Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom next summer, fulfilling a key demand of women’s rights activists who faced detention for defying the ban. The kingdom was the only the country in the world to bar women...
A 20-year-old man was reportedly killed in front the Frome Police Station in Westmoreland on Monday. The police have identified the deceased as Daniel Anthonio Lawrence, a labourer from Jungle in the parish. Lawrence, who was on murder and shooting charges was gunned down around 9:00 am after he reported to the Police...
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is mourning the death of her pastor. The multiple Olympic and World Championships gold medal winner shared the devastating news on Sunday. "You have taught me so many lessons in this life and even in your death you continue to show me the Power of our Lord Jesus...
Jamaica's most wanted man, Marlon 'Duppy Film' Perry, was killed by police on Sunday. According to Head of Crime for the Police Area 5, Senior Superintendent Derrick Champagnie, Perry was killed in Port Morant, St Thomas. 'Duppy Film' is accused of killing Corporal Kenneth Davis and Constable Craig Palmer on December 22, 2015,...
A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that together have killed nearly 400 people. The U.S. Geological Survey said the new, magnitude 6.1 temblor was...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) will hold a special convocation to confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) on former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. The ceremony will take place at the Assembly Hall, UWI Mona Campus on Saturday, September 30. The University said it is conferring the...
Over 700 pounds of compressed ganja with an estimated street value of $3 million JMD was found in Whitehouse, Westmoreland by detectives from the Narcotics Division on Wednesday.
The drug bust was made while Police were conducting anti-narcotics operations in the area when they searched two dwelling houses and an open section of land...
Liliane Bettencourt, the L’Oreal cosmetics heiress and the world’s richest woman, has died at her home in a chic Parisian suburb. She was 94. Bettencourt’s daughter, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, said in a written statement Thursday that her mother “left peacefully” overnight in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Liliane Bettencourt was the only child of Eugene...