The education ministry has confirmed that a number of teachers in the critical subject area of math are taking up jobs overseas and will not be returning to the secondary school system in the upcoming academic year. However, the ministry said it is uncertain at this...
THIRTEEN inmates at Half-Way-Tree Police lock-up, who are accused of assaulting three police officers and damaging fixtures inside their cell, were yesterday remanded when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. They have been identified as Courtney Duhaney, Shamar Bennett, Christopher Robertson, Rohan...
After a mishap with an Island Safari Tour vehicle on the Valley Road on Tuesday, nine tourists including six Americans and three Germans, were treated in hospital for related injuries. An anonymous source told OBSERVER media yesterday that the vehicle was attempting to overtake a tractor,...
Climatologist at the Antigua & Barbuda Meteorological Services Dale Destin said more named storms are expected than had been previously forecast, as the region enters the more active portion of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Yesterday, Destin told OBSERVER media that the forecast has now been...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC) — The United States Coast Guard says more than 500 people made their escape on emergency slides from the Caribbean Fantasy cruise ship off the Puerto Rican coast after a blaze erupted in the ship’s engine room. On Wednesday morning, the...