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(Jamaica Gleaner) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and cervical cancer are now covered under the National Health Fund’s (NHF) card programme, the government agency has announced.

Social media activist Melissa Atwell Holder, better known as Melly Mel, was granted a bond today  by Immigration Judge Francis Mwangi after being detained by U.S.

The Alliance For Change (AFC), through its Leader Nigel Hughes, has  written to U.S.

(Reuters) – Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison 0001.HK will not sign a deal next week to sell its two port operations near the Panama Canal to a BlackRock-led group, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, amid growing pressure from Beijing.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping urged a gathering of multinational CEOs today to protect global industry and supply chains, as Beijing seeks to assuage foreign firms’ concerns over the Chinese economy’s health amid threats of more U.S.

(Reuters) – A powerful earthquake centred in Myanmar rocked Southeast Asia today, killing several people and causing extensive damage, with rescuers