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September 19 01:05 PM
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September 19 12:24 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Two employees of a supermarket in St Elizabeth have been slapped with simple larceny charges after allegedly stealing five gal...
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September 19 12:11 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Police in St Elizabeth say they have recovered a Toyota Mark X motorcar that was stolen on Thursday, September 19, in Coker di...
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September 19 12:04 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The World Bank announced Thursday that it delivered a record $42.6 billion in climate change financing in the 2024 f...
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September 19 11:29 AM
BRIDGETOWN , Barbados (CMC) — The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has raised alarm over the increasing incidence of HIV among youn...
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July 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA FEDERAL Reserve Chair Janet Yellen yeterday said that the economic recovery is not yet complete, and for that reason the Fed intends t...
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July 15, 2014
SHANGHAI, China Alibaba and US-based entertainment company Lionsgate yesterday announced plans for a movie and television streaming service in mainlan...
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July 15, 2014
Johnson & Johnson yesterday reported a 13 per cent jump in second-quarter profit, fuelled mainly by strong sales of several new medicines. The results...
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July 15, 2014
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, USA Atlantic City's crumbling casino market disintegrated even further Saturday as the owners of the Trump Plaza casino sai...
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July 15, 2014
FRANKFURT, Germany European Central Bank head Mario Draghi said Monday that a stronger euro would put at risk the shaky recovery in the 18 countries t...
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July 15, 2014
LONDON, England — A June shopping spree drove an unexpectedly big increase in U.K. inflation that has fuelled expectations that the Bank of England ma...
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July 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA Fed up with US dominance of the global financial system, five emerging market powers this week will launch their own versions of the W...
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July 15, 2014
The Federal Reserve's latest take on the US economy put many investors into sell mode yesterday, sending stocks mostly lower after a brief upward turn...
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July 15, 2014
TOKYO, Japan THE Bank of Japan yesterday held fire on expanding its vast stimulus programme, saying the world's number three economy was recovering de...
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July 15, 2014
New York, USA — THIS is a town where people are so rich that a US$2 million home can be badly in need of renovation. A town where the thrift shop is s...
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July 15, 2014
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM THE incoming leader of Europe's most powerful bureaucracy is a master of the backroom deal -- and an outspoken and witty career poli...
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July 15, 2014
BRASILIA, Brazil Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday expressed support for the creation of a development ba...
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July 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA — US retail sales increased slightly in June, evidence that consumers remain cautious despite steady job gains this year. Retail sales...
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July 15, 2014
LONDON, England THE British pound spiked near a six-year high against the dollar yesterday after a surprisingly big increase in UK inflation fuelled e...
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July 15, 2014
Tennessee, USA Volkswagen plans to build a new seven-passenger SUV at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, adding about 2,000 factory jobs as it tri...
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July 15, 2014
MANILA, Philippines THE World Bank yesterday said that it and its private sector arm have committed concessional loans of up to US$4.2 billion to the ...
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July 12, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA - US business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic th...
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July 12, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea - LG Display Co has developed an 18-inch flexible display that can be rolled into the shape of a thin cylinder, a step toward makin...
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July 12, 2014
HAVANA, Cuba - It's not your typical used car lot. Just steps from the Florida Straits, dozens of vehicles sit covered in grime and baking in the Cari...
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July 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA — FEDERAL Reserve officials had differing views in June on the best way to signal to financial markets when they might raise a key sho...
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July 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, USA — CHINESE hackers broke into the computer networks of the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year with the intention of acces...
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July 10, 2014
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — NOW that Nicaragua has picked a path for a Chinese firm to dig a canal connecting the Caribbean and the Pacific, environmentalist...
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