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KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Robert Montague, says more than 150 guns and over 1, 500 rounds of ammunition have been seized by law enforcement authorities so far this year. Montague said that up until ...

One of Ireland’s most historic homes is for sale. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and ‘drown the shamrock’ at the Guinness Beer Castle that has reigned over the rolling emerald hills of Ireland near Dublin since the 18th century. In recent ...

By Martin Khor IPS Guest Writer PENANG, Malaysia March 15, 2017 (IPS) — Last year Uber started testing driver-less cars, with humans inside to make corrections in case something goes wrong. If the tests go well, Uber will presumably replace ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist With regard to the perennial wave of crime and violence in Jamaica, it was heartening to read the comments of Robertino Gordon, dean of discipline at Cornwall College in Montego Bay. He stressed the fact ...

DEM JAMAICANS By Shelley Sykes-Coley PRIDE Guest Poet Yu know yu is Jamaican if yu have a ‘what not’ inna yu house, An’ when yu did small, yu did ketch up grass louse. Yu know yu is Jamaican if you ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario March 15, 2017 — St. Lucia-born Justice Gregory Regis, a former Regional Senior Judge with the Ontario Court of Justice, was recently appointed as distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University, for one ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A 55-year-old British engineer has died after he fell into a concrete mixer at a construction site in Matilda, Princes Town, south of here yesterday, police said. Police said ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A High Court judge will, on May 16, rule whether or not the former chairman of CL Financial, Lawrence Duprey, can change his defence in a matter in which ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana March 15, 2017 (CMC) – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a 47-year-old Jamaican national, in its custody, has died at Lafayette General Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. ICE said the cause of death ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A 16-year-old British national died, yesterday after she fell onto the deck of a yacht, while cleaning its mast. Police said Bethany Smith died at hospital, where she had been taken after falling ...