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Türk Updates Human Rights Council: "We Need The Strongest Possible Defence Of International Law And Human Rights"
Scoop
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk 59th session of the Human Rights Council Global Update Geneva, Monday 16 June 2025 Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, As we meet, conflicts are spiraling. The...
Agric Minister Takes Lead On Saving Sagging Sugar Fortunes
Channel 7 Belize
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Between fusarium and an extended rainy season, It's been a rough year for sugar, and insiders say the industry is teetering on the edge of a major downturn, the likes of which have not been seen in more than a decade. Tonight, the story is that...
PM Gonsalves says OECS might have to consider exiting CSME
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has assumed the chairmanship of the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), highlighting a number of complaints about the larger Caribbean...
New mental health facility will be located in St. John’s
The Daily Herald
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VSA Minister Richinel Brug (sixth left) with the delegation at the site. ~ Brug and delegation visit site ~ ST. JOHN’S--The new mental health facility for St Marten will be located in St John’s at a property already owned by Mental Health...
South African National Found Dead in Corozal
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 17, 2025
After a neighbor grew concerned over not seeing seventy-five-year-old Marvin Hartin for several days, a wellness check led police to a tragic scene—Hartin’s decomposing body was found inside his home in Consuelo Village, Corozal District. While...
Our Ocean Conference concludes, Palau pledges to protect reefs, reiterates stance on deep-sea mining
Island Times
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June 17, 2025
The third United Nations Ocean Conference ended on Friday in Nice, France, after five days of high-level discussions and negotiations. Key outcomes of the meeting included renewed support for the High Seas Treaty and international calls for a...
Panama and Canada lead a Push for Less Shipping Noise on the Ocean
Newsroom Panama
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June 17, 2025
A coalition for a quiet ocean, launched at the third United Nations Ocean Conference this week, aims to curb noise pollution caused by the global shipping industry to protect marine life. The declaration, which is co-led by Canada and Panama, was...
Viking’s Panama Canal Passage Is A Luxury Cruise Through History
Forbes
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Viking Mars getting ready to enter the first lock of the Panama Canal Lois Alter Mark One of the best things about travel, besides getting to visit new places and experiencing different cultures, is introducing other people to your favorite finds....
What Was Achieved at the UN Ocean Conference in France?
Earth.Org
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June 16, 2025
From pledges to establish Marine Protected Areas to calls for a Global Plastic Treaty and to end deep-sea mining, Earth.Org recaps the key achievements at last week’s UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France. — Some 15,000 people, including...
U.S. Lawmakers Ponder A Remittance Tax
Forbes
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A woman counts money outside a U.S. remittance collection agency in San Isidro, 70 km northeast of ... More San Salvador, on June 10, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS / AFP) (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty...
Oklahoma aims to protect livestock from possible screwworm outbreak
Public News Service
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By Seth Millstein for Sentient. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Oklahoma News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration On May 11, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the U.S. is suspending...
Major New Bridge For Punta Gorda Town, Colonial Namesake Replaced By Iron Mike
Channel 7 Belize
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In 2024, work began on the Joe Taylor Bridge - a critical piece of infrastructure located at the northern entrance of Punta Gorda town. But, it's Joe no more - that old colonialist namesake has been replaced by the recently deceased area rep Mike...
5 Dividend Kings Are Delivering Massive Total Returns of Up to 34% This Year
24/7 Wall St.
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June 13, 2025
Investing ptasha / iStock via Getty Images Investors love dividend stocks because they provide dependable passive income streams and an excellent opportunity for solid total return. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends, and...
Vet School Bound: Two UAM Students further their education with acceptance to veterinary school
Magnolia Reporter - Arkansas
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MONTICELLO — Two Pre-Vet students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello are headed to one of the top veterinary schools in the region. Lifetime friends Jayden Grider and Ruthann Corker have both been accepted into the Louisiana State...
Through Zuri’s eyes
Psyche
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June 11, 2025
I could not stop thinking about her – the female gorilla that changed my life. It happened more than two decades ago. In the summer between my second and third year as an undergraduate primatology student at the University of Calgary in Canada, I...
WA grandmother and world-record holder still skydives at 75. She took us along
Yakima Herald-Republic - Washington State
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Jessie Farrington was all smiles as the small plane began to climb Tuesday afternoon. Through the open door the wind whipped her hair as a patchwork of forests, lakes and mountains unfolded below. When the plane reached about 13,000 feet she...
Fonso need help kwik, faas, an hori … from a Joe Bradley type
Amandala
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June 8, 2025
by Colin Hyde In a story too long to explain, the UDP’s show on Wave television is off air; so, for some time now, anyone who wants to know how the party feels about the pressing issues was limited to the Guardian Bz, which is published weekly,...
Warren Friends Accepted to LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
Saline River News - Arkansas
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June 12, 2025
Article submitted MONTICELLO, Ark. — Two Pre-Vet students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello are headed to one of the top veterinary schools in the region. Lifetime friends Jayden Grider and Ruthann Corker have both been accepted into...
General Hospital recap (June 13, 2025): Why did Maxie bring Brook Lynn and Lulu together?
Sportskeeda
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June 14, 2025
The General Hospital episode that aired on Friday, June 13, 2025, featured heated confrontations, broken truces, and legal threats. Maxie tried to get Brook Lynn and Lulu in the same room to talk things out, but their tension boiled over. Dante...
Caricom confronts tariff turbulence
Jamaica Observer
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June 11, 2025
BARNETT...time is too short, and resources are too scarce for us to continue to work in silos…. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC — Trade and economic development ministers from the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) began a two-day meeting here on...