ABC's 'Scandal' reduced to 18 episodes this season 8:08 PM
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T&T Security minister vows to keep out 'undesirables'
Saturday, December 07, 2013
TRINIDAD and Tobago's security minister Gary Griffith has declared that he will continue to boot undesirables from that country. Griffith's declaration came despite a promise by his parliamentary colleague, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran, who promised to ensure free travel between Jamaica and the twin isla ...more
Gunman’s sexual assault of St Catherine schoolgirls sparks anger
Saturday, December 07, 2013
THE sexual assault of three female students of a prominent St Catherine school by a gunman on Thursday has left worried residents demanding urgent action that will lead to the arrest of the perpetrator. The incident has also raised fresh concerns abo ...more
South Africa mourns - Song, dance, tears, prayers for Nelson Mandela
Saturday, December 07, 2013
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — South Africans erupted in song, dance and tears yesterday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country's black-white divide and helped a ...more
Two die in Lilliput crash
Saturday, December 07, 2013
LILLIPUT, St James — Two persons were killed Thursday when the motor vehicle in which they were travelling climbed an embankment and overturned along the Lilliput main road.
Police have identified the dead as Donwayne Gordon, 26, and Desmond H ...more
Saturday Social - Coldwell Banker's soirée
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Coldwell Banker's end-of-year soirée, hosted by managing director and broker Andrew Issa at the lovely Whispering Seas condominium in Tower Isle, St Mary last Sunday was such a blast that we're still celebrating with highlights.
(Photographer ...more
On the brink of anarchy
Saturday, December 07, 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — As the armed fighters who rule this country hunted door-to-door for their enemies yesterday, Christian civilians caught in the crossfire fled by the thousands to the only refuge they know in this chaotic ...more
PHOTO: Painful!
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Sixty-two-year-old Barrington Downer is being removed from his motor cart which crashed into a tree along the Mandela Highway in St Catherine on Thursday. Downer, of Kellyman Terrace, Kingston 11, was taken to hospital but died while undergoing treat ...more
This Day in History - December 7
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Today is the 341st day of 2013. There are 24 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1965: Pope Paul VI and ecumenical patriarch Athenagoras I of Istanbul abolish the mutual excommunication of 1054 that split Christianity into Catholic and Orthodo ...more
PHOTO: Mourning Mandela
Saturday, December 07, 2013
A man wears key rings showing the face of Nelson Mandela taped to his ears to mimic earrings as he and others celebrate Mandela's life in the street outside the former president's old house in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday. Flags were ...more
Three female students sexually assaulted at school
Friday, December 06, 2013
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica - Three girls were on Thursday sexually assaulted by an armed intruder at a school in Linstead, St Catherine.
The Ministry of Education issued a statement on Friday saying members of the ministry's team have been offering indiv ...more
Courtroom cleared for 'sensitive' testimony in Kartel case
Friday, December 06, 2013
THE Court will today continue to hear submissions on what aspect of testimony from former Cybercrime Unit boss, Sergeant Patrick Linton, will be put before jurors in the Vybz Kartel murder trial.
Yesterday, the jurors were sent home until Monday and ...more
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