- Weekly Round-up: UK deportation row… 3-day extension of school year … Cop chopped 12:01 am
- Reduction in crime in St Catherine North — security minister 4:06 pm
- Safety fears force CONCACAF to cancel women's U17 event 3:26 pm
- Hope says preparation already underway for Sri Lanka series 3:13 pm
- Gov't to develop bunkering industry 2:39 pm
- IMF unveils new corruption policy for member states 2:11 pm
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Weekly Round-up: UK deportation row… 3-day extension of school year … Cop chopped 9:45 am
KINGSTON, Jamaica — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday apologised for the anxiety caused to Caribbean leaders after her Government threatened to deport some of the hundreds of thousands of people who emigrated to Britain from the region in the 1950s and 1960s. Read More
Reduction in crime in St Catherine North — security minister 4:11 pm
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, says there has been a reduction in crime in the St Catherine North Division, since the declaration of the state of public emergency in March.He was speaking in interview with JIS News, following a tour of...... Read More
Safety fears force CONCACAF to cancel women's U17 event 3:30 pm
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — North American football governing body CONCACAF cancelled the remainder of its Women's Under-17 Championship being staged in Nicaragua over safety concerns, the US-based organisation announced Sunday.The Confederation of North, Central America and...... Read More
Hope says preparation already underway for Sri Lanka series 3:13 pm
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Elegant stroke-maker Shai Hope says West Indies have already trained their sights on the Sri Lanka Test series, as they target success in the three-Test rubber in June.The 24-year-old has been among several Windies cricketers who have been preparing...... Read More
Gov't to develop bunkering industry
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Minister of Transport and Mining, Robert Montague says the government is to aggressively pursue the development of Jamaica's bunkering industry. This, he said, will be done through the facilitation of investment and ensuring that the necessary... Read More
IMF unveils new corruption policy for member states
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The International Monetary Fund will systematically address corruption and its impact on economic growth with all its member countries under new guidelines launched on Sunday.The stricter new policy also aims to tackle how rich countries... Read More
Canada to host the world's female foreign ministers
TORONTO, Canada (AFP) — Canada will host the world's small but growing band of female foreign ministers for talks ahead of this year's UN General Assembly, Canada's Chrystia Freeland announced Sunday.Freeland opened a meeting in Toronto of G7 foreign ministers with a session,... Read More
Gov't making every effort in ensuring that Cornwall Regional Hospital is fully restored — Chang
ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang says the Government is making every effort in ensuring that the 400 bed, Cornwall Regional Hospital is fully rehabilitated and restored.He said when completed, the facility which is located in St James,... Read More
T&T deports Venezuelan nationals deported, concerned over asylum seekers
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — At least 82 Venezuelan nationals were deported to their homeland on Saturday amid concerns that among them were people seeking asylum in Trinidad and Tobago.The Ministry of National Security in a statement issued late Saturday night said that 82... Read More
JISCO looking for partners in industrial park, SEZ
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Chinese company, Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Company Limited (JISCO) is looking at possible joint venture Jamaican partners for Chinese companies that will be investing in the Industrial Park and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Nain, St Elizabeth. Read More
Thousands of Zimbabwe nurses call off strike
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Thousands of Zimbabwe nurses who were sacked after they went on strike for better wages have been told to return to work by their union, in a bid to allow fresh negotiations with the government.Some 15,000 nurses fighting for better work conditions... Read More
Copa moves to 11 weekly flights to Jamaica — Bartlett
SANTIAGO, Chile — Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett has announced that one of Latin America's largest airlines, Copa, will now fly daily between Panama City and Montego Bay starting July of this year, bringing to eleven the overall number of flights weekly between both cities. Read More
Starbuck opens 2nd Jamaican store in 4 months
ST JAMES, Jamaica — American coffee chain Starbucks is set to open a second store Jamaica within the next four months, after opening its first store in late last year in the tourism capital of Montego Bay in St James. “We are actually expanding soon. Our Kingston store is... Read More
C'bean commits to spearheading digital ecosystem, e-commerce
BOGOTA, Colombia (CMC) — With the adoption of the Cartagena Declaration here, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says regional countries have approved the eLAC 2020 Digital Agenda, which seeks regional cooperation to continue moving forward on inclusion,... Read More
'World's oldest person' dies in Japan at 117
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 117-year-old Japanese woman, thought to be the world's oldest person, has died, a local official told AFP Sunday.Nabi Tajima, who was born August 4, 1900, died around 8:00 pm (1100 GMT) Saturday at a hospital on her native Kikai Island in Kagoshima... Read More
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