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Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai.
August 19, 2026

Country agrees to accept 1,200 US deportees

MONROVIA (AP): Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said yesterday, in one of the largest such arrangements…
Crows feasting on the remains of cattle left by thieves after slaughtering the animals in the bushes.
August 19, 2026 by Ruddy Mathison

Butchered in the bushes - Cattle farmers tremble over thieves’ midnight meat runs

Cattle farmers in Colbeck, St Catherine, are living in fear as thieves repeatedly enter the community under the cover of darkness, steal their animals and slaughter them in nearby bushes in what the…
Dr Wayne Henry, director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
August 19, 2026

PIOJ cuts recovery timeline as economy contracts 2.9 per cent in June quarter

Jamaica’s economy contracted 2.9 per cent in the April to June quarter, but the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has shortened its projected recovery timeline to two years, from three. “Given the…
Jerry Reid (left) accepts the Governor General Award from His Excellency Sir Patrick Allen (centre). Looking on is former St James Custos Ewen Corrodus.
August 19, 2026 by Adrian Frater

Western Jamaica mourns sports icon Jerry Reid

Western Bureau: Governor General awardee Jeremiah ‘Jerry’ Reid, one of western Jamaica’s most revered sporting figures, died on Sunday night at Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay following a…
Spectators watch as Madonna performs during halftime of the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina on July 19.
August 20, 2026

Madonna tops 2026 MTV VMA nominations

NEW YORK (AP): Madonna leads the 2026 MTV Video Music Award nominations, the network announced Tuesday. The pop superstar has been nominated in every decade of her musical career. She has 19…
Stafford Burrowes co-founder of Dolphin Cove Ltd
August 20, 2026 by Luke Douglas

Dolphin Cove seats new board members, as buyer takes control

Dolphin Cove Limited shareholders on Monday approved four new directors nominated by Global Attractions Limited, the Saint Lucia-based entity that agreed in July to acquire a 79.99 per cent stake in…
A youth plays near the machine where the sugar cane is weighed in the Lima batey, or neighborhood, in La Romana, where Central Romana Corporation, Ltd operates its sugar operations in Dominican Republic, November 17, 2021.
August 19, 2026

Watchdog calls for US import ban over forced labour in DR sugar cane fields

SAN JUAN (AP): A report released yesterday by a human-rights group found that forced labour persists on massive sugar cane plantations across the Dominican Republic, which exports sugar and other…
Guyana President Irfaan Ali at the Charity Waterfront following the ‘MV Barima’ tragedy.
August 19, 2026

Gov’t shortlisting firms for ‘MV Barima’ salvage

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has begun shortlisting companies to salvage the sunken MV Barima, nearly a month after the ferry disaster claimed at least 73 lives and left more than 30 people…
Vehicles that were set on fire by armed gangs sit in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 12.
August 19, 2026

Opposition wants election security

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Haitian politician and lawyer André Michel has called for “a minimum level of security” to be restored before elections are held in the French-speaking Caribbean Community…