The resignations of a police chief and of an officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota have failed to end unrest over Sunday's killing. Chief Tim Gannon and Officer Kim Potter have quit the Brooklyn Center force. Mrs Potter said she shot Daunte Wright...
Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom has announced that the husband of Queen Elizabeth the Second, Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh has died. He was 99 years old. The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the...
Tanzania's President, John Magufuli, is dead. The 61-year-old died from heart complications at a hospital after not being seen in public for more than two weeks. Opposition politicians said last week that he had contracted Covid-19 but this has been denied by the...
Former General Manager of PetroJam, Floyd Grindley, has been arrested and charged by detectives with the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency, MOCA, today. In a statement MOCA says Grindley has been slapped with eight counts of Aiding and Abetting and...
The Office of the Children's Advocate, OCA, says it's looking into unease among sections of the public that the Izizzi lottery game being promoted by new entrants in the lucrative lottery industry, Mahoe Gaming, is inappropriate and may attract under-aged people to...
Reports emerging are that iconic Jamaican Reggae and dancehall pioneer, Daddy U-roy, is dead. He reportedly died last night. Preliminary reports are he suffered a heart attack. He was 78 years old. Several leading Jamaican entertainers, including international...
Managing Director of SCJ Holdings Limited, Joseph Shoucair, is refuting media reports that the state-owned company has ordered the demolition of 15 family homes at Innswood Estates, St Catherine. In a statement, Mr Shoucair says the reports about the removal of...
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley, says the country will now remain on lockdown until the end of the month. This, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to climb. On the same day that it was announced the island had recorded the first death...
The country has recorded 205 additional cases of COVID-19 across the island bringing the total number case to over 19,035. That's according to the latest information from the Ministry of Health yesterday. It says another two persons have been killed by the virus...
Prime Minister Mia Mottley says Barbados and Dominica intend to share with their Caribbean neighbours some of the COVID-19 vaccines sent by the government of India. A Regional Security System aircraft arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday with...