Rio de Janeiro , Brazil — Usain Bolt easily captured the men’s 200m in 19.78 seconds (-0.5 m/s) and secured his eighth Olympic gold medal while staying on course for an unprecedented ‘treble triple’ in his pursuit of immortality. Bolt, who had completed a third consecutive 100m...
Two bomb attacks blamed on Kurdish militants killed seven members of the security forces and wounded 224 people in southeast Turkey on Thursday, officials and security sources said, in a renewed escalation of violence across the region. A car bomb ripped through a police station in...
SUNDAYS — the day of worship for most Jamaicans — is proving to be deadliest on the island’s roadways, according the Road Safety Unit (RSU) in the Ministry of Transport and Mining. Of the 248 road fatalities recorded since the beginning of the year, 47 were...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Usain Bolt won a third-successive Olympic 200m gold yesterday to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented “triple triple” in Rio. The victory in his favoured event was Bolt’s 13th individual world or Olympic sprint title from a possible 14...
The education ministry has confirmed that a number of teachers in the critical subject area of math are taking up jobs overseas and will not be returning to the secondary school system in the upcoming academic year. However, the ministry said it is uncertain at this...