Angry JC students urged to pray after schoolmate killed on bus

October 28, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14925" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nicholas Francis’ desk decorated with tributes from his classmates[/caption] ANGER and grief gripped Jamaica College in St Andrew yesterday as students grappled with the death of one of their schoolmates late Wednesday at the hands of a savage, knife-wielding robber. Fourteen-year-old Nicholas Francis,...

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UWI Regional Task Force On Zika Tracks Rare Neurological Disorder

October 27, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14915" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thomas Langerak, PhD student at Erasmus Medical Centre, Holland, (second from right), demonstrates the use of the new Caribbean database for Guillain-Barré Syndrome to (L-R) Dr Azad Esack, Consultant, Neurologist, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Centre, Mount Hope (EWMSC); Dr Sherry Sandy,...

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One dead, five injured in Haiti food fight

October 27, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14907" align="alignright" width="300"] Residents await their turn to obtain food and zinc sheets for roofing at a local distribution center in the city of Jeremie, southwestern Haiti, on October 22, 2016, in the aftermath of Hurrican Matthew[/caption] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A young woman in...

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Keep Them Behind Bars: Guyana’s Top Cop Wants Courts To Stop Giving Bail To People Accused of Gun Crime

October 26, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_14896" align="alignright" width="300"] Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine[/caption] GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday October 26, 2016 – Guyana’s top cop doesn’t believe that bail should be granted to re-offenders or anyone who is charged with a gun crime. Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine is therefore calling...

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LIAT says doing all it can to ensure flight schedule maintained with little or no disruption

October 26, 2016 in Regional

ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- LIAT’s management has assured its customers that it is doing all within its power to ensure the flight schedule is maintained with little or no disruption. LIAT's acting CEO, Julie Reifer-Jones, maintains that the company has sufficient crew to operate the current...

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