PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haïti (AFP) - Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said Wednesday. The Caribbean country's cholera outbreak started in 2010 and "an unacceptable number of people have been affected, with...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - A group of 41 men who were being held for crimes including murder, kidnapping and robbery broke out of a jail outside Caracas early Wednesday, authorities said. The men escaped through a "hole in the wall" at the detention centre in Los...
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Test batsman Phillip Hughes died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after being struck on the head by a cricket ball during a domestic first-class match. He was 25. "It is my sad duty to inform you that a short...
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Nov 26, CMC – The Grenada government Wednesday presented an EC$1.15 billion (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) budget to Parliament with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell saying the fiscal “is consistent with our obligations set out” in the agreement reached with the...
Leader of the National Integrity Party Mr Glenroy Blanchette is of the view that the revocation of visa free access by the Canadian government was motivated by economics rather than the security concerns cited. He said that while the Canadian government did express some concerns in...