May 1, 2023
Cuba cancels May Day parade due to fuel shortages
Cuba's communist government has cancelled Monday's traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages. Every year hundreds of thousands of people are bussed in from across the island to fill Havana's Revolution Square on International…
April 28, 2023
Worries over sudden ocean warming spike
The world’s oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming. Some researchers think the jump in…
April 20, 2023
Jamaica Tourism Sector to conduct study on the impacts of 20,000 hotel rooms -Coming
Edmund Bartlett, the Government's point man on the tourism sector, has determined that much more needs to be known about the possible impact of the approximately 20,000 new hotel rooms which are to be built in Jamaica over the next five to 10……
April 14, 2023
Multi million dollar plan outlined to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera in Haiti
The United nations and its partners are to launch an appeal for US$720 million to support more than three million people in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, where gangs, hunger, and cholera have plunged nearly half the…
April 11, 2023
Supermarket owners want licensed firearms after colleague shot and killed
President of the Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT), Rajiv Diptee on Monday called on the police to provide business owners with a gun license after gunmen shot and killed a 49-year-old supermarket owner over the weekend. Diptee,…
April 7, 2023
Trinidadian police officer guilty of raping his nine-year-old daughter
A High Court judge will on May 3 sentence a police officer who pleaded guilty to a series of charges including having sexual intercourse with his nine-year-old daughter that he also video recorded nearly 13 years ago. Justice Hayden St Clair Douglas…
April 3, 2023
Ziggy Marley says luxury villa discriminated against him because he’s Jamaican
Eight-time Grammy Award winner Ziggy Marley, son of the late reggae legend Bob Marley, is complaining that Sea Salt Villa, a posh property based in St Ann, has discriminated against him, merely because he is “Jamaican”. The villa has denied the…
March 22, 2023
Weed Plea
Still upset over the decision to allow the importation of ganja from Canada, a farmer in St Mary is bashing the Government for what he claims is too much bureaucracy in the sector. "We don't need any licence to plant the weed," herbalist Rasta…
March 21, 2023
Security guard beaten in attempted robbery at Mandeville ATM
A security guard was beaten by gunmen during an attempted robbery at a National Commercial Bank (NCB) automated teller machine (ATM) at Bank House Mall in Mandeville on Tuesday morning. A police source confirmed that the incident happened at about…
March 20, 2023
Farmers crack under pressure as eggs price rises
President of the Jamaica Egg Farmers Association Mark Campbell claims that the spike in the cost of egg production has already resulted in sending up the price of the product in some international markets. "Look at what happened in the United States…