Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/20/more-than-two-dozen-gang-members-killed-after-attempted-attack-in-haiti https://aje.io/eu5pdi Police and armed residents have killed 28 gang members after they attempted to attack a...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Fort Pierce missionaries to Haiti will resume operations after receiving a flight ban waiver Wednesday. Missionary Flights International may land at airports in northern Haiti,...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Paris, Wednesday November 20, 2024 In a video posted on social media, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his displeasure over the dismissal of former Haitian...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from The City Paper Bogotá
Colombian President Gustavo Petro voiced strong support for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Petro labeled...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
The International Criminal Court's issuing of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, while unlikely to result in any trial, represents a blow to Israel's international standing.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from NYT > Americas
Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, November 19, 2024 — A series of threats by Haitian police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from The City Paper Bogotá » News
Bogotá Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán and Police Chief José Gualdrón launched a major operation to recover Bogotá's city center from criminal organizations.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from NYT > Americas
Mexico is banking on its ability to negotiate with a deal maker like Donald J. Trump, and many officials say the country is better prepared and has more leverage than it did during his first term.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
More than two weeks into Trump's transition, we know what he wants Musk to do come January, but Vance, the supposed future of MAGA, not so much.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
A large number of Jan. 6 defendants are awaiting news from President-elect Donald Trump on whether and how he might make good on a promise to pardon them.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Book bans have increased by nearly 200% in American schools. Will Trump's reelection inspire a new round of right-wing attacks on books about race and gender? Some conservatives feel emboldened.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
In his first term as president, Trump managed to impose his will on the Middle East. That will be harder this time.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from NYT > Americas
The Canadian authorities are preparing for a possible spike in undocumented migrants, just as Trump appointees complain about too many people arriving from Canada.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Latin America
Doctors Without Borders has suspended activities in Port Au Prince, Haiti, after receiving threats from local police forces. Director of Mission Christophe Fournier provides an update.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian peer Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday upgraded the status of diplomatic relations and struck agreements on infrastructure, energy and...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega proposed a constitutional reform to expand presidential powers over other branches of government, according to an official document seen by Reuters yesterday. The article...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Jamaica Gleaner) In a first for Jamaica, 16 tonnes of liquid medical-grade oxygen have been exported to Caribbean neighbour The Bahamas. The article Massy Gas Jamaica going after regional medical gas market share appeared first on...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
CAIMITO, Cuba, (Reuters) – Cuban farmer Leonardo Abreu clambered over fallen banana plants in a field beside his home, taking stock of the wreckage two weeks after Category 3 Hurricane Rafael ripped across Cuba. The...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Suriname’s state-run oil company Staatsolie said yesterday that U.S. The article Suriname’s Staatsolie says Exxon has withdrawn from offshore block appeared first on Stabroek News .Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Metry Seaga, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), is dismissing assertions that the Holness administration’s policy shift towards economic growth is aimed at wooing uptown votes, asserting instead that it is...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Principals at two Corporate Area institutions are seeking to navigate a period of mourning while safeguarding against a school-on-school clash in the aftermath of the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old boy on Tuesday. The deceased, Amari...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
An unusual situation has surfaced in a civil case in the Supreme Court in which Justice Leighton Pusey has indicated that he plans to strike out the claimant’s and the defendant’s statements of case on the basis that they do not disclose...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
To prevent young journalists from being compelled to leave the profession in search of better mental health, media managers have been urged to start focussing on the psychological effects that reporting on crime and other dangerous...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Western Bureau: While not providing any supporting data, the Hanover Health Department (HHD) says it has uncovered several cases of the common childhood illness hand, foot, and mouth (HFM) disease in the parish and is now taking steps to...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: An extraordinary student from Montego Bay Community College has made history by earning the prestigious Caribbean Award for Humanities in the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC’s) Caribbean Advanced Proficiency...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from NYT > Americas
Randy Boissonnault, who resigned as employment minister, had long described himself as the great-grandson of a Cree woman, but now acknowledges he was wrong about his family’s ancestry.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean
The president-elect has repeatedly pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants once in office.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Federal officials release a proposal outlining options for new, long-term rules for managing chronic water shortages from the overtapped Colorado River.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from NYT > Americas
The film, whose cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed in a shooting on the set, was screened at a festival devoted to cinematography.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from The City Paper Bogotá
Medellín mayor Federico Gutiérrez wants to clamp down on narco-tours of the city's Comuna 13 and the sale of merchandise that references the druglord of the infamous drugs cartel.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF) Haïti tire la sonnette d’alarme : 350 000 enfants haïtiens ont été déplacés en raison de l’escalade...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Tuesday said that it was suspending operations in the Haitian capital amid “violence and threats” towards its staff from members of the...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Express) Port workers have been directed by the Industrial Court to return to work with immediate effect. The article Trinidad port protesters ordered back to work appeared first on Stabroek News .Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Trump has promised to forcibly remove homeless people and place them in tent cities. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass does not believe aggressive tactics will be needed, but said she looks forward to working with Trump on the crisis.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Stress from politics isn't fundamentally different from other kinds of stress, but it can encompass and enhance other sources of anxiety, experts say.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Latin America
Residents have been angered by the latest gang attacks. Violence forced Haiti's main airport to shut down last week after the country swore in a new prime minister.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) bp has been awarded the NCMA 2 block offshore Trinidad as part of the Shallow Water 2023/24 bid round that closed in May 2024. The article bp awarded NCMA 2 exploration block in Trinidad appeared first on Stabroek News .Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Jamaica Gleaner) The two policemen charged for the recent shooting deaths of two men and a teen boy along Windward Road in Kingston were today remanded for a bail application on December 17. The article Jamaica cops charged with...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday called Venezuela’s Edmundo Gonzalez the country’s “president-elect” for the first time, signaling that Washington...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Stabroek News » Regional News
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The Argentine government will call for a national and international public tender to privatize its stretch of the Paraguay-Parana waterway through a 30-year concession, cabinet chief...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Consideration for the removal of taxes on tips and an efficiency committee headline the Holness administration’s pivot towards boosting economic growth, setting the stage for a potential policy showdown with the Opposition ahead of a...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
A UC Rusal employee wrongfully fired two years ago, despite being cleared of intentionally taking scrap metal from his employer, has been awarded $3.5 million and will be reinstated after the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) ruled his...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Workers at Excellence Oyster Bay in Trelawny returned to work yesterday after the hotel’s management agree to more favourable working conditions and better remuneration. The staff walked off the job on Monday morning,...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Ajanae Parchment, the 11-year-old whose scoliosis surgery was cancelled last month due to issues at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), will undergo the procedure today. The surgery, which doctors have indicated is high risk, is...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
There is an urgent need for new strategies to mitigate the risk of antimicrobial resistance, especially as deaths from this issue are projected to rise among older adults, Dr Osbil Watson, chief veterinary officer in the Ministry of...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Jamaica can expect continued support from the Norwegian government in its effort to mitigate the impact of climate change, state secretary from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Bjorg Sandkjaer, has affirmed. “We work very...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Motorists affected by the closure of the Raheen main road, which connects Siloah and Balaclava in St Elizabeth, are becoming increasingly frustrated. Following a further collapse of the road as a result of heavy rains associated with...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Balaclava Councillor Everton Fisher is urging the health ministry to take stronger action in regulating the production and consumption of sugar in food and beverages. While acknowledging the efforts of Health Minister Dr Christopher...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Trump nominated Linda McMahon for secretary of Education, despite her limited experience in school management. He lauded her support of 'school choice' and 'parents' rights.'