With ongoing construction being carried out at five government public schools, Antigua & Barbuda’s Education Minister Michael Brown is assuring the public that it will be business as usual with no disruption anticipated to regular school. “For the most part, in most of the schools, the...
Despite fresh protest, government has made its strongest statement yet about turning the Five Islands Facility into the University Campus of Antigua & Barbuda. Education Minister Michael Browne said the attorney general will draft the University Act of 2016, which will have its first reading next...
The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has reported a 2.4 per cent increase in Jamaica’s murder rate for the first six months of the year, when compared to the corresponding period in 2015. Outside of murder, the country, however, had a 22.8 per cent decline in...
The shocking execution-style killing of a toddler on Luke Lane in downtown Kingston, on Tuesday night, has left residents in the community in fear and outrage. According to relatives, two-year-old Demario Whyte was shot in his head at point-blank range by the gunman after his injured...
A mother, father and three children were rushed to the Mount St John’s Medical Centre after a fire gutted their Jennings home yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. Forty-one-year-old Gaiann Williams and three young children — her seven-year-old step-daughter, her three-year-old and eight-month-old sons-along...