- O-Wrap: UK to formalise Windrush migrants... Reid enters representational politics... US eases Rusal sanctions 6:52 pm
- RSPL final: Portmore United, Waterhouse goalless at halftime 9:52 pm
- SRC encourages entrepreneurs to purchase formulations for products 9:23 pm
- Professor defends role in Cambridge Analytica data scandal 8:21 pm
- Nigeria, Jamaica to strengthen relations 8:26 pm
- UPDATE: Van kills 10 and injures 15 in Toronto; driver in custody 8:09 pm
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US authorities capture Tennessee shooting suspect
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Police in the US state of Tennessee on Monday captured the man suspected of gunning down four people at a restaurant in Nashville, America's country music capital. Read More
UK promises to formalise status of Windrush migrants
LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — The British government says Commonwealth nationals, including those from the Caribbean, who came to Britain between 1948 and 1973 would have their status formalised following the controversy that erupted over the so-called undocumented United Kingdom (UK)... Read More
PNP says ZOSO, SOE not arresting crime wave
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fitz Jackson, the Opposition spokesman on national security, has criticised the effectiveness of the Government's latest crime initiatives and is urging the authorities to take serious and urgent action in light of increasing murder rates across the country. Read More
World's first penis, scrotum transplant done in US
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Doctors at Johns Hopkins University said Monday they have performed the world's first total penis and scrotum transplant on a US military serviceman who was wounded in Afghanistan. Read More
UPDATE: T&T gov't says no Venezuelans were forced to leave
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad and Tobago government, in responding to claims that Venezuelan asylum seekers were forcibly repatriated to their homeland, says no Venezuelans were compelled or coerced into leaving the country last Saturday. Read More
Road fatalities down but pedestrians continue to lead tally
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Statistics from the Ministry of Transportation's Road Safety Unit have revealed that 96 persons have been killed in 85 fatal crashes since January, in comparison to 106 persons killed in a similar period last year. Read More
Public, private pharmacy partnership an 'overwhelming success' — Tufton
ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — Health Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, says the Public-Private Sector Pharmacy Programme has significantly improved the ease with which persons issued with prescriptions at Government health facilities are able to access medication. Read More
Cosby defense blocked from using deposition; trial nears end
PENNSYLVANIA, United States (AP) — Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial won't hear old deposition testimony from a confidante of his chief accuser, a judge ruled Monday, dealing a blow to his lawyers' effort to undermine her credibility. Read More
Grenada prepares for another CCJ referendum
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) — The Ministry of Legal Affairs is preparing to conduct another referendum on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) — two years after the electorate voted to reject the Trinidad-based court as its final appellate court.On Monday, Attorney General... Read More
Ruel Reid to represent JLP in NW St Ann
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Education, Senator Ruel Reid has been endorsed as the new Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker in North West St Ann. The decision was made at a special Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) delegates' meeting at the Cardiff Hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann late... Read More
Threat of nuclear weapons use growing, UN warns
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A top UN official on Monday denounced growing rhetoric claiming that nuclear arms are necessary and warned that the risk of such weapons being used was on the rise."The threat of the use, intentional or otherwise, of nuclear weapons is growing," the... Read More
Afghan star Rashid Khan picked for World XI T20 match vs West Indies
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Afghanistan's mesmerising leg spinner Rashid Khan will play for a World XI in the one-off Twenty20 clash with West Indies at Lord's to raise funds for stadiums damaged by last year's hurricanes in the Caribbean.The 19-year-old — who is... Read More
JCF urges citizens not to interfere in arrests
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The High Command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is raising concern about what it says is the frequency with which members of the public continue to interfere in police operations, especially when an arrest is being made in a public space.According... Read More
ONLINE READERS COMMENT: Stop playing lewd music on public transportation
Dear Editor,I am kindly asking Prime Minister Andrew Holness or Opposition Leader, Peter Phillips, to give a direct address to the nation, for the first time, pertaining to the playing of lewd music on public passenger transport — buses and taxis — also in public spaces... Read More
Prince William's wife Kate gives birth to son
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Kate, the wife of Britain's Prince William, has given birth to a baby son, Kensington Palace announced Monday."Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 11:01 (1001 GMT)," the palace said in a statement. The baby... Read More
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