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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The...
Rio de Janeiro Olympics Games 400 metres hurdles women's champion, Dalilah Muhammad is the latest international athlete to confirm for the Jamaica Athletics Invitational. Muhammad, who also won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games and a two-...
NEW YORK (AP) — The decision by New York's highest court to overturn the rape conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reopened a painful chapter in America's reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti was installed today in the capital of this Caribbean country, which is marred by gang violence and soaring hunger and poverty. The freshly...
Twelve motor cars have been added to the fleet of the Transport Authority, which will be used to improve the authority's capacity to monitor and regulate the public transportation sector. Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Ralston...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter today with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang...
The 14-year-old Irwin High schoolboy charged with the murder of his schoolmate was today granted bail in the St James Family Court. The accused his being represented by attorney Maurice McCurdy. McCurdy told The Gleaner that his client is...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Congo 's government is questioning Apple about the tech company's knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into its...
Dr. Donovan Bennett has dethroned Wilford ‘Billy’ Heaven as president of the Jamaica Cricket Association. Heaven, who led the county’s cricket affairs for the past 10 years lost the elections earlier today by a margin of 67 to 30. orane.buchanan@...
The police have charged the 14-year-old Irwin High School student for the fatal stabbing of his 15-year-old schoolmate Raniel Plummer during an altercation. His court date is being finalised. The police report that Plummer and a schoolmate had...
A man who attempted to rob a taxi driver and passengers in Clarendon last night was disarmed by the cabbie and fatally shot during a struggle. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old labourer Bobby Bruce of Frazer Content in Spanish Town,...
Omar Collymore, who is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his wife, and co-accused Michael 'Crayboss' Adams, the man whom he allegedly contracted to carry out the hit, both have a case to answer in the murder of...
The Government is looking to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) innovation teaching centre at National Heroes Circle in Kingston. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, in making the disclosure, said the facility will be...
Last year’s Jamaica Women’s Premier League champions Frazsiers Whip FC will be the only Caribbean representative in the inaugural Concacaf Women Champions Cup tournament. Frazsiers Whip qualified automatically for the competition’s group stage....
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 100 inmates escaped from an old and decrepit prison near Nigeria's capital after overnight heavy rains destroyed parts of the facility, a prison official said Thursday as security agencies searched for the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has hinted at the possibility of negotiating payment for reparations with British owners regarding the Drax Hall plantation, that for centuries had been the scene of inhumane treatment of...
Human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is renewing its call for the appointment of a permanent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). JFJ says it's of the view that there is no ambiguity that the office was rendered vacant as of...
Residents in Myrtle Way, Portmore, St Catherine, are benefiting from a zinc fence removal project, under the Government's community renewal intervention programme. Member of Parliament for St Catherine South Eastern, Robert Miller, told...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured...
President of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dennis Robotham says the business community in Spanish Town is reeling from the effects of the killing of Clansman enforcer Sheldon 'Termite' Walters in Top Bank last Friday...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein 's 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious”...
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says the reopening of the JISCO Alpart in Nain, St Elizabeth, remains a priority of the Government. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday, Green noted...
