Guidance counsellor at the Corporate Area-based Haile Selassie High School, Jacqueline Bryan, estimates that the school's gender ratio is a little under three boys to each girl in the student body of approximately 800.The high concentration of...
Members of the Waterford High School Science and Environment Club have hit upon a bright idea which they are optimistic will help to reduce their electricity bill, as well as have much wider applications beyond the walls of the St Catherine-based...
Since the beginning of the January semester, Sasheen Harding has been burdened with the stress of not paying a small portion of her fees at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus.The second-year applied chemistry major and psychology...
The police said last week that the actual number abducted had risen to more than 300 and that 276 remain in captivity. It said 53 students managed to escape their captors. None have been rescued.
Opposition activists and Western countries have condemned the elections as a sham as voting is expected to be held only in government-controlled territory.
The engine and four of the 20 coaches jumped the tracks near Roha station, 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of Mumbai, said police officer Ankush Shinde.
The disaster has exposed enormous safety gaps in South Korea's monitoring of domestic passenger ships, which is in some ways less rigorous than its rules for ships that handle only cargo.
Pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine yesterday released the seven Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) military observers and five Ukrainian assistants who had been held for more than a week.
Authorities have given up hope of finding alive 13 missing miners trapped under 20 metres of heavy debris after a gold mine collapsed in southwest Colombia.
Employers in the United States (US) added a sizable 288,000 jobs in April. Hiring in February and March was better than first thought while the unemployment rate plunged to 6.3 per cent from 6.7 per cent.
Rescue workers in Afghanistan have given up hope of finding any more survivors from a double landslide that is feared to have killed some 2,500 people.
ORANJESTAD, CMCThe head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), Dr James Hospedales, has declared the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean."By definition this is an epidemic since it represents an unusual number...
Florida (AP): People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly two feet (0.6 metres) of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours...
TORONTO (AP):Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is taking a leave of absence to seek help for alcohol after a report surfaced about a second video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine...
FLORIDA, (AP)A gas explosion at the jail in Pensacola, Florida, killed two people and injured more than 100 others, according to an Escambia County spokeswoman.The explosion happened around 11 p.m.
FLORIDA (AP)The House amended a bill yesterday to include language that would help immigrants who are unlawfully in the country to receive their law licences under certain conditions.The decision comes a month after the state Supreme Court ..
LAGOS (AP):A civil-society group says villagers are reporting that scores of girls and young women who were recently kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry Islamic extremists.A federal senator for the area in northeast Nigeria...
LONDON (AP):Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO)...
ATHENS (AP): Greece will achieve better-than-expected budget figures in 2014, but unemployment would only decline slowly over the coming four years, the country's finance ministry stated yesterday....
NAIROBI (AP):The rainy season is about to start in South Sudan, but war in the world's newest country has forced more than one million people to flee their homes, leaving few people to plant or harvest crops.
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union (EU) yesterday released the names of 15 new people it is targeting for sanctions because of their roles in the Ukraine crisis....
