Jose Gimenez was the unlikely 89th-minute match winner as Uruguay defeated an Egypt side shorn of star man Mohamed Salah 1-0 in their World Cup opener today. Uruguay's deserved last-gasp victory leaves them and Russia in early control in Group A after the hosts' 5-0 mauling...
President Trump said on Friday that he wants "his people" to listen to him like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's people listen to him. "He’s the head of a country. And I mean, he is the strong head," Trump said of Kim in a tongue-in-cheek...
A Caribbean country is pushing ahead with a medical marijuana unit while another says it will look at loosening the laws on the drug. Jamaica seems to be following the lead of Canada and many US states in pursuing legal growth of the medical marijuana sector. Jamaica’s...
Over six dozen Caribbean and Latin American immigrants could soon be sent packing out of the US after they were nabbed and placed in detention last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Jersey. Seventy-four of the immigrants arrested in the operation...
The World Bank claims growth in the Latin America and the Caribbean region is projected to accelerate to a downwardly revised 1.7 percent this year but several Caribbean nations are forecast to buck that prediction, a News Americas analyst has found. Latest data from the World...