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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Bloodbath in Mexico – 43 killed in gunfight
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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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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Zimbabwe’s ruling party has expelled seven former top officials and suspended 13 others, an official announced yesterday, in an ongoing purge targeting allies of ex-Deputy President Joice Mujuru.
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OPPOSITION Spokesman on Science, ICT & Digital Society Development Dr Andrew Wheatley has asked the on the Government to immediately convene a Joint Select Committee of Parliament to consider ICT matters.
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A small group yestetday gathered in New Kingston on Friday to protest against the visit of US Special Envoy for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) persons.
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Christian group protests against visit of US LGBT envoy
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THE Ministry of Education has urged schools to desist from barring students from entering school compounds as punishment for lateness and breaches of the dress code.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar was released from a private hospital in south Trinidad on Monday night and ordered to rest after she had complained of feeling unwell earlier during the day.
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