JAMAICA has undertaken a study on the local castor oil industry as the country moves to take advantage of a global market expected to value an estimated US$1.81 billion by 2020. The study was commissioned by the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) and examined recommendations for development...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - A bus carrying Rio Olympics journalists came under attack Tuesday and police were investigating whether bullets were fired from the notorious City of God favela. Rio 2016 organisers said two journalists suffered slight injuries in the attack, which set off...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados health authorities on Tuesday said they were investigating the cause of microcephaly in two babies delivered at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) this week. A statement from the Ministry of Health said that the doctors at the QEH are carrying out...
A St Andrew shopkeeper found guilty of shooting a woman to death during a dispute is to be sentenced in the Gun Court on September 30. Thirty-three-year-old Wayne Martin of Molynes Road was found guilty of murdering Kerry-Ann Watson by a seven-member jury on August 3,...
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A man is in police custody after being taken off a LIAT flight at the V.C Bird International Airport, over remarks he made to an air hostess. Neither the police nor LIAT has disclosed the name of the passenger. But the man is...