COLUMBIA (AP): Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wants to suspend taxpayer funding of new charter schools and ban those that are for-profit as part of his plan to overhaul public education that he released on...

VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis has urged foreign correspondents to humbly use the power of the press to search for the truth and give voice to the voiceless, calling journalism an important tool to counter hatred and...

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP): A Mississippi jury has awarded a total of more than US$3 million to five African-American strippers after a federal judge found the women worked under worse conditions than their white...

KAMPALA (AP): Until recently, the Ugandan pop star and opposition figure known as Bobi Wine could count on news crews trailing him. As his popularity grew in the past year, his activities were increasingly covered live by...

Driven by the warning echoed in the African proverb ‘The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people’, Dr Taniesha Burke is on a mission to strengthen parent-child relationships one household at a time....

VIENNA (AP): Austrian Vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache resigned Saturday after two German newspapers published footage of him apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a potential Russian benefactor....

China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) may have to shell out millions of dollars for damage after the National Water Commission (NWC) filed compensation claims for repairs to damaged water mains on ongoing...

WESTERN BUREAU: There is a climate of mistrust brewing between shareholders of the Port Royal Development Company Limited (PRDCL) and the Government over the proposed development of Port Royal as a resort town. The...

I caught a little bit of the Integrity Commission’s press conference on Monday. Then I read the document they circulated to the media. Remember, as I pointed out in last week’s column, these are good folks doing...

CHAKA-CHAKA SPELLING Thursday gone, Gleaner put out one front-page story wid dis ya headline: ‘A Real Threat – Rooms On The Beach Muckraking Could Scare Off Investors, Says Lee-Chin’. Ascorden to Gleaner,...

Give me some time to get to the case of the dead man who sent a letter to seek donations from the corporation which has more stories than a book of Grimm fairy tales. This week, I am licking my wounds over the World Track...

South Korea and Jamaica established diplomatic ties 57 years ago and have since been great bilateral partners, collaborating on many developmental cooperation projects of mutual benefit.

MUCH of our stress seems unavoidable, perhaps it's working conditions, our home environment or relationship issues, but at least one national level stressor — the daily commute — is definitely unavoidable.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — President Nicolas Maduro has welcomed the “beginning of talks” with the Venezuelan o pposition in Norway, after months of bloody clashes between the two sides.