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US: Colorado confirms first human case of bubonic plague since 2015
By Natalie O’Neill (NEW YORK POST) — A Colorado resident was infected with the plague after a squirrel in the state tested positive for the bubonic plague — the first human case in the Centennial State...
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Saint Lucia to ‘retire’ Common Entrance
By Anicia Antoine (GIS) — Several countries in the Caribbean, including Saint Lucia, have decided to retire the Common Entrance Examination, and implement the enhanced Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment...
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Saint Lucia records increases in gas, diesel, and cylinder prices
(PRESS RELEASE) — The public is hereby notified that in keeping with changes in international oil prices and the government’s application of the modified market pass-through petroleum pricing...
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UAE launches historic first mission to Mars
The Hope probe successfully launched from a spaceport in Japan (BBC) — The United Arab Emirates’ historic first mission to Mars is under way, after a successful lift-off in Japan. The Hope probe...
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Cayman Islands to reopen its borders in September
Cayman Islands (CAYMAN COMPASS) — Deputy Premier and Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell on Friday announced Cayman’s borders will reopen to international travel starting on 1 Sept. The reopening will...
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Jamaica: Low turnout at Jasmine Deen protest
Jasmine Deen (JAMAICA GLEANER) — Fear among residents has been blamed for the low turnout at the scheduled protest for the return of Jasmine Deen, the 22-year-old visually impaired student who went...
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US: Relatives doubt Jamaica-born businessman Rasheed Edwards killed himself
Jamaica-born businessman Rasheed Edwards (JAMAICA GLEANER) — The relatives of Jamaica-born businessman Rasheed Edwards, whose body was found at his Wall Township home in New Jersey with a gunshot wound...
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Saint Lucia bus drivers looking at possibility of increasing passenger numbers
(PRESS RELEASE) — As part of reinforcing health protocols for COVID-19 on public transportation, the Ministry of Health and Wellness recently convened a meeting with bus drivers around the island. The...
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Trinidad: Bars can open untill 10 p.m. from today
Patrons enjoy drinks at Pub House on Ariapita Avenue, Port of Spain, yesterday. — Photo: ISHMAEL SALANDY (TRINIDAD EXPRESS) — From today, bars will be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m. This has been...
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At age 90, Jamaican lawyer Crafton Miller still winning big cases
Masked and ready for more legal action is veteran attorney Crafton Miller at his downtown Kingston offices last week. (Photo: HG Helps) (JAMAICA OBSERVER) — Legal luminary Crafton Stephen Miller is not...
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Canada: 3 killed, more than 20 injured after bus overturns
RCMP work on the scene of a sightseeing bus rollover at the Columbia Icefields near Jasper, Alta., Sunday, July 19, 2020. Multiple people were killed and more than a dozen others were critically...
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Russian bones confirmed to be last tsar Nicholas II and Romanov family
Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia, Empress Alexandra with their children: Maria, Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia and Alexei, circa 1912. (Laski Diffusion/Getty Images) (NY DAILY NEWS) — More than a century...
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Lawyer Roy Den Hollander, who shot federal judge’s family, specialized in...
Roy Den Hollander (Viorel Florescu/for New York Daily News) (NY DAILY NEWS) — The men’s rights maniac who opened fire on New Jersey federal judge’s husband and son had terminal cancer and a long...
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Two in custody in connection with Sarrot double murder
Dexter Felix Jr. (left) and his cousin (St. Lucia News Online) — Saint Lucia investigators continue to intensify their efforts to solve last week’s double slaying of Dexter ‘Dry Bonez’ Felix Jr. and...
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Woman among five held with gun and ammunition in Rodney Bay
(St. Lucia News Online) — A woman is among five young people currently in police custody in connection with the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, according to a police source. The five,...
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6 p.m. July 20, 2020 Saint Lucia weather update
Weather Update 6:00 pm Weather Report Date: 20th July 2020 Forecaster: Emmanuel Descartes Present weather at Hewanorra Airport is partly cloudy. Present weather at GFL Charles Airport is partly cloudy....
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Woman fatally shot in Monchy
Miss Daphne (St. Lucia News Online) — Another female in Saint Lucia has fallen victim to gun violence. The woman was reportedly shot dead near her home around 7 p.m. Monday, July 20 in Monchy, Gros...
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Saint Lucians want death penalty for Anella Wilson’s alleged killer, Ramah...
Wilson By MERRICK ANDREWS, Staff Reporter (St. Lucia News Online) — Saint Lucians believe carrying out the death penalty for murderers is long overdue. Though this outcry is nothing new, it was again...
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Guyana: A fight over a girl by two teens has left one dead and another in jail
(NEWS ROOM GUYANA) — Police are investigating the murder of 18-year-old Shadrech Martin, a miner of Aishalton, South Rupununi, Region Nine who was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old Venezuelan national...
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Cuba opens foreign currency-only shops, ends tax on US dollar
(AP) — Cuba opened shops Monday that accept only foreign currencies and eliminated a special tax on the US dollar, deepening a process of collecting stronger currencies to face the country’s economic...
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