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A St Catherine man who allegedly physically assaulted a councillor in the St Catherine Municipal Corporation was remanded for psychiatric evaluation on Wednesday. The accused, Kemar Edwards, is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm. When he...
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman sued the hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs on Wednesday, claiming he and two other men raped her 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17. The woman, whose name wasn't disclosed...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release. Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year...
Delroy Rodney, the 47-year-old taxi operator of Belmont, Westmoreland, who is accused of causing death by dangerous driving, was further remanded until December 12, when he appeared in the Westmoreland Parish Court on Wednesday. Senior...
Motorists will pay less for gas and diesel when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $3.06 to sell for $168.29 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $3.06 to sell for $...
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday received a donation of medical equipment valued at US $500,000 from the Chinese Government. The equipment will be distributed to health facilities across the island, with the majority of it going to...
LAS VEGAS (AP) —Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday after officers responded to an active shooter and reports of multiple victims at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Las Vegas sheriff later said there was no further threat...
Water Square in Falmouth will be without a fountain and the promised statue of sprint icon Usain Bolt for another Christmas. Mayor Collen Gager announced in April that officers from the Jamaica Defence Force would be working to construct a...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Wednesday said that it has initiated a search and rescue operation to locate a missing helicopter carrying three crew members and four passengers. In a brief statement, the GDF said...
LONDON (AP) — Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Wednesday that his government was too slow to grasp the extent of the COVID-19 crisis, but skirted questions about whether his indecisiveness...
Popular jerk restaurant 'Jungle Fiah' in St Catherine can no longer use that name to advertise its business as a Supreme Court order has barred its operator or agents from using any names that are visually or aurally similar to 'Jungle...
The police in Westmoreland have charged two 17-year-old cousins for allegedly pulling a gun on an elderly woman. They are charged with assault at common law and possession of a prohibited weapon. Their court date is being finalised. The police...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A stampede at a government-organised job fair involving hundreds of young people in Zimbabwe desperate for work left some limping and others screaming in pain after being stomped on or beaten by security...
Jean-Ann Panton, the lone accused in the multibillion-dollar fraud investigation at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), was today further remanded until May 27 next year. The former SSL client relationship manager is facing a 22-count indictment...
The police in Portmore, St Catherine have charged both a racehorse exercise rider who disarmed a licensed firearm holder and shot him, after the businessman used his weapon to assault the rider during an argument while at the Caymanas racetrack on...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Guyana's President Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from a potential incursion by Venezuela, which has ordered its state-...
The police have laid several gun-related charges against a man who was listed as a person of interest in relation to a shooting on Rodney Street in Kingston. Charged with shooting with intent, possession of a prohibited weapon, and unauthorized...
A man was shot dead and his girlfriend injured in a gun attack on Tuesday night in Seaview Heights, Priory, St Ann. The deceased has been identified as 41-year-old security guard Karan Llewellyn, otherwise called 'Rasta', of Jack's...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean continues to be rattled by earthquakes in recent days, with the latest occurring on Wednesday with a 4.4 magnitude tremor affecting Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and St Lucia. The...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage,...
The Falmouth Public General Hospital in Trelawny is set to receive a brand-new industrial washing machine that will help to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of doing laundry at the facility. The much-needed appliance costs almost $22 million...
Twenty-seven farmers who were insured under the GK Insurance Weather Protect Scheme and impacted by the recent heavy rains are set to receive payouts. Minister of Agriculture, Floyd Green, made the disclosure during a statement to the House of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will take the border issue with Venezuela to the United Nations on Wednesday after it described as “unsettling developments” in relation to the “unlawful claim”...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda signed a treaty on Tuesday that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that had been blocked by United Kingdom courts. British Home...
