[caption id="attachment_3805" align="alignleft" width="300"] D.C.-based lawyer and creator of the viral #OscarsSoWhite hashtag April Reign is one of many critics boycotting the 2015 Academy Awards. (@ReignOfApril / Twitter)[/caption] Of everything published in the run up to this year's Academy Awards ceremony, diversity — or rather, a...
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Yahoo has reported that Bobbi Kristina Brown was using heroin and other drugs before she was found face down and unresponsive in her bathtub on January 31. The allegation, which comes from a People source, is that the 21-year-old “regularly” used heroin, cocaine...
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. The attack on a market...
[caption id="attachment_3771" align="alignleft" width="300"] High-grade Jamaican variety Purple Skunk[/caption] BALRAM Vaswani chairman and 'chief ganja officer' of Ganja Labs USA and the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) on Monday, February 16 signed a three-year agreement to develop high-quality ganja strains. It forms the latest drive to formalise...
YEPPOON, Australia (AFP) - Two powerful cyclones roared ashore in Australia Friday leaving a trail of destruction with buildings severely damaged, trees uprooted and power lines downed, cutting electricity to thousands of people. Tropical Cyclone Marcia, a category five tempest, slammed into the Queensland coast just...