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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. (iWN file photo)

PM has no grouse upending parliamentary tradition

Speaker of the House of Assembly Jomo Thomas, last Friday, questioned the insistence of Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and Sir Louis Straker to break with decades of parliamentary practice in…

21 May 2019 10:16PM

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Magistrate Bertie Pompey. (iWN file photo)

‘Cabbage’ charged with theft of sheep; magistrate recuses himself

21 May 2019 10:10PM

Cousins Kahwanna Simmons, 15, left, and Keenya Simmons, 13, have not returned home since leaving for school Monday morning.

Woman trying to locate missing granddaughters

21 May 2019 7:05PM

Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalve piloted the bill. (iWN file photo)

Electoral reform motion ‘contains poison pills’ for govt — Camillo

20 May 2019 4:37PM

World Bee Day -- Raising awareness on the role of bees and pollinators in food and agriculture. FAO headquarters 20 May 2019, Rome, Italy. (Photo: ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico.)

Falling bee numbers — a threat to global food security, nutrition

20 May 2019 4:25PM

Jamaica critical of regional disaster risk insurance

By Kenton X. Chance GENEVA (CMC) —Jamaica’s Local Government Minister, Desmond McKenzie, has expressed his displeasure with the operations of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF). “I maintain and…

20 May 2019 3:58PM

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