SACRAMENTO (AP) — California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution currently bans it except as punishment for crime. That exemption became a target of…
BRIDGETOWN — Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of the Caribbean and Latin America’s economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank…
SAN JUAN — Wet and unstable weather conditions will prevail across the region as moisture associated with a tropical wave continues to filter into the area, the National Weather Service said this morning. Additional rainfall…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who was previously…
HAVANA — Back-to-back earthquakes hit southeastern Cuba on Sunday, damaging houses, buildings and power lines as well as causing landslides, the government said. The United States Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred…
Governments across the world are struggling in this period of economic and geopolitical turmoil At the time of writing, vice-president Kamala Harris has won almost four percentage points less of the popular vote than President…
FREDERIKSTED — An off-duty police officer was injured after being shot while leaving a Concordia Manor residence early this morning. The case began at 2:02 a.m., when a 911 dispatcher got a report from St.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart. The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith early Tuesday morning and the Northern Taurids on November 12.…
LONDON (AP) — Manchester City has never had it this bad under Pep Guardiola. Guardiola has never had it this bad in his managerial career. A sense of crisis is looming over the champions of…
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said at the U.N. General Assembly that his country would send 150 military police officers to help Haiti fight violent gangs. The announcement comes as a U.N.-backed…