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The new leader will contend with rising debt and high unemployment.

The territory faces a US$17.4 million deficit this year and an estimated US$90 million deficit next year.

The government of CARICOM countries have to devise programmes of recovery and growth linked to creative utilization of its resource endowment. Old ways of doing business are no longer viable.

The world famous white sand beaches “have been experiencing severe and irreversible shoreline and retreat” for more than four decades.

According to statistics, 1,093 Haitian migrants have already been apprehended here for the year.

The latest Jamaica Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll shows that the JLP and the PNP are in a statistical dead heat.

PEABODY, Massachusetts _ A woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be explosive. Rebecca Hains tells WCVB-TV the Transportation Security Administration agent took her cupcake, telling her its frosting was “gel-like” enough to constitute a security risk. The TSA has restrictions […]

With Los Angeles having a rough 2011, this admission-free event continues as a holiday gift to the people of the County every December 24 since 1959

In honor of the film’s 65th anniversary, the City Council declared Friday “It’s A Wonderful Life Day” in Los Angeles.

Authorities said the latest decapitation appeared to be related to an ongoing power struggle within the gang, which has been at war for years with the police and another group, the One Order gang.

The ‘new’ Lebron James & Company shutdown the NBA Champs Dallas Mavericks ith a 105-94 win; Lakers fell to Bulls, 88-87; Carmelo Anthony lifted the Knicks 106-104 over the Celtics;

Racist abuse in European football is nothing new, although most high-profile cases have involved abusive chants from supporters toward opposing players _ not on-field incidents.

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