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The Ministry of Health and Wellness is stepping up its immunisation programme to reach children and adults who might have missed doses during the pandemic. Director of Family Health Services in the Ministry, Dr Melody Ennis, told JIS News that...
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PARIS (AP) — Global negotiators have agreed to craft a draft treaty to end plastic pollution, a preliminary but crucial step toward tackling one of the most lasting sources of human waste. Environmental advocates cautiously welcomed the...
MIAMI (AP): A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman on Friday to life in prison for his role in helping a group of Colombian mercenaries obtain weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Rodolphe Jaar,...
PORT OF SPAIN(CMC): National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has blamed “a very wild-card commissioner of police” who, he said, had in recent times defied government policy and allowed for a certain category of weapons and ammunition to be...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Legislators on Thursday met for the final time in the 200-year-old two-storey building that housed the parliament of St Vincent and the Grenadines as well as a courthouse. The building, located across from the historic Market...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing more than 200 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. The accident that happened about 137 miles southwest of...
NICANOR, Panama (AP) — Panama launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia on Friday to combat criminal gangs and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year....
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed Friday in the Gulf of Mexico on a track taking the cyclone south toward the western tip of Cuba. National Hurricane Center forecasters...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Clashes between police and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko left nine people dead, the government said Friday, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of enduring strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool....
LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. For Rastafari, the practice brings...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected Thursday as the next president of the UN General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ condemnation of Russia’s...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Another girls’ dormitory was destroyed by fire on Thursday. According to police reports, early Thursday, shortly before 3 a.m. (local time) , the blaze destroyed another dormitory, this time in Karasabai, Rupununi, in Region Nine...
CHICAGO (AP): A Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali plans to plead guilty, her attorney said Thursday. The details of any plea agreement or potential penalties under...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Authorities in have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there. The bags found at a forest overlook contained remains of men and women,...
The People's Republic of China’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Chen Daojiang, gave notice on Tuesday that his country will never again cede sovereignty of Taiwan, declaring that this issue is an internal one that must be resolved by the Chinese. “We...
