BRIDGETOWN, Jan 24 (NNN-CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW) — The United States of America congratulated Barbados for holding its first general elections on Jan 19 since becoming a republic last year. In an official statement, the U.S. Embassy in Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the OECS recognized the people of Barbados for “upholding the democratic…

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Jan 24 (NNN-CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW) — Former Haitian senator John Joel Joseph, together with his wife and two children, are set to attend court proceedings next month after their arrest last weekend in Jamaica over allegations of being involved with the Haitian president’s killing. The Kingston and St…

HAVANA, Jan 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The first clinical studies of the application of Cuba’s first nasal vaccine candidate, named Mambisa, to patients convalescing from Covid-19 and as a booster are ongoing. The drug was created by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) and demonstrates safety and immunogenicity…

TIJUANA (Mexico), Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A journalist was killed in Tijuana Sunday, the local prosecutor said, the second media worker murdered in less than a week in the Mexican city on the US border. Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was “attacked with a firearm while she was in a vehicle”, said…

LIMA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, left covered in oil after 6,000 barrels of crude spilled off Peru’s coast due to waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. More than 40 birds, including Humboldt penguins —…

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Waving signs denouncing President Joe Biden and calling for “freedom,” several thousand people demonstrated in Washington Sunday against what some described as the “tyranny” of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the United States. Speaker after speaker — including notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who compared…