October 30, 2013
Body of missing Jamaican man found in pond in Cayman Islands
Police in the Cayman Islands say the body that was discovered in a pond in George Town early Monday October 28th 2013, is 35-year-old Patrick Leonard Williamson, a Jamaican national. Detectives confirm they are treating the death as suspicious.…
October 30, 2013
Gov’t actively looking into reforming ganja law
Justice Minister Senator Mark Golding has said active consideration is being given to reforming the law relating to ganja in Jamaica to allow its use, but within certain parameters. Those boundaries include possession of marijuana for medical use,…
October 30, 2013
U.N. investigators visited Cuba to discuss N. Korean freighter
A team of United Nations experts was in Havana last week to talk about the Cuban weaponry found aboard a North Korea-bound freighter this summer, showing that Cuban officials have at agreed to discuss the shipment, according to a Japanese media…
October 30, 2013
Public workers get salary increase in St Vincent
Public servants in St.Vincent will benefit from a salary increase of 1.5 per cent which will not be taxed when they are paid this week. The money is half of the three per cent salary increase owed to them since January 2011. Half of the amount was…
October 20, 2013
Jamaicans Branded ‘Serial Sexual Harassers’ – Government Mum As Farm Workers Are Dissed In Canada
There has been a deafening silence from the Government more than one month after a Canadian mayor and several of his councillors disrespected Jamaican farm workers by labelling them serial sexual harassers. Instead of the Portia Simpson Miller…
October 20, 2013
306 pounds of cocaine found concealed in cocoa beans from Dom Republic
The United States Coast Guard says a joint law enforcement team, comprising its members and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, discovered and seized about 306 pounds of cocaine concealed among a shipment of cocoa beans coming from the…
October 20, 2013
Argentine train crashes into Buenos Aires Once station
A commuter train in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has crashed at the end of the line, leaving at least 80 people injured. The train failed to stop as it arrived at Once station, crashing through the buffers and ending up wedged between the…
October 20, 2013
Mexico ‘clown’ gunmen kill ex-drug chief Arellano Felix
The authorities in Mexico have said gunmen dressed as clowns have shot dead a former leading member of a once-powerful and violent drug cartel. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, was killed in a beach resort in Baja California in north-western…
October 20, 2013
Fire in Brazilian port of Santos burns tonnes of raw sugar
A fire in Brazil's largest port has burnt some 180,000 tonnes of raw sugar, damaging six warehouses and pushing international prices to a one-year high. The authorities in the port of Santos said it took six hours to bring the fire under control.…
October 13, 2013
CARICOM Member States urged to move to CCJ
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has called on CARICOM Member States that have not taken the necessary steps to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) their final court of appeal, to do so.…