Hunger in Haiti reaches famine levels as gangs squeeze life out of …
Oct 2, 2024 · PORT-AU-PRINCE — Nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse as gang violence smothers life in the capital of Port-au-Prince and beyond, according to a new report released Monday.. The number of Haitians facing crisis, emergency and famine levels of hunger increased by 1.2 ...
St. Croix Educational Complex High School suspends classes due …
Oct 2, 2024 · FREDERIKSTED — The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) said that school operations have been suspended at the St. Croix Educational Complex today, Wednesday, October 2, 2024, due to a coordinated teacher sick-out.. Earlier this morning, VIDE officials were alerted to a significant shortage of teachers at the St. Croix Educational Complex High School, as many educators either called ...
RFK Jr.’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke polio vaccine approval
Dec 13, 2024 · WEST PALM BEACH — An adviser and lawyer helping Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vet potential agency officials has filed over a dozen lawsuits challenging the availability of common vaccines — including the polio vaccine.. According to a Friday report from The New York Times, Aaron Siri, an attorney who represented Kennedy during his campaign, has spent much of his ...
Meet the workout group that gets people exercising outdoors, …
Nov 24, 2024 · John McCarthy is primarily known for his investigative reporting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. A series of reports beginning in the 1990's revealed that there was everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling.
Ultimate drug don Ivan James gets 35 years
Dec 9, 2024 · CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Ivan James, 40, Joh Williams, 38, Malachi Benjamin, 28, Ariel Petersen, 28, and Jahkiebo Joseph, 26, all of St. Croix, were sentenced by District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy led by Ivan James from his Estate LaGrange compound in Frederiksted, St. Croix, United States Attorney Delia L. …
A gang leader in Haiti is accused of massacring older people to …
Dec 10, 2024 · PORT-AU-PRINCE — A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son’s death, according to the government and human rights organizations that estimate more than 100 were killed.. Reports on the number of dead in Port-au-Prince can vary wildly in a country where such killings often ...
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras President Xiomara Castro ’s comments earlier this week threatening to stop her country’s cooperation with the U.S. military if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on promised mass…
Cops seek ‘person of interest’ in murder of Angel Casanova
Mar 24, 1998 · CHRISTIANSTED — Police said they are seeking a “person of interest” in the shooting death of 33-year-old Angel Casanova near the Christiansted Cemetery in St. Croix on Tuesday.. Elvis Villar Jr., 26, of Orange Grove, has been identified as a suspect in the murder investigation into Casanova’s death in Peter’s Farm earlier this week, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
Cuba predicts 1% growth in 2025 after dismal year, economy …
Dec 20, 2024 · HAVANA — Cuban Economy Minister Joaquín Alonso Vázquez on Monday forecast the Caribbean island’s economy would grow only 1% in 2025 after a dismal year marked by one of the country’s worst energy crisis in decades.. The minister, speaking to a closed-door session of a parliament commission, did not provide an estimate for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) this year, though recent hints by ...
VIPD hosts 2024 Consent Decree Summit – Virgin Islands Free Press
Dec 12, 2024 · CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The Virgin Islands Police Department hosted a Consent Decree Summit that took place at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas this week.. Some 40 participants attended, including the VIPD’s Management Staff, the appointed Independent Monitoring Team, and attorneys from the United States Department of Justice and local Attorney General’s Office provided an ...