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Responding to a United States government audit, Boeing says it will would work with employees found to have violated company manufacturing procedures to make sure they understand instructions for their jobs. The aircraft maker detailed its latest...

Politicians across Haiti are scrambling for power after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created. But elbowing their way into the race are powerful gangs that control 80...

Jamaica’s debt dipped at a pace that was ranked among the fastest in the world over a decade, according to rating agency Fitch. “It represents the third-largest decline in debt burden among all rated sovereigns over this period; only Ireland and...

The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent’s rich supplies of oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries, deals that have helped China gain control over...

Consumer prices in the United States picked up last month, a sign that inflation remains a persistent challenge for the Federal Reserve and for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, both of which are counting on a steady easing of price...

The prime minister of one of the larger Caribbean countries travels to East Africa to secure a police deployment that would help address runaway gang violence back home, where a recent attack on the national penitentiary freed 4,000 prisoners....

Most electronic systems that take on some driving tasks for humans don’t adequately make sure drivers are paying attention, and they don’t issue strong enough warnings or take other actions to make drivers behave, according to an insurance industry...

Real estate developer 138 Student Living Jamaica is again eyeing the University of Technology, Jamaica to grow its business. The developer of student housing currently operates only at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, where it...

Saudi oil giant Aramco reported that it made US$121 billion in profit last year, down from its 2022 record due to lower energy prices. The results still marked the company’s second highest ever result, Aramco said, as members of the OPEC+ alliance...

Equal opportunities for women remain an elusive goal, more distant than anticipated at this stage of development, and fraught with obstacles that appear formidable to overcome. In a startling announcement on March 4, 2024, the World Bank disclosed...

Recent rains have led to nearly $500 million in lost coffee crops. Farmers lost up to 30 per cent of their beans, which were often too fat to hang on to the tree limbs after getting soaked by continuous downpours. “You couldn’t get pickers to go...