The Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Wednes­day has, for the 33rd con­sec­u­tive year, adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the decades-long Unit­ed States em­bar­go against Cu­ba.

The Ja­maican gov­ern­ment on Wednes­day con­firmed that four peo­ple had been killed af­ter Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a then Cat­e­go­ry 5 hur­ri­cane, tore through the is­land on Tues­day with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 180 miles per hour (mph).

Su­dan’s para­mil­i­tary forces killed hun­dreds of peo­ple at a hos­pi­tal, in­clud­ing pa­tients, af­ter they seized the provin­cial cap­i­tal of North Dar­fur over the week­end, ac­cord­ing to the U.N., dis­placed res­i­dents and aid work­ers, who de­scribed har­row­ing de­tails of atroc­i­ties.

Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says there has been a no­tice­able re­duc­tion in school vi­o­lence since po­lice of­fi­cers were de­ployed to high-risk schools al­most two months ago.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment on Wednes­day warned cit­i­zens against drop­ping their guard as a weak­ened Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa moves to­wards the arch­i­pel­ago.

The death toll in a mas­sive po­lice raid on a no­to­ri­ous drug gang in Rio de Janeiro rose Wednes­day to 119 killed, in­clud­ing four po­lice­men, Brazil­ian po­lice said.

Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa was grind­ing across Cu­ba on Wednes­day, weak­en­ing to a Cat­e­go­ry 2 storm, af­ter pum­mel­ing Ja­maica as one of the strongest At­lantic hur­ri­canes on record, the U.S. Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre said.

The may­or of a south­ern Hait­ian coastal town told The As­so­ci­at­ed Press that 25 peo­ple died af­ter a riv­er burst its banks and flood­ed near­by homes.

Ja­maica is be­gin­ning the task of clean­ing up on Wednes­day af­ter the cat­e­go­ry 5 hur­ri­cane Melis­sa left sev­er­al paths of dam­age in its wake af­ter slow­ing mov­ing through the Caribbean is­land with winds in ex­cess of 180 miles per hour (MPH) on Tues­day.

Venezuela’s Na­tion­al As­sem­bly has de­clared Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar “per­sona non gra­ta,” as it con­tin­ues to ac­cuse her Gov­ern­ment of sup­port­ing Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic. How­ev­er, Per­sad-Bisses­sar has again dis­missed Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro’s com­ments as mean­ing­less.

A day af­ter Venezuela sus­pend­ed gas agree­ments with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment and hours be­fore it de­clared Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar per­sona non gra­ta, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day re­ceived a cour­tesy call from Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T Ál­varo En­rique Sánchez Cordero.

So­ca icon Machel Mon­tano is cred­it­ing his en­dur­ing suc­cess in the in­dus­try to con­stant­ly col­lab­o­rat­ing with young tal­ent who keep his mu­sic vi­brant and rel­e­vant.