August 2018

After ten years of trading on the Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE), the Jamaican financial firm Jamaica Money Market Brokers Group Limited (JMMBGL) is set to quit the local money market. In what he described as a voluntary delisting, JMMBGL…

Tributes from former US presidents and across the political spectrum have poured in for Republican Senator John McCain, who has died aged 81. Barack Obama, who beat him to the White House in 2008, said they had shared a "fidelity to…

England Test captain Joe Root and vice-captain Jos Buttler will play for Sydney Thunder in this winter's Twenty20 Big Bash League in Australia. Root has not played in an overseas T20 competition before and the 27-year-old went unsold in…

Governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Brian Wynter has dismissed the claim that the Central Bank is devaluing the Jamaican dollar, as part of plans to increase the inflation rate. “It is absolutely not true and it takes you down a wrong…

40 First responders with the St. Kitts and Nevis Fire and Rescue Services (SKNFRS) are sharpening their response to emergencies during a two-day Incident Command System (ICS) workshop being held at the department of agriculture conference…

On Tuesday, pastors and church leaders met with senior government officials to discuss a number of matters, including grant project funding, the implementation of a school chaplains programme, and the religious activities included as part…

Prime Minister, Dr. The Honourable Timothy Harris says the Team Unity Administration looks forward to the inauguration of the Integrity in Public Life Commission and subsequent work, this important body will conduct. The integrity in public…

Permanent Secretary in the office of the Prime Minister, Mr Andrew Skerritt, was on Wednesday in Nevis leading a four-member team from the federal government to ensure that the data collection process for the Poverty Alleviation Programme…

The police have charged the two persons taken into custody following the discovery of a firearm in the truck they occupied at the time. According to a press statement, on Monday the police charged Lorin Bartlette of Cole Hill and Jervis…

Conditions in the ocean and the atmosphere are conspiring to produce a less active Atlantic hurricane season than initially predicted in May, though National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is raising caution as the season…

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has reportedly entered into a plea deal with federal prosecutors in New York. Mr Cohen, 51, is tipped to plead guilty to felony charges including tax fraud and campaign finance…

England are on the verge of a huge defeat by India in the third Test despite the defiance of Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes on day four at Trent Bridge. Buttler made his maiden Test century and Stokes 62 in a fifth-wicket partnership of 169…

It has been confirmed that Jamaican Dawna Munroe, her Italian husband Cristian Cecal, and their nine-year-old daughter Crystal, who was also born in Jamaica, were among the dozens of people killed when a bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy…

Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has been found guilty on five tax fraud charges at his trial in Virginia. He was also convicted on one count of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, and two bank fraud charges. Read more:…