KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police say 292 rounds of ammunition were seized following an intelligence-led operation on Friday, in Mountain View, Kingston.
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DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) — Ireland has voted to introduce gay marriage, public broadcaster RTE said Saturday, with the result from the referendum on the issue now certain.
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says preliminary forecasts indicate that the economies of regional countries will expand by nearly two per cent in 2014, mirroring an anticipated moderate acceleration in the economies of its major trading partners.
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Cleveland, United States (AFP) — A Cleveland officer who shot several rounds through a windshield from the hood of a car, killing two unarmed African Americans in 2012, was found not guilty of voluntary manslaughter Saturday.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, is heading a delegation to Jamaica where he is expected to participate in a conference sharing the lessons learnt over the past 10 years of the Court’s existence.
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BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A 65-year-old German woman, who already has 13 children, has given birth to quadruplets after undergoing an artificial insemination procedure in Ukraine, RTL television reported early on Saturday.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it is moving to assess the implementation of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited’s (JPS) Net Billing Programme. The two (2) year pilot programme was extended last May, as the system peak demand threshold was not met.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Officers within the public sector are to commence human rights training in June, as the Government advances plans to establish a National Human Rights Institute for Jamaica.
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TANHUATO DE GUERRERO, Mexico (AFP) – Mexican federal forces killed 43 suspected drug cartel members Friday during a three-hour-long gunfight in a ranch in a violence-torn western region, marking one of the drug war’s bloodiest battles.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Allegations that sections of the international community helped to engineer the outcome of general and regional elections have been dismissed by Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has described as a “shocking development” the resignation of a member of the Integrity Commission over the so-called “emailgate” scandal and is demanding his reinstatement to the Parliament.
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PROVEN Wealth recently donated of $1 million towards the Wolmer’s Boys’ auditorium, which was officially opened yesterday afternoon at the school in St Andrew. In photo (from left) are: Douglas Orane, trustee of Wolmer’s Boys’ School; Akeem Bennett, head boy; Dr Walton Small, principal; Michelle Tracey, assistant manager for marketing, PROVEN Wealth; and Chorvelle Johnson, President & CEO, PROVEN Wealth
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UN says deportation of J’can from Canada ‘cruel, inhuman’
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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (CMC) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee says Canada’s deportation of a Jamaican man with a mental disability who spent most of his life in Canada amounted to “cruel and inhuman treatment”.
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WASHINGTON, DC, USA (AFP) — Talks between the United States and Cuba failed to nail down an agreement on restoring diplomatic ties and will stretch into a new round, officials from both sides said yesterday.
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BAYEUN, Indonesia (AFP) — Boat people who have come ashore in Southeast Asia after harrowing journeys are delighted that Indonesia and Malaysia will give them temporary shelter — although some were baffled by an offer of sanctuary in a tiny African nation they had never heard of.
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