Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):Senate Republicans are facing renewed pressure to pass legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller, with a handful of GOP senators urging their leadership to hold a vote now that President Donald Trump has pushed out...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
ESCUINAPA (AP):Migrants in a caravan of Central Americans scrambled to reach the US border, catching rides on buses and trucks for hundreds of miles in the last leg of their journey Wednesday as the first sizable groups began arriving in the border...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
German automaker Volkswagen will convert three factories in Germany to manufacture electric cars, ramping up production of zero-local emission cars ahead of tougher European emissions standards, the company said Wednesday.Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
There is unwavering optimism among business leaders for further reduction in Jamaica's unemployment rate,which has dropped to an all-time low of 8.4 per cent.The out-turn, captured in the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) July 2018 Labour...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has secured a deal with a company that will purchase at least 30,000 boxes of coffee beans at a reasonable price from coffee farmers."One company stopped buying coffee last week,...
Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2018 | 12:00 AM
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, (CMC):West Indies have suffered a major setback ahead of the two-Test tour of Bangladesh starting next Wednesday in Chittagong, after talismanic captain Jason Holder was ruled out with a shoulder injury.The 27-year-old has a...
A year and a half after its establishment, the Caribbean Maritime Merchant Marine Cadet Corps (CMMC), the newest uniform group in high schools in Jamaica and an operational arm of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), is already showing signs of...
Immunity from civil liability and the use of false names by witnesses are among a raft of measures that have been proposed by the Ministry of National Security to strengthen Jamaica's anti-gang legislation.Further, the national security ministry...
I am not convinced that the allocated $1-billion enhancement work programme recently announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holiness is actually a gift to all constituencies. With diminished funding distributed to all parish councils island- wide over...
1. It was quite an embarrassing scene when father and son met up at the pharmacy, shopping for condoms. The son is a single man, but daddy is married to his mom, and he is a man of the cloth, too.2. Some people are expecting drama over that once-...
GAZA CITY (AP):Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Monday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in what appeared to be the most intense exchange of fire since a 2014 war....
In a time when various communities are under zones of special operations or state of emergency, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS), through its Electronic Labour Exchange team - a part of the Ministry's Labour Market Information...
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MIAMI (AP):Jimmy Butler is in Philadelphia, and upon his arrival, he immediately began talking about winning a championship.'The Process' has a whole new meaning.Butler, a four-time All-Star forward, is now officially a member of the 76ers, after...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has been appointed to the board of sitting ministers and appointed public officials of the newly formed African Tourism Board Association. The organisation, which is part of the International Coalition of Tourism...
Dyson is taking another step towards making an electric vehicle. The British vacuum-cleaner company recently announced that it will build an automotive factory in Singapore, where it will assemble its first electric car.The company, which first...
LONDON (AP):Tottenham beat Crystal Palace 1-0 for its latest narrow victory in the English Premier League and moved tied for points with second-place Chelsea and Liverpool, yesterday.A 66th-minute goal by 20-year-old centre back Juan Foyth was...
Jamaica's Under-20 footballers registered their biggest win at the 2018 CONCACAF Championships in Florida yesterday but it was not enough to keep them in the competition.The young Reggae Boyz ended the championships unbeaten in Group B but finished...
Lady Gaga has called for more to be done in supporting artistes with mental-health conditions.The 32-year-old singer, opened up about her own mental health crisis, as she accepted a Patron Award at the Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of...
MILAN (AP):Cristiano Ronaldo put a positive spin on his team's first loss of the season. The Juventus forward, who has been playing and scoring regularly despite facing a rape allegation in the United States, gave his team the lead but they still...
