September 2016

Asafa Powell Hunts 98th Sub-10 Clocking Today

September 07, 2016 in Sports

Jamaica’s Asafa Powell will be hunting his 98th sub-10-second clocking of his career as he leads three other Jamaicans into action in the IAAF World Challenge Series at the 66th edition of the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, Croatia, today. Andrew Riley, who was third in...

Father and son remanded for drug possession

September 07, 2016 in Regional

A father and son who were brought before the court on drug charges, have been remanded to prison after they could not come up with the $50,000 cash component of their bail. Fifty-three-year-old Derrick Arnold George and 21-year-old Huganjah Derrick George of Christian Valley are jointly...

Six year old kicked out of school

September 07, 2016 in Regional

President of the Antigua & Barbuda Association of Persons with Disabilities (ABAPD), Bernard Warner has cried “victimisation”, after his six-year-old daughter was reportedly thrown out of a primary school without notice. Warner told OBSERVER media that his daughter, Jennings Warner, was expelled from the Five Islands...