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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, and a hazardous tsunami was possible nearby. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said...
The St James police have charged 30-year-old Duran Adlam of Lilliput in the parish with wounding with intent following an incident in Bamboo Lawn in his community on April 20. Reports from the Barrett Town police are that about 8 p.m., a man was...
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday on mortgage fraud charges in a case that President Donald Trump urged his Justice Department to bring after he vowed retribution on his biggest political enemies....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Thursday requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council focused on the US military actions in recent weeks in the waters off the South American country. Venezuela made...
VM Investments Limited (VMIL) is moving to enforce a Supreme Court judgment handed down in its favour against E-Media Interactive Group Limited and Kintyre Holdings Limited, as it seeks to recover funds from a failed margin loan arrangement. On...
Dujuan 'Whisper' Richards has been added to Jamaica's squad for Friday's World Cup qualifier against Curaçao in Willemstad. Richards, who plies his trade at Chelsea FC in the English Premier League, last played for Jamaica in a 3-2 win over...
The St Mary police are investigating the shooting death of 17-year-old Raheem 'Murder' Smith at a shop in Annotto Bay in the parish on Tuesday. Smith is of a Crooked River address in Annotto Bay. According to a police report, at approximately...
Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Claudette Thompson will officially take over on Monday as Jamaica's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the second woman to hold the top post. She replaces Paula Llewellyn KC, who retired last...
The National Works Agency (NWA) says the $231-million Troy Bridge reconstruction project in Trelawny is now set to be completed in December after the August deadline was missed due to "unforeseen problems". The former Troy Bridge, which...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a defamation lawsuit Drake brought against Universal Music Group, labelling the alleged libellous words as opinion. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas rejected the lawsuit on Thursday in a written...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday confirmed that a request for the temporary installation of radar equipment and associated technical personnel at the Maurice Bishop International Airport was received from the...
The police are reporting that two men who were suspects in Sunday’s deadly gun attack in Commodore, Linstead, St Catherine, in which nine people were shot, five fatally, were shot and killed during separate police operations in St Catherine today...
The Government is set to establish the Institute for Cultural Practitioners, Innovators, Entertainers and Creatives (ICPIEC), envisioned as a centre of innovation and excellence offering culture- and heritage-focused programming. It will also...
PARIS (AP) — A French appeals court handed a stiffer 10-year sentence Thursday to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious, French media reported. Husamettin Dogan, a 44-year-old...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the US military off the coast of Venezuela. “A new front in the war has opened:...
High Court Judge Natalie Hart Hines has recused herself from the lawsuit filed by Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron challenging a directive by Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake that the position of chairman of the Police Officers’...
The police in St Catherine are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in his yard in Kitson Town on Wednesday. He is 55-year-old merchandiser Andrew Nelson of Mary's Field in the area. The police say suicide is suspected. Reports...
Chief Public Health Inspector for Portland, Lorenzo Hume, is urging the public to exercise caution when bottling coconut water, warning that improper sanitation poses serious health risks due to the commodity’s high susceptibility to contamination...
A 15-year-old boy of Bull Bay district in Lucea, Hanover has been charged for breaking into a school and stealing money and a cell phone. The teen, who was already in custody in relation to a different matter, has been charged with house breaking...
A fire at the Gallery Apartment in New Kingston reportedly claimed the life of a 74-year-old man on Thursday morning. Several apartments were damaged by the early morning inferno. Firefighters were called to the apartment located on Oxford Road...
