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Holness says historic low poverty rate is a result of strategic gov’t policies
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Holness says historic low poverty rate is a result of strategic gov’t policies
May 21 09:40 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the recently announced drop in the poverty rate which he says is a result of targeted p...
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Venezuelans in limbo as US court ends deportation protection
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Venezuelans in limbo as US court ends deportation protection
May 21 09:27 PM
DORAL , United States (AFP) — Denis Caldeira says he is in legal limbo since the US Supreme Court let the Trump administration strip him and 350,000 o...
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US chides OAS role in Haiti’s political and security situation
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US chides OAS role in Haiti’s political and security situation
May 21 08:50 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The United States (US) is re-considering its policy towards Haiti where criminal gangs are seeking to overthrow the ...
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Tasha K looks forward to UK return
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Tasha K looks forward to UK return
May 21 08:46 PM
The last time Tasha T performed in the United Kingdom, it was in 2016 to promote her album, Real Talk . She returns there for two shows, including Cit...
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Calabash Fest set for this weekend with stunning line-up
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Calabash Fest set for this weekend with stunning line-up
May 21 08:45 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — This weekend, four acclaimed Man Booker Prize winners — Michael Ondaatje (1992), Ian McEwan (1998), Marlon James (2015), and Sheha...
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Gas prices up $2.03, 1.75 diesel up $3.06
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Gas prices up $2.03, 1.75 diesel up $3.06
May 21 08:19 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Motorists should see an increase at the pumps in the price of gasoline effective Thursday, May 22, according to the latest ex-refi...
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Spurs edge Man Utd to win Europa League and end trophy drought
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Spurs edge Man Utd to win Europa League and end trophy drought
May 21 08:09 PM
BILBAO, Spain (AFP) -- Brennan Johnson's scrambled goal ended a 17-year Tottenham trophy drought with a battling 1-0 win over Manchester United in the...
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA Most Valuable Player award
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA Most Valuable Player award
May 21 07:53 PM
MIAMI, United States (AFP) -- Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named Most Valuable Player in the NBA for the 2024-2025 season on We...
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Costa Rica prison guards catch drug-smuggling cat
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Costa Rica prison guards catch drug-smuggling cat
May 20, 2025
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP)— Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fenc...
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Trinidad police seize cocaine at Piarco International Airport
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Trinidad police seize cocaine at Piarco International Airport
April 21, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Police say they have held one suspect and seized nearly half a million dollars (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) worth of ...
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UK approves ‘landmark’ breast cancer drug
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UK approves ‘landmark’ breast cancer drug
April 11, 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A new drug that helps slow the spread of an incurable type of breast cancer has been approved for use in Britain's stat...
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Robert Chin to avoid prison in $90-m cocaine case
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Robert Chin to avoid prison in $90-m cocaine case
April 3, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Fifty-nine-year-old Robert Chin of a Mona St Andrew address avoided jail time after pleading guilty to being in possession and att...
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$3.1 billion in cocaine seized at Kingston seaport — police
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$3.1 billion in cocaine seized at Kingston seaport — police
March 29, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A massive drug bust at a seaport in Kingston has led to the seizure of over 1,000 pounds of cocaine disguised as Cuban honey, the ...
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Relatives seek clues at suspected Mexican ‘mass killing site’
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Relatives seek clues at suspected Mexican ‘mass killing site’
March 20, 2025
TEUCHITLAN, Mexico (AFP) — Desperate relatives of missing Mexicans on Thursday visited a suspected drug cartel training ground where bones, shoes and ...
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Mexico says won’t accept US ‘invasion’ in fight against cartels
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Mexico says won’t accept US ‘invasion’ in fight against cartels
February 20, 2025
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico's president warned the United States (US) Thursday her country would never tolerate an "invasion" of its national s...
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‘Most wanted’ Dutch drug trafficker killed in Mexico
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‘Most wanted’ Dutch drug trafficker killed in Mexico
February 14, 2025
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - A Dutch drug trafficker who was one of Europe's most wanted criminals and once reportedly faked his own death has been mur...
