woman’s husband charged with murdering her...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Express) A woman was shot dead while walking to work in Port of Spain yesteday. The article Trinidad woman shot dead on way to work appeared first on Stabroek News .Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian judge yesterday threw out a money laundering trial that began last year involving former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, who was accused of received illegal funds from a Brazilian construction...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s soybean and corn crops will have to endure a heat wave over the next few days that will affect their yields, leading meteorologist German Heinzenknecht said on Monday, before rains bring some...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
A gun attack carried out Monday night by men on motorcycles against residents of 75 and 77 Lanes, off Waltham Park Road in St Andrew, has left the community on edge, with fears of escalating violence. The area, which falls within the St...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The People’s National Party (PNP) is rejecting allegations that it was negotiating millions of dollars with Lawrence Rowe, who it has discarded as its representative for Kingston Central in the general election due by September. The...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Kingston Technical High School has launched the celebrations for its 129th anniversary with weeklong activities focused on fostering a culture of giving back among current students and honouring alumni who have contributed to the...