- PETROTRIN confirms all workers will be sent home from state-owned refinery 4:25 pm
- Mineral Heights Primary taken off shift system 3:33 pm
- Plastic/styrofoam ban is no knee jerk reaction, says Vaz 2:33 pm
- Windies Women will get over opening 50-over loss — Logie 2:10 pm
- Athlete Kavon Nelson shot dead in Kingston 10:06 am
- Health minister calls on workplaces to establish wellness programmes 10:51 am
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Today's Horoscope - September 18
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, September 18, 2018: This year you will want to bolster an associate's or loved one's ideas. This person's concepts seem unusually creative. Your openness helps you rise above certain problems. If you are single, you seem to be transforming. Try to avoid a... Read More
Two million US teens are vaping marijuana
WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) — A school-based survey shows nearly one in 11 US students have used marijuana in electronic cigarettes, heightening health concerns about the new popularity of vaping among teens. Read More
Hope fades in Philippines for dozens buried in landslides
ITOGON, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of people believed buried in a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines probably did not survive, a mayor said yesterday, although rescuers kept digging through mud and debris covering a chapel where they had taken... Read More
Argentina presents austere budget for 2019
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Despite anti-austerity street protests, Argentina's government presented a tight budget yesterday under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to achieve fiscal balance. Read More
Watchdog slams safeguards for foster kids on psych drugs
WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AP) — Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted. Read More
PETROTRIN confirms all workers will be sent home from state-owned refinery
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, Tuesday said that all employees will be put on the breadline when the company shuts down its loss making oil refinery later this year. Read More
Mineral Heights Primary taken off shift system
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Mineral Heights Primary School in Clarendon is the latest institution to be taken off the shift system by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information. Read More
Plastic/styrofoam ban is no knee jerk reaction, says Vaz
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz, is rejecting as “false and without basis”, a claim by Chairman of the WISYNCO Group, William Mahfood, that the Government's decision to ban plastic bags and styrofoam... Read More
Athlete Kavon Nelson shot dead in Kingston
KINGSTON, Jamaica —Quarter-miler Kavon Nelson was reportedly gunned down at his home on MacVille Terrace in Kingston this morning. Read More
Health minister calls on workplaces to establish wellness programmes
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Health, Dr Christopher Tufton, says workplaces should establish wellness programmes to minimise downtime and to increase productivity. Read More
Bartlett lauds travel agents as valued tourism partners
ST ANN, Jamaica — Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has lauded travel agents as “true partners for Jamaica” as the destination consistently attains record visitor arrivals, especially over the past two years. Read More
Caribbean tourism stakeholders to meet in Cayman Islands
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands (CMC) —Tourism practitioners from the public and private sectors will meet here in November to share strategies and best practices on issues affecting the industry, the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) announced Tuesday. Read More
Businessman charged in $10-m counterfeit goods bust
ST ANDREW, Jamaica — The police are reporting that a 67-year-old businessman was charged in connection with the seizure of $10 million worth of counterfeit goods at a store located at the Boulevard Shopping Centre in St Andrew last Tuesday. Read More
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