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As the number of migrants coming to the United States' southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday released the...
The police are reporting the seizure of cocaine in pellets in a female bathroom at the Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, St James on Thursday. No one was arrested in connection with the seizure. The police report that about 3 p.m.,...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Bermuda's premier said Thursday that the government is slowly restoring operations after being hit by a “very sophisticated” cyberattack a week ago. An in-depth forensic audit is underway to...
The police are reporting that investigators assigned to the Cyber Forensic Crime Department are now in possession of the access code for the cell phone of Amoi Leon-Issa, the mother of nine-year-old Gabriel King who was killed in St James. The code...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Friday called for consumers to conserve as the utility company registered its highest-ever electricity generation and demand. In a statement, the company said that it recorded a...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index again lost ground on Friday. The moderate trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 59/35. The JSE Combined Index declined by 7,270.85 points or 2.18 per cent to close at 341,388.96. The JSE...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting that tests have confirmed a dengue-related death, while three other persons are suspected to have died due to the virus. The Ministry says the four cases were among a total of six infections that...
A member of a St Ann family who were convicted for stoning and then chopping a mentally-ill man to death has been freed arising from identification evidence. Dwight Dean, 42, was acquitted of murder on Friday after the Court of Appeal upheld a...
The male student of B.B. Coke High School in St Elizabeth who is accused of knocking a schoolmate unconscious for stepping on his shoes has been taken into custody and is being processed by the police. Parish commander acting Superintendent...
The St Catherine Health Department is paying special attention to early childhood facilities and the surrounding communities, to ensure that the children are given extra protection against the dengue outbreak. Medical Officer of Health for the...
The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction and life sentence of Rushon Hamilton, the ex-cop found guilty in 2012 of murdering 14-y-o schoolgirl, Jhaneel Goulbourne in 2008. The court said the trial judge made several errors in dealing with...
Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz will face the inaugural Women’s Gold Cup qualification without the head coach who took them to the last 16 of the women’s World Cup a month ago. In a release, earlier today, the Jamaica Football Federation, said after a...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims and allowing victims...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down...
NEW YORK (AP) — A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport. Up to 5 inches (...
The St James police say they will not relent until they find the killers of one of their former colleagues, retired Constable Patrick Haye, and three other men. Haye, who retired in January after serving in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF...
The Supreme Court has ordered Amoi Leon-Issa to give police investigators access to her cellular phone by 4 p.m. today as they probe the murder of her son, nine-year-old Gabriel King. In doing so, the court dismissed a claim by Leon-Issa...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A High Court judge has awarded the chief executive officer of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA), Davlin Thomas, more than $TT1 million in damages after ruling that several social media posts...
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics,...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others,...
