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Skinny Fabulous’ Dancehall Love Affair – Vincentian Artiste Says Career Started With Lyrics Penned...
(Jamaica Gleaner)
“It was my first real genre that I fell in love with,” Skinny Fabulous told The Gleaner. The Vincentian singer-songwriter said his interest...
HAITI – Food Insecurity Expected To Rise Next Year, UN Humanitarian Agency Reports
The number of Haitians who do not have sufficient food to eat is expected to surpass four million next year, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday.
In 2020, 4.6 million Haitians, about...
JAMAICA – Fatal Christmas Morning Stabbing In Downtown Kingston
(Loopjamaica.com)
The police are probing the stabbing death of a man on Orange Street in downtown Kingston early on Christmas Day.
The deceased man has been...
DOMINICA – Skerrit Promises 5000 Resilient Homes Before End Of New DLP Term
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that five thousand resilient homes will be built before the end of the Dominica Labour Party’s (DLP) five...
RUSSIA – Putin Says Russia Is Leading World In Hypersonic Weapons
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country...
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS – LIAT Resumes Direct Flights Between BVI & Barbados
(bvinews.com)
Regional airline LIAT has resumed its direct flight from the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island to the Grantley Adams International Airport...
TRINIDAD: President Signs Proclamation Decriminalising Use of Small Amounts of Marijuana
(The West Indian)
President Paula Mae-Weekes has signed the legislation proclaiming the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act that will allow for persons to have in their...
JAMAICA: Miss World To Use Her Platform To Advocate Change
Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh, says that winning the prestigious global title has given her a platform to advocate for change while participating in...
JAMAICA: No place like prison
(Jamaica Gleaner)
Jamaican citizens account for more than half the total number of Caribbean citizens now incarcerated in United States (US) prisons.
Statistics released to The...
JAMAICA: Bikers Rob Woman Of Her 21 Pieces Of KFC
Miriam was looking forward to biting into a piece of spicy chicken breast that she bought at the KFC restaurant in Cross Roads, St...
GUYANA: Death sentence for youth who murdered and dismembered businesswoman
A 25-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to death for the murder of 45-year-old United States-based Guyanese businesswoman Samantha Benjamin, whose dismembered body was...
TRINIDAD: Trinidadian Footballer Killed In Crash
Police are confirming that one of the four people killed in a fiery crash on the Solomon Hochoy Highway near the Gasparillo overpass this...
JAMAICA: Aspiring Filmmaker Seeks Help To Tell Narratives Of The Caribbean
When aspiring filmmaker Danielle Mullings saw the film 'Sprinter' for the first time, she was imbued by the feeling that telling narratives about Caribbean...