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Dozens dead, injured in Haiti’s capital in gang clashes
JAMAICA OBSERVER
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighbourhood of Haiti’s capital, the latest eruption of bloodshed in a wave of increasing violence sweeping the country, local officials said Tuesday.
Residents block highway in Trinidad over police killings
TRINIDAD EXPRESS
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago - Beetham residents formed a human barricade and then littered the highway with debris yesterday morning, protesting the deaths of three residents in a police related shooting on Saturday.
Family of four found dead in Barbados house explosion
BARBADOS TODAY
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said news of the death of a family of four yesterday morning “really hurt my heart”.
PAHO warns against increasing cases of syphilis
CMC
WASHINGTON, DC, United States — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries and health professionals, including those in the Caribbean, to step up the fight against syphilis and congenital syphilis which, though preventable and curable, affect thousands of people each year.
Trinidad mom chopped to death trying to save daughter
TRINIDAD GUARDIAN
SANGRE GRANDE, T&T - A Sangre Grande mother who attempted to save her daughter was chopped to death inside her home on Monday night.
Puerto Rico police uncover island’s biggest pot greenhouse
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico police said they raided the island’s largest hydroponic marijuana greenhouse on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 plants being grown in a former addiction treatment center.
Monkeypox arrives in St Lucia via flight crew
CARIBBEAN NEWS GLOBAL
CASTRIES, St Lucia– Health authorities in St. Lucia have increased surveillance for monkeypox after being alerted that a crew member on a flight to the island has tested positive for the viral disease.
Barbados PM tests positive for COVID
BARBADOS NATION
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19. It is a mild case and she has indicated that she is doing well, said a statement released to the media.
Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president
REUTERS
BOGOTA, Columbia – Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency yesterday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history.
Barbados appoints Constitutional Reform Commission
CMC
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Attorney General Dale Marshall says the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC), whose members were sworn into office on Monday, will begin its work on Friday.
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