Venezuela, Haiti ranked most corrupt nations in the Americas
World December 19, 2015 | 12:38 pm
New York.– News Americas Now compiled a list of the most corrupt countries in the Americas, both the Caribbean and Latin America, based on the public perception of corruption among public and pri[...]
Philippines’ Supreme Court bans development of genetically engineered products
World December 12, 2015 | 8:57 am
Manila.– The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ordered a permanent ban on field trials of genetically engineered (GE) eggplant and a temporary halt on approving applications for the "cont[...]
ECLAC side event at COP21 to advocate Caribbean debt relief
World December 9, 2015 | 10:42 am
Santiago, Chile.- The possibilities forintegrating the twin imperatives of pursuing climate resilience and debtreduction with a proposal for debt for climate adaptation swaps, will beconsidered at [...]
Former Dominican leader: Venezuela electoral system ´solid´
World December 7, 2015 | 9:08 am
Caracas.- A formerDominican Republic president who heads the Electoral Mission of the union of SouthAmerican countries (UNASUR) sent to Venezuela for Sunday's elections said that country'selectoral[...]
Philippines launches world’s first national human rights investigation into 50 big polluters
World December 5, 2015 | 10:49 am
Paris.– The Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced that it will launch an investigation on December 10 (International Human rights Day), which could hold fossil fuel companies res[...]
In 3 steps, here is what Paris can do, and what we need to do afterwards
World November 28, 2015 | 12:33 pm
Paris.– The last few weeks have seen the best and the worst in terms of climate change. Victories which pundits told us for years were “impossible” have been coming at a breathtaking pace. Co[...]
SDHEPA Project campaign: Hospital for Haiti
World November 23, 2015 | 12:22 pm
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Syrians detained in St. Maarten had stopped in Dominican Republic: AP
World November 21, 2015 | 12:25 pm
Philipsburg, St. Maarten.– The three Syrians detained in St. Maarten for traveling with fake Greek passports had traveled from Europe and stopped in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Haiti befor[...]
Greenpeace exposes recently burnt Indonesian forest replaced with palm oil
World November 5, 2015 | 12:28 pm
Jakarta.- New photosand video released today by Greenpeace Southeast Asia show freshly planted palmoil saplings on deforested peatland where several fires have recently brokenout at the edges of an[...]
US agents detain Dominican, Haitian, Cuban nationals
World October 31, 2015 | 10:43 am
New York.– The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said several Caribbean nationals were among 46 individuals arrested following a major immigration sweep in New Jersey[...]
Greenpeace calls on Indonesia’s plantation industry to adopt Fire Action Plan
World October 29, 2015 | 9:45 am
Jakarta, 29 October2015 - Greenpeace has launched a challenge to the plantation industry torespond to the devastating scale of the forest fires crisis, set out in a newGreenpeace Southeast Asia ana[...]
Super-storm Patricia weakens as it drenches Mexico
World October 24, 2015 | 11:24 am
Mexico DF.– The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Patricia has now degraded to tropical depression status over northern Mexico. As expected, once it hit landfall the super-storm rapid[...]
Greenpeace applauds Apple’s renewable energy commitment in China, urges competitors to follow
World October 22, 2015 | 9:59 am
Beijing.- In response to Apple’s announcement that it will work with its partners in China to push to use renewable energy for the manufacturing of Apple products, Greenpeace USA Senior IT Sector[...]
Chemical in sunscreen attacks coral reefs
World October 20, 2015 | 9:23 am
Santo Domingo /PRNewswire/.-- A new study published today in a toxicology journal has found that achemical widely used in personal care products such as sunscreen, poses anecological threat to cora[...]
Greenpeace activists protest South Korea’s plan to build world’s largest nuclear power plant
World October 13, 2015 | 10:03 am
Seoul.- Greenpeace activists today entered therestricted zone of the Kori nuclear power plant near Busan, South Korea’ssecond largest city, to protest the country’s expansion of nuclear and it[...]
Greenpeace global campaign: Change tuna industry for good…today
World October 9, 2015 | 10:49 am
"As the appetite forcheap fish worldwide grows, so does the demand for men who are paid little ornothing to catch it. Thailand's $7 billion annual seafood export industry isbuilt on the backs [...]
Dominican man pleads guilty to illegally re-entering U.S.
World October 3, 2015 | 12:48 pm
AKWESASNE -- A Dominican man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Friday to illegally re-entering the United States following removal, according to Syracuse-b[...]
Taiwan faces EU sanction on fisheries
World October 1, 2015 | 9:35 am
Taipei, 1 October 2015 - Three weeks after GreenpeaceRainbow Warrior busted Taiwanese tuna longliner Shuen De Ching No.888 (???888?)fishing illegally in the Pacific, the European Commission has yel[...]
Fossil fuel companies face landmark national human rights complaint on climate change
World September 22, 2015 | 11:47 am
Manila.- Typhoonsurvivors and civil society groups in the Philippines today delivered acomplaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) callingfor an investigation into the resp[...]
Tropical Storm Ida poses no threat to land
World September 19, 2015 | 11:08 am
Miami.– Tropical Storm Ida formed Friday night in the central Atlantic Ocean, over 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast, Ida is expect[...]
