The tourism-dependent Caribbean region is expected to suffer more than many of its neighbors in Latin America as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) outlined during its 2020 Spring Meetings. Alejandro Werner, head of the IMF's Western Hemisphere department, said in...
Eight years later, the dream has become reality. The hard work has paid off. Mikiah Herbert Harrigan was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft on Friday night, one pick before former South Carolina teammate Ty Harris. “I...
Tennis phenom Coco Gauff rose to tennis stardom in 2019 with impressive showings at Wimbledon and the US Open when she was just 15. But the road to get there was fraught with depression just a year prior, Gauff, who is now 16, shared in a...
NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they’ve discovered an Earth-size exoplanet that is remarkably similar to our planet. NASA says a team of transatlantic scientists were looking through old observations from the now-retired Kepler space telescope when they discovered the planet, Kepler-1649c, orbiting in its star's habitable...
Jamaica’s Court of Appeal has reduced the time that dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and his three co-convicts must serve before becoming eligible for parole. The meager two and a half year sentence reductions were granted after the appellate court found an oversight in the trial...