As Israeli settlers use the war in Gaza as a pretext for a land grab in Palestinians' other territory, olive farmers fear their way of life may be on the verge of extinction.
The high court is weighing a case that could rewrite the rules of care in more than two-thirds of U.S. abortions, limiting access to a popular drug even in states where it remains legal.
(Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday during his visit to Brazil that a potential agreement between the European Union and the South American Mercosur trade bloc as it stands is a “very bad...
(Reuters) – Colombia ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomats from their embassy in the Andean nation, Colombia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, citing “denigrating” comments by Argentine...
MARACAIBO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales said yesterday he was willing to hand over his place on the ballot to a unity candidate, amid uncertainty over who will carry the...
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court...
HEAD OF Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) Ainsley Powell says there is no plan for any employee to be sanctioned over the situation where the agency has spent almost $400 million for the leasing of two buildings that remain unoccupied....
Deputy Senate President Charles Sinclair yesterday clashed with Peter Bunting, the leader of opposition business, over the latter’s insistence that he would finish Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s Budget presentation, which was cut short...
A 17-YEAR-OLD student of Jamaica College (JC) was left hospitalised after criminals robbed him of his cell phone and stabbed him outside the gates of the National Stadium in Kingston on Friday, where the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’...
THE FOUR women charged in connection with the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on September 17, for plea and case management hearing. Alysia...
TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March...
WESTERN BUREAU: NECESSITY IS the mother of invention. That is an idiom commonly used and is now proven by the residents of Woodsville, in Hanover eastern, a deep-rural community that also falls in the Hopewell division in the Hanover...
According to Dr Cheryl McLaughlin, deputy managing director of the National Training and Programmes Division of the HEART/NSTA Trust, there’s no longer any justification for Jamaicans to view the Trust as an organisation whose sole...
Haiti is in the grip of a worsening humanitarian crisis, with nearly half of the population likely facing acute food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) analysis (IPC) . The Food and...
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Haiti is the middle of a crisis and is without a government as gangs in Port-au-Prince prevent one. But some parts of Haiti have lived without a functioning government for so long they cannot remember what it's like to have one. Our...
Researchers suspect that starvation may have killed half off all gray whales off the Pacific Coast of North America. What happened to their food source?
Prime Minister Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit arrived in Boao, Hainan Province on Wednesday where he will address the Bao Forum for Asia 2024. The Prime Minister is leading a high-level government delegation to China to celebrate the...
The building of the International Airport in the Wesley, Woodfordhill, and Palm Tree [area] is generally seen as a welcomed infrastructure project to the area and Dominica. Finding someone who opposes the building of such a mega...
Alors que les parties engagées dans la formation du CP n’arrivent pas à s’entendre sur le choix d’un Président pour mener le groupe, d’autres acteurs...
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that countries within the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) with Citizenship By Investment (CBI) Programs have agreed to take joint actions to address concerns raised by the...
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that his government will soon go to Parliament to pass the necessary legislation for the implementation of electoral reform for Dominica. He made the disclosure during a press conference...
Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP) Dr. Thomson Fontaine has described the recent report from then International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “distressing”. Dr. Fontaine made the comment on Q-95 Radio recently. An IMF staff team, led by...
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, (Reuters) – A crowd swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, sweating and shouting, jostling for a chance at a once-monthly...
Five United Arab Emirates officers graduate from L.A.'s Police Academy, raising new questions about LAPD ties to overseas law enforcement, including Israeli security forces.
BELEM, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil and France yesterday launched an investment programme to protect the Brazilian and French Guianese Amazon rainforest involving 1 billion euros (US$1.1 billion) in private and public funds...
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police are investigating why former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month right after his passport was seized in an investigation...
FINANCE MINISTER Dr Nigel Clarke closed the Budget Debate yesterday, firing several salvos at Opposition Leader Mark Golding, calling his criticism of the Government’s tax-free financial blueprint for the coming financial year...
Despite spending some $371.8 million of taxpayers’ money to lease two properties over a three-year period, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) failed to occupy the buildings up to August 31 last year. The report was tabled in Parliament...
Edmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter AFTER HOLDING two reports from the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) for more than two months, Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness yesterday yielded to unrelenting calls...
Former Solicitor General Michael Hylton, King’s Counsel (KC), says the public service, which has a carefully constructed disciplinary procedure in relation to public servants, does not contemplate that politicians such as the Speaker of...
AUDITOR GENERAL (AuG) Pamela Monroe Ellis has confirmed that the Financial Services Commission (FSC) incurred a $163-million loss when Jamaica hosted the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) conference in 2017....
CELEBRATION CONTINUES into the 75th anniversary of women in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), as 30 trailblazing women across Area One were feted by charitable organisation Sarah’s Children and S Hotel. The women, whose ranks ranged...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it will be closely monitoring the Rio Cobre Water Treatment Plant project in Content, St Catherine, to ensure that customers get the best rates possible. Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier...
After its first two choices to compete for the presidency against Nicolás Maduro in July’s election were barred from running, the coalition of opposition parties was able to register a third, provisional choice.