International

Have no fear: St Kitts urges BVI to embrace expats

October 24, 2016 in International

[caption id="attachment_14851" align="alignleft" width="300"] Prime Minister Timothy Harris addressing a gathering in the BVI[/caption] During a visit to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) on the weekend, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis Dr Timothy Harris decried the treatment being meted out to some Caribbean nationals...

Venezuela Congress declares President Maduro has staged coup

October 24, 2016 in International

[caption id="attachment_14829" align="alignleft" width="300"] CARACAS, Venezuela — Pro-government supporters push on the entrance gate of the National Assembly yesterday. Government supporters interrupted a special congressional session where lawmakers were discussing bringing legal charges against President Nicolas Maduro[/caption] CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s Congress yesterday declared that...

As son was dying in hot car, US man was ‘sexting’ teen

October 24, 2016 in International

[caption id="attachment_14826" align="alignleft" width="300"] In this October 3, 2016 file photo, Justin Ross Harris, left, listens to jury selection during his murder trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia.[/caption] BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP) — A Georgia man swapped sexual text messages with a teenage girl...

What voter fraud?

October 21, 2016 in International

WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) — When Congress denied Andrew Jackson the White House even though he’d won more votes than any other candidate, he blamed it on “barefaced corruption”. When Rutherford B Hayes won the presidency five decades later, supporters of his opponent, Samuel Tilden, offered...