US official cautions Jamaica on ganja legalisation: US not comfortable with Jamaica’s push to decriminalise weed

January 29, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3238" align="alignright" width="300"] BROWNFIELD… Jamaica must be mindful of international drug treaties[/caption] WASHINGTON, DC, USA — The United States Government has signalled some discomfort with Jamaica's move to decriminalise marijuana for specific uses. According to assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement...

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Miss Jamaica addresses rumor that she’s Pinay

January 28, 2015 in Regional

MANILA, Philippines – Is Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell half-Filipina? Social media is abuzz that Fennell, who represented Jamaica in the 63rd Miss Universe pageant on Sunday (Monday morning, Manila time), is of Filipino descent. In a column published on Tuesday. STAR entertainment editor Ricky Lo quoted an...

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Autopsy reveals blunt force trauma to the head, stab wounds, throat slit

January 28, 2015 in Regional

An autopsy performed Monday at Trinidad’s Forensic Science Centre in St James by pathologist Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris revealed that 51-year-old Journalist Marcia Henville was beaten about the head resulting in blunt force trauma, stabbed with a sharp instrument to the lower area of her neck...

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Politicians advised not to be quick to judge media workers

January 27, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3184" align="alignleft" width="300"] Political analyst Dr David Hinds. (www.guyanagraphic.com)[/caption] A professor of political science said politicians “should be embarrassed” when they attempt to criticise the work of media practitioners. Dr David Hinds admitted that, sometimes, publications from private and public media organisations are less than desirable,...

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PM Browne attends historic Energy Summit in the US

January 26, 2015 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne.[/caption] Prime Minister Gaston Browne will be among Caribbean leaders attending the first-ever Caribbean Energy Summit opening in Washington DC today. The Summit, an initiative of US Vice President Joe Biden, is a follow-up to a similar...

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