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British woman on cocaine rap to face the court on March 20
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British woman on cocaine rap to face the court on March 20
February 4, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Brandi James, the British woman who was charged after a substance believed to be cocaine was found in her luggage at the Sangster ...
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Five men charged with multiple drug-related offences
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Five men charged with multiple drug-related offences
January 3, 2025
ST THOMAS, Jamaica — Five men have been charged with breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act following the seizure of approximately 1,832 pounds of com...
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Health groups aim to reach 2 million people with HIV prevention drug
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Health groups aim to reach 2 million people with HIV prevention drug
December 17, 2024
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Several giant United States (US) and international groups focused on fighting HIV and AIDS on Tuesday unveiled a plan to s...
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Canadian pensioner caught with cocaine at NMIA
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Canadian pensioner caught with cocaine at NMIA
December 6, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Canadian pensioner is now facing several drug-related charges after he was caught with four kilograms of cocaine concealed in fo...
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Four arrested following major drug busts in St Ann, Kingston over weekend
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Four arrested following major drug busts in St Ann, Kingston over weekend
December 3, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Four people have been arrested in connection with two major drug busts on Saturday in St Ann and Kingston. The first incident occu...
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Germany takes down illegal online market ‘Crimenetwork’
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Germany takes down illegal online market ‘Crimenetwork’
December 3, 2024
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – German prosecutors on Tuesday said they had broken up an illegal online trading platform for drugs, stolen data and other illi...
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US$18m in drugs seized in the Caribbean Sea
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US$18m in drugs seized in the Caribbean Sea
November 28, 2024
MIAMI, United States (CMC) — The United States (US) Coast Guard says the crew of its “Cutter Vigilant” has returned home to Cape Canaveral in Florida ...
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British man spared jail time, fined $750,000 for cocaine found in slippers
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British man spared jail time, fined $750,000 for cocaine found in slippers
November 27, 2024
ST JAMES, Jamaica — A British man who was held with 1.5 pounds of cocaine hidden inside two pairs of slippers at the Sangster International Airport in...
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Massive drug bust unearths new Pacific trafficking route
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Massive drug bust unearths new Pacific trafficking route
November 27, 2024
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AFP) — Authorities from dozens of countries seized 225 metric tonnes of cocaine in a six-week mega-operation where they unearthed a ...
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Manchester businessman sentenced after guilty plea in cocaine case
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Manchester businessman sentenced after guilty plea in cocaine case
October 8, 2024
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A businessman was fined more than $3 million in the Manchester Parish Court on Monday, after pleading guilty to possession of co...
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British man reportedly held with drugs at airport
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British man reportedly held with drugs at airport
October 8, 2024
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A British man was reportedly taken into police custody for suspected breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act after he tried to boar...
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British Royal Navy makes multimillion-dollar cocaine bust of ‘narco-sub’ in the Caribbean Sea
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British Royal Navy makes multimillion-dollar cocaine bust of ‘narco-sub’ in the Caribbean Sea
September 13, 2024
LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — The British Royal Navy on Thursday said its patrol ship HMS Trent seized £160 million (1GBP = US1.28) of cocaine from a...
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Antiguan magistrate wants answers as to how Jamaican was deported
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Antiguan magistrate wants answers as to how Jamaican was deported
September 11, 2024
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Magistrate Dane Hamilton has called for an investigation after Antigua’s Immigration Department deported a Jamaican who has...
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Spain seizes more than one million ecstasy pills
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Spain seizes more than one million ecstasy pills
September 10, 2024
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Police in Spain on Tuesday said that they had seized more than one million ecstasy pills and other narcotics worth more than 25 ...
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Venezuelans in limbo as US court ends deportation protection
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WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The United States (US) is re-considering its policy towards Haiti where criminal gangs are seeking to overthrow the ...
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Tasha K looks forward to UK return
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Tasha K looks forward to UK return
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The last time Tasha T performed in the United Kingdom, it was in 2016 to promote her album, Real Talk . She returns there for two shows, including Cit...
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Calabash Fest set for this weekend with stunning line-up
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