At least 25 killed in Nicaragua protests, including one journalist, say human rights groups
MANAGUA - In Nicaragua, what began as demonstrations against social security reforms have become a national outcry against corruption, censorship and overall repression. In just five days of demonstrations, the government has carried out a violent crackdown. While state sources are reporting a death toll of ten, human rights and protest groups estimate More...
Trinidad and Tobago ministers meet with UN representatives over deportation of Venezuelan migrants
PORT OF SPAIN - Minister of national security, Edmund Dillon, and attorney general, Faris Al Rawi, held a meeting on Tuesday with the United Nations resident coordinator Richard Blewitt and protection officer of More...
St. Maarten PM shares World Bank info with MPs behind closed doors
PHILIPSBURG - Negotiations are still ongoing between the World Bank and the Government of St. Maarten about the administration of the recently-set-up Dutch Recovery Trust Fund. This resulted in Prime Minister (PM) More...
Trinidad and Tobago government explains deportations of Venezuelan migrants
PORT OF SPAIN - After the United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago said it is concerned after authorities announced they had facilitated the return to Venezuela of scores of Venezuelan nationals, including asylum More...
Venezuela vote rivals launch campaigns with gifts, promises of change
CARACAS - Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro kicked off his presidential campaign giving away trash trucks and tractors while challenger Henri Falcon laid out plans to de-politicize state oil company PDVSA and More...
Commissioner Franco introduces ‘Statia 2025’
ORANJESTAD - The second public meeting hosted by Dutch Government Commissioner Mike Franco and Acting Commissioner Mervyn Stegers was a calm and informative affair, attended by a sizeable cross-section of the community More...
Heyliger requests US $50M from recovery fund as airport loan
PHILIPSBURG - Allocate a US $50-million loan from the Hurricane Irma recovery funds to Princess Juliana International Airport to jolt the rebuilding of the terminal building and related facilities to save its hub More...
Underlining alliance, Venezuela’s Maduro visits new Cuban leader
HAVANA - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the More...
UNHCR regret at deportations of Venezuelans from Trinidad and Tobago
GENEVA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, deeply regrets the deportation this past weekend by Trinidad and Tobago of 82 Venezuelan nationals. The 82 include registered asylum-seekers and individuals who had declared More...
Díaz-Canel elected president of Cuba
HAVANA - Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez was elected president of Cuba on Wednesday during a session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP). Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the National Electoral More...
