Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 8:34 PM
Despite being named as an alternate for the women’s 400m hurdles in Jamaica’s squad for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, Sanique Walker will not be able to replace Rushell Clayton who has withdrawn from the competition through injury....
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 7:52 PM
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry joined his father, King Charles III, for tea on Wednesday at the monarch's London home, the first time they've met in well over a year. The two have been distant since Harry and his wife, Meghan, left royal...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 4:31 PM
OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in an act that drew renewed attention to the threat of political violence across the United...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 4:07 PM
Dr Andrew Holness is to be sworn in next week Tuesday to begin his third straight term as prime minister, King's House has informed. The disclosure came after a formal meeting between Holness and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen today,...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 3:29 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labour unions representing millions of educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its immigration crackdown, saying arrests near school campuses are terrorising children and their...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 2:20 PM
The driver of a Toyota Mark X motor car was injured and a passenger killed in a crash in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth early Wednesday morning. The deceased has been identified as 28-year-old Kemar Cranstan. According to the police, about 1:00 a.m.,...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 1:44 PM
A fight involving three men in Jericho district in Linstead, St Catherine this morning has left one dead, one hospitalised, and the other on the run. The police report that about 9:10 a.m., the men became involved in a dispute, which escalated...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 1:10 PM
HAVANA (AP) — A total blackout hit Cuba on Wednesday, the latest in a series of outages blamed on ageing infrastructure and fuel shortages at power plants. It was the second islandwide outage this year, with three other blackouts reported late...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:26 PM
The man who on Tuesday had a strong police contingent in Manchester in a stand-off for more than four hours has been identified as 54-year-old Dave Alfrancis Wilson, otherwise called ‘Brown Man,’ of Caledonia Road in the parish. Wilson was...
PARIS :EU leaders “jokingly call me the president of Europe,” Donald Trump claimed at a recent press conference. As bizarre as that sounds, it does have a slight ring of truth. For seven months, Europe has desperately sought to placate...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 11:31 AM
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says notices have been served on Batteries and Accessories Warehouse Limited in Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland, to address an oil contamination that has impacted Great George Street and surrounding...
WASHINGTON, DC: Elected political leaders often express frustration with monetary policymakers. If only the central bank would lower interest rates, they reckon, businesses and households could borrow more easily for long-term purposes, like...
PROVIDENCE: US President Donald Trump has made no secret of his wish for lower interest rates. He argues that cheaper borrowing would, among other things, save the government billions of dollars in debt-service payments. Who wouldn’t want...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 10:50 AM
Jamaica’s reigning women’s 400m hurdles national champion Rushell Clayton is out of the 2025 World Athletics Championships due to injury. “I can confirm that Ms Rushell Clayton has been withdrawn due to injury,” team manager Ian Forbes said upon...
SEATTLE: Two operating systems, Apple iOS and Google Android, dominate the mobile app ecosystem, and over the last decade, a worldwide consensus has emerged on two issues. First, these platforms have amassed significant, persistent market power...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 10:27 AM
Two St Elizabeth men who were held at sea allegedly attempting to traffic ganja were on Monday each granted bail in the sum of $900,000 when they appeared before the Portland Parish Court. Robin Ebanks, 50, and Richard Lindo, 52, who are both...
NEW YORK: Don’t mistake the photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Beijing’s Victory Day parade for a new world order. Xi is in no position to lead one....
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM
The Portmore police in St Catherine have charged a 34-year-old farmer following the seizure of a loaded gun while on patrol in Naggo Head. Ryan Grant, who lives in the area, is charged with unauthorised possession of a prohibited weapon and...
Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 9:43 AM
Principal of the Morant Bay Primary School in St Thomas, Fay Lindsay, is optimistic that the National Rural School Bus System will help to solve the punctuality challenge facing the student population. “I am hoping that it (the school bus) will...