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Trump moves to block visas for pregnant women on “birth tourism”
WASHINGTON, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2020 (The New York Times)-- The State Department on Thursday gave visa officers more power to block pregnant women from...
Cuba answers the call for doctors
World Health Organization
“Havana’s Latin American Medical School takes passionate young people from developing countries and sends them home as doctors. It’s all about driving...
Antigua’s Agriculture Minister fired over bad decisions and toxic relationships
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tues. Jan. 21, 2020 (Caribbean360)-- Prime Minister Gaston Browne has kicked Agriculture Minister Dean Jonas from his Cabinet but has given...
New China virus: Fourth person dies as human-to-human transfer confirmed
CHINA, Mon. Jan. 20, 2020 (BBC)-- A fourth person in China has died from a new virus that has spread rapidly across the country,...
11-year-old boy kills teacher, wounds 6 others in Mexico before shooting himself, officials say
at 3:32 p.m. CST MEXICO CITY, Fri. Jan. 10, 2020 (The Washington Post)-- An 11-year-old boy told his friends “Today’s the day,” then opened...
US puts even more restrictions on air travel to Cuba – charter flights to nine Cuban airports banned
WASHINGTON, United States, Mon. Jan. 13, 2020 (Caribbean360)-- Less than three months after suspending commercial flights to airports in Cuba outside Havana, the United...
Rand Paul: Trump ‘got bad advice’ on killing of Soleimani
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 01/06/20 08:54 PM EST 2,658 CNN (thehill.com)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) talks with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iranian general...
U. S. slavery began in Florida, not Virginia
Historian: anniversary “robbing black history”
( - excerpted from an article by Nicquel Terry Ellis in the USA TODAY issue of Thursday, January 2, 2020)
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Bolivar in Haiti
December 24, 2019-- Colombia and Haiti have both been ignited by protests, as part of what looks like a global uprising against austerity, corruption, and unaccountable...
What an Audit of the British Empire’s Deadly Toll in Southern Africa Would Reveal
18 Dec 2019-- The colonial powers have never been called to account for the human cost of their centuries of global rampage.
“It’s high time...
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Non-school day tomorrow, February 20, 2020
Ministry of Education declares non-school day tomorrow, February 20, 2020 for government and government-aided schools
Missing Robert Nunez found dead
This morning, the body of Robert Nunez, 24, was found near Mile 74 on the George Price highway. His mother reported him missing after...
Construction workers fell from scaffold
There was an accident a short while ago on Queen Street in Belize City. Reports at that two construction workers fell from a scaffold...