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Gang wars raging in Jamaica
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(Jamaica Observer) Police Commissioner Owen Ellington yesterday reported that there are currently 42 gang conflicts raging across the island. Speaking at a special Post Cabinet press briefing called...
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Grenada PM rues court dispute with Taiwan
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(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, says the ongoing dispute between his island and Taiwan should never have reached the courts. But Thomas says the legal team must continue to work and...
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Machel, MacFarlane cop Carnival crowns
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(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano’s “Pump Yuh Flag” was played 233 times to make him a runaway winner of the 2012 Road March, adding to his Digicel International Power Soca Monarch and Play Whe...
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Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people
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BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during this morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in...
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Man murdered at Imbaimadai
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The police say they are investigating the murder of Clive Cornelius, 23 years of Imbaimadai, which occurred at about 0840h. today at Imbaimadai. Police say that investigations revealed that Cornelius...
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Murdered `Tall Man’ identified
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Further to press release made yesterday, in relation to the murder of “Tall Man” which occurred at Konawaruk Backdam, the police say that he has been identified as Troy Anthony Burkett, 41 years, of...
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Stunning revelations in Barbados CLICO probe
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(Barbados Nation) Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s law firm received a whopping Bds$3.3 million in legal and retainer fees from CLICO International Life Insurance Limited (CIL), but the fees were...
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Sugar supplies to Caricom states affected by industrial action
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The Guyana Sugar Corporation today said that a strike at its bagging and packaging location at Blairmont has delayed its ability to meet marketing commitments to sister Caricom states. Beset by debt...
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Five-year crime plan for Jamaica
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(Jamaica Observer) A National Security Policy to tackle the country’s ballooning crime rate with an intent to reduce murders from the current three per day to less than one over the next five...
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Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world
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AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, today killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an...
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