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Five shot @ gospel event in Jamaica
JAMAICA OBSERVER
MANCHESTER, Jamaica – Five people, including a woman, were shot during an attack at a gospel concert and fun day event in Christiana in Manchester on Tuesday night.
Anguilla targets golf tourism to lure visitors
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The Anguilla Tourist Board (ATB) said will be targeting the lucrative golf tourism market to attract more visitors to the island.
Antiguan creates history to head NYC Department of Correction
LOOP
NEW YORK, USA - Attorney Lynelle Maginley-Liddie has created history by becoming the first Caribbean national and second Black woman to assume the role of Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC). in its 128-year history.
Suriname court upholds conviction of ex-president Bouterse in activist murders
REUTERS
PARAMARIBO, Suriname – A three-judge panel in Suriname upheld the conviction of former President Desi Bouterse for his role in the December 1982 execution of 15 people in the former Dutch colony.
French woman goes missing in Grenada
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A search is underway for a missing French woman in Grenada.
Antiguan soca artiste Ricardo Drue has died
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The regional music fraternity has been thrust into mourning with news of the passing of Ricardo Drue.
Three Cubans to face up to 30 years in jail for anti-government propaganda, violence
REUTERS
HAVANA, Cuba – Three Cubans are facing up to 30 years in jail for anti-government propaganda and violence, state-run media said, in attacks authorities allege were funded from outside Cuba and aimed to destabilize the island’s government.
US puts visa curbs on those accuses of ‘anti-democratic’ moves in Guatemala
REUTERS
WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY – The U.S. government announced measures yesterday to punish what it has described as anti-democratic moves by officials including Guatemala’s top prosecutor that seek to annul the election won decisively by President-elect Bernardo Arevalo.
Maduro orders 'immediate' expansion into Guyana's Essequibo
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday directed the country's state-owned companies to "immediately" begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas, and mines in Guyana's Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own.
Ex-DEA informant pleads guilty to role in killing Haitian president
REUTERS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Joseph Vincent, a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), on Tuesday became the fourth person to plead guilty in a U.S. court for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti's president that left a destabilizing power vacuum.