The grief stricken mother of 25-year-old Oniqua Nikki Phillip, who was run over by a truck on Carnival Tuesday, is hitting back at the public for blaming her daughter for her own death. Since the tragic incident over a week ago, there has been widespread speculation...
The President of the Red Cross Michael Joseph is dismissing suggestions that the free movement within the OECS, is a passport for sex and trafficking in Antigua and Barbuda. Joseph says free movement or not, sex workers are going to move around as they please. “Because...
The police have blamed an electrical fault as the cause of the Long Street fire which consumed a retail store’s stock and blanketed two city blocks in thick grey-white smoke yesterday. While the proprietors of Home Ideal Store have been left to clean up the...
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr Zoe Simpson, says evidence from the centre’s recruitment activities is suggesting a decline in pregnancy among adolescent teens. “We have not done the empirical research; however, by virtue of the fact...
The Free & Fair Elections League (F&FEL) has indicated it will appeal the recent High Court judgement that dismissed its challenge to the number of parliamentarians in Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s Cabinet. According to Secretary of the F&FEL, George Rick James, the appeal to the Eastern...