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MORE THAN 5,000 Jamaicans are set to receive short-term employment under the much-touted Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), which yesterday received $4.2-billion worth of fuel to get the vehicle...

FINANCE MINISTER Dr Peter Phillips has signalled his intention to swing a $21.6-billion axe into the national Budget. By way of a second supplementary estimates of expenditure tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday...

A sense of déjà vu permeated the air yesterday as Marketing Counselors took the top prize once again at The Gleaner's Annual Advertisers' Appreciation and Agency Awards....

Peter Bunting, the minister of national security, says the difference in his approach to tackling the country's crime problem will be in the way his policies are executed."Talk is cheap and anything you can find has been said (before)...

National Security Minister Peter Bunting yesterday sought to quash speculation that Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington is on his way out the door.Bunting, who was speaking during a Jamaica House press conference, insisted Ellington...

A young political candidate was recently grilled by police following allegations that he engaged in illicit affairs with male minors, the Journal has been reliably informed.

Diet and nutritional advice is one of the most common questions that we see in clinical practice. It is apparent that people get continuously misled when it comes to advice to lose weight, restore health and prevent disease. The usual culprit of the misinformation is the media, internet, health professionals and most commonly, your neighbor.

Santiago.- Tomorrow Thursday at 9pm the expert in Chacabanas, Cristian Lagares, will showcase in Santiago Fashion Week his spring - summer 2012 collection, Nazar, with 32 pieces on the runway.

SD. - The Dominican Naval Auxiliaries received a special training course on search and rescue, taught by officers of the United States Coast Guard, in the headquarters of the Dominican Navy.

I'm a firm believer that the more knowledge you acquire, the richer your life will be. But as college tuition and fees continue to skyrocket, students and parents increasingly are asking, "Is a degree really worth the cost?"

Santo Domingo.- The visas cancelled by the US of active and retired military officers close to president Leonel Fernandez won?t harm relations with Washington, and much less foreign investments, said Economy minister Temistocles Montas Wednesday.

As their leaders happily crossed the stage in the elite band, Bliss, masses of Tribe masqueraders were prevented from entering the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain at yesterday’s Parade of the Bands.

ON CARNIVAL Monday, three songs — “Pump Yuh Flag”, “Miss Behave” and “No Pain” by “Mr Fete” Machel Montano, Fay-Ann and Neil “Iwer” George, respectively — were neck and neck in the early race for the Road March crown.

PRESIDENT George Maxwell Richards was spotted yesterday on stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah as Carnival reached its climax with masqueraders crossing the major judging point in full regalia and displaying high levels of energy.

ALTHOUGH there was a late start to parade of bands on Carnival Tuesday in San Fernando, masqueraders made up for lost time with exuberance and wild abandon. Ivan Kalicharan’s We Going Carnival was the first band to hit the streets at 11 am, parading before a panel of judges on High Street in San Fernando.

COMMISSIONER of Police (CoP) Dwayne Gibbs yesterday heaped praise on members of the public including masqueraders and also members of the TT Police Service for a job well done in ensuring the Carnival festivities were relatively incident free.

The St Lucia Athletics Association (SLAA) staged the Independence Invitational over the weekend at the George Odlum Stadium/Hospital. Athletes competed in the following categories over the two days. Under 13 Male and Female, Under 15 Male and Female, Under 17 … Continue reading →

Exercise and your Complexion Written by: Emma Anius The beauty industry is a multi-billion dollar business taking advantage of our insecurities promotingbeauty ideals that are almost impossible to achieve. This encourages everyone to be so consumed with how they look … Continue reading →

At 12pm on Tuesday Security Minister Victor Philip La Corbiniere was in an emergency meeting with the hierarchy of the Saint Lucia Police Force. The press was summoned to the meeting by the public relations of the force then subsequently … Continue reading →

I am heading out to lunch on a typically glorious June Friday in California when my office phone starts to ring. Should I answer? A colleague at Weider Publications thinks I should. All week I?ve been waiting to hear from … Continue reading →

It was almost as if he knew all along it was coming?another visa issue to remind of the precedent set in respect of Richard Frederick?s election-time revocation. Over and over he had challenged the special treatment being handed the Central … Continue reading →

(Barbados Nation) Late Prime?Minister David Thompson?s law firm received a whopping Bds$3.3 million in legal and retainer fees from CLICO International Life Insurance Limited (CIL), but the fees were...

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The Guyana Sugar Corporation today said that a strike at its bagging and packaging location at Blairmont has delayed its ability to meet marketing commitments to sister Caricom states. Beset by debt...

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(Jamaica Observer) A National Security Policy to tackle the country’s ballooning crime rate with an intent to reduce murders from the current three per day to less than one over the next five...

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AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, today killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an...

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(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has come out in strong support of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who on Monday was chastised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for...

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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Note: This post is FULL of links out to other pages that offer more details for your information. Be prepared to click on a lot of links You will learn more than you expect about People to People Cuba travel. OFAC has released a spreadsheet of Cuba related?

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal I haven?t posted much about Yoani Sanchez for a long time since she is making the main stream news so often, I figured anyone interested can read about her or follow her Twitter feed. Of course there is her Generation Y blog in English and

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Rob Sequin, publisher HavanaJournal.com and President of Havana Journal Inc. First, a little background on me? I am a registered Republican from Massachusetts. I voted for Romney for Governor and I would have voted for him for Governor had he run for a second term. On Willard Milton ?Mitt? Romney? In my opinion, Mitt has been running for President for MANY years. He ran for Congress against Ted Kennedy in 1994 then organized the 2002 Winter Olympics to get?

Title by Rob Sequin, publisher of HavanaJournal.com and article by Erika Bolstad of McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. House committee will investigate travel programs to Cuba offered by the Smithsonian Institution under a Obama administration?

BBC Caribbean's final week of broadcasting at the end of an era which started with World War Two programming.

Baby Doc hospitalised, operations at TCI airport expected to resume after sickout - and more.

In pictures: A lookback at the years of BBC Caribbean and West Indian broadcasting to the Caribbean region.

West Indies crush woeful Bangladesh

Our Carnival picture gallery begins with Monday's fun J'ouvert as Dominicans take to the streets.

Pierre was in the next-door country of Dominican Republic when the January 2010 earthquake destroyed half of Port-au-Prince and killed at least 200,000 of his fellow Haitians, including his wife and his mother.

International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986.

The Caribbean nation of Haiti, still struggling to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake, is once again trying to cope with the sexual abuse of minors by U.N. peacekeepers - for the third time in five years.

The image of United Nations peacekeeping operations has become seriously tarnished in recent years, say some independent experts who monitor the U.N. missions around the world.

Eighteen-year-old "Kettlyne", a Haitian orphan living in the rubble-strewn Croix Deprez camp ? one of the many remaining tent-cities that houses refugees from the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake ? is unable to feed her three-year-old daughter.

MIAMI, FL-- - Caribbean Casino Gaming Corp. is pleased to update its shareholders and supporters of recent activity. The Company's CEO, Steven Swank, reports that he has been working non-stop on 6 major ...

Royal Caribbean (NYSE:RCL - News), following the recent sinking of its peer cruise ship, we are cautious about the sector in the near term. This disaster shook the cruisers' confidence, thereby sharply reducing the ...

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