Rising seas force Panama Indigenous families to leave island homes
PANAMA CITY — Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama's coast that is fast disappearing.…
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Forced to rebuild a life at 12, a Haitian girl joins thousands seeking an escape from gang violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — For 12-year-old Juliana St. Vil, life begins every afternoon. She bounds out of the crowded shelter where she’s been sleeping on the concrete floor for 10 months,…
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As killings surge, Haitians struggle to bury loved ones and find closure in violent capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Dressed in black and white, the crowd of angry teenagers squeezed into a narrow street in Haiti’s capital. They stopped in front of a cemetery and hoisted…
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Haitians demand the resignation and arrest of the country’s police chief after a new gang attack
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti’s police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital…
Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’
JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth and serious discussions,” the Hamas militant group said today, reiterating key demands that Israel again…
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CARICOM members Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago recognize State of Palestine: OPINION
Amidst what Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley described as the world’s first televised genocide in Gaza, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds announced April 19,…
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Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a…
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US deports about 50 Haitians to nation hit with gang violence, ending monthslong pause in flights
MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation…
Caribbean ambassador calls for global action to establish slavery tribunal
BRIDGETOWN — A high-level Caribbean ambassador said today it was crucial to establish a new international special tribunal to seek reparations for transatlantic slavery and its legacies in today's society.…
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UN debunks rumors of Haitian refugee tent cities in the Dominican Republic
NEW YORK — The United Nations clarified today that it has no plans to set up tent cities in the Dominican Republic for refugees from Haiti, refuting circulating rumors. The…