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...
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...
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,...
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...
By EDITH M. LEDERERUpdated 8:31 PM PST, November 20, 2024 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
L’Agence Presslakay Alors que les gangs armés criminels ont intensifié leurs attaques dans la région métropolitaine, plusieurs présumés assaillants ont été mortellement blessés ce mardi...
A major fire on Ashenheim Road in St Andrew on Monday has left millions of dollars in damage, destroying 90 per cent of Pure Ice Factory’s assets and all of the inventory Azan’s Supercentre was storing for its Cross Road branch with the...
There is a rift within the ranks of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in Manchester North Eastern over who should be its candidate in the upcoming general election as Audley Shaw exits the political arena at the end of his current term....
Derek Osbourne, a fisherman from Rocky Point in Clarendon, has been venturing out for more than 40 years and has lost at least two boats to the sea. Last August, he came close to losing a third when it drifted from its anchor at Pedro...
Emergency responders and teary-eyed vendors worked tirelessly on Monday to salvage goods as a raging fire destroyed 95 shops at the Pearnel Charles Arcade on Church Street in downtown Kingston. Janet ‘Netty’ Mitchell, a vendor at the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy is unlikely to significantly impact visitor arrivals to Jamaica, according to a number of the island’s tourism experts. Spirit Airlines, the biggest US budget...
A nearby breakaway that has reduced traffic to a single lane is posing a serious risk to students at Retirement Primary School in St Elizabeth. Acting Principal Leon Chisholm voiced concern in an interview with The Gleaner last Thursday....
The Caribbean Digital Transformation Project’s Project Implementation Unit, operating under the Ministry of Public Works, Public Utilities, and Digital Economy, organized the CSIRTAMERICA Week in Dominica from September 24 to 27,...
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The United Workers Party (UWP) and prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit have clashed over a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program lawsuit which has been filed by the opposition party. Skerrit is accusing the UWP of attempting to stop the...
A two-day Independence Art Exhibition, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports, and Community Development and the Cultural Division, recently showcased a collection of local art pieces at the Government...
Dominica’s Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program has secured the second spot in the eighth edition of the 2024 CBI Index. The CBI Index is a rating system developed to assess the performance and attractiveness of CBI programs...
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit issued a warning to the Dominican public at a press conference earlier this week, to not taint the recent success of the nation’s first Olympic gold medalist Thea Lafond-Gadson with negative conjectures...
At a press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said he is confident that the Visa Waiver agreement to grant Dominicans access to the United Kingdom (UK) will eventually be reinstated. In July 2023, the British Home...
The National Bank of Dominica Ltd. (NBD) is thrilled to announce the installation of one of its newest Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) at its Canefield Branch on Tuesday, October 01, 2024. This highly anticipated installation marks a...
Minister for Finance, Economic Development, Climate Resilience and Social Security Dr Irving McIntyre while representing the prime minister at the official opening ceremony of ‘Police Week’ 2024, encouraged police officers to continue...
DOWASCO apologizes to customers in GIRAUDEL, EGGLESTON, BEAU BOIS, REIGATE and UPPER CASTLE COMFORT as the interruption of their water supply will continue into tomorrow Wednesday, October 2, until 5:00pm. This interruption is necessary...
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Meta, the parent company of the Facebook and Instagram networks, was once again called upon to review its rules on nudity The post <strong>Instagram Calls for More Equal Rights to Show Women and Transsexuals’ Nipples</strong>...
A new documentary from E! Entertainment exposes the dangers and risks of the current well-being of mental health, The post “Voces de E!”: Documentary Analyzes the Impact of Social Media on Mental Health appeared first on The Costa Rica...
The magazine of the American Heart Association published an article a few days ago in which it estimated the benefits The post If Eating Healthy Reduces Mortality, Why Don’t They<br>Make Us Do It? appeared first on The Costa...
Losing weight is one of the purposes that is repeated the most with the entry of each new year. It is also the least fulfilled. The post Best Types of Diets to Lose Weight, according to Science appeared first on The Costa Rica News .
Did you know that Kiska is the only orca living in captivity in Canada? For 11 years in a row, she has lived alone in the MarineLand The post Kiska: The Loneliest Orca in the World appeared first on The Costa Rica News .
Telecommuting is an option that many employers adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially to prevent the spread of the virus. The post Project in Costa Rica Seeks to Provide Legal Certainty to Those Who Decide Teleworking from...
Costa Rica was the host country of the International Cancer Summit, an event that recently brought together prestigious specialists in oncology The post Costa Rica Was Host Country of Cancer <strong>International...
Remember that the Envision Festival is an awakening of the soul, a focus emphasized on the pillars of movement, spirituality, music, art, health, The post Envisión Festival: 12 Years Connecting Cultures appeared first on The Costa Rica...
Researchers from the American company Rejuvenate Bio have just pre-published a study in which they claim to have extended the life The post Scientists Say They Edited the Genes of Mice to ‘Double’ Their Lifespan appeared...