CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Senior U.S. government officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to bring home detained Americans and rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, forcing the...
Pamela Monroe Ellis, Auditor General of Jamaica, has copped the 2021 RG Platinum Award. At the RJRGLEANER Honour Awards gala event, aired a short while ago on TVJ and The Gleaner's Youtube channel, Monroe Ellis was announced the winner...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals after a tractor-trailer rig containing suspected migrants was found today on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio, officials said. A city worker...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Judges temporarily blocked abortion bans today in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women...
The National College for Educational Leadership (NCEL), an agency of the Ministry of Education and Youth, is accepting applications for the next cohort of its Aspiring Principals' Programme (APP), scheduled to begin in September. The APP...
Detectives assigned to the St Elizabeth Police Division have arrested and charged 28-year-old Fylecia Dunkley of a Santa Cruz address in the parish with the offence of embezzlement. Reports are that in June of this year, Dunkley was employed by a...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) combined index advanced on Monday with an advance/decline ratio of 40/41. The JSE Combined Index advanced by 826.80 points or 0.21 per cent to close at 396,711.44 points. The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 1...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Health authorities in St Lucia have increased surveillance for Monkeypox after being alerted that a crewmember on a flight to the island has since tested positive for the virus. However, according to officials,...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City can't let noncitizens vote for mayor and other city officials, a judge ruled Monday, siding with Republicans who challenged the measure as unconstitutional. In January, New York became the first...
People's National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding has moved to address his castigation of the Government at political meetings over the weekend. Golding was critical of the Government on the State of Public Emergency in St Catherine as well...
The Manchester police have identified the man whose body was found at a block factory in Chudleigh district. He is Kenyiata Harris, 50, of New Jersey in the United States and West Green Crescent in St James. Harris' body was discovered...
The National Water Commission (NWC) says the disruption currently being experienced in some St Andrew communities is due to low levels at its Barnettwood Water Facility. Operations at the plant have been suspended to facilitate the rebuilding of...
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Scores of civilians were feared killed or wounded in a Russian missile strike Monday on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine's central city of Kremenchuk, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
A 17-year-old mother was shot and killed last night at the Kings Heights housing complex on Water Street in Denham Town in Kingston. It is reported that Devonise Nelson, otherwise called 'Pinky', a student of North Street in Kingston, was...
Two men have been taken into custody by the police in Manchester in connection with the murder of another. The body of the unidentified man was discovered Sunday morning in Chudleigh district at a popular block factory by residents. The discovery...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's highest judicial officer has resigned, an aide said Monday, a week after the country's Supreme Court justices accused the top-ranking judge of corruption. Justice Tanko Muhammad denies the allegations....
The Ministry of Education and Youth says it remains committed to increasing the number of uniformed groups in schools. This is in keeping with its thrust to fulfil this mission under the Safety and Security in Schools Programme, Portfolio Minister...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands has removed the mandatory requirement for people to wear masks to protect against the spread of COVID-19. According to the new regulations released on Friday, mask wearing is now...
LONDON (AP) — Britain is ramping up a feud with the European Union by pressing on with a plan to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it signed with the bloc. Legislation that rewrites trade rules for Northern Ireland is scheduled to...
The revised Emergency Powers Regulations governing the state of emergency (SOE) in St Catherine has broadened the circumstances under which an individual may be arrested and detained or may be asked to leave their communities because of perceived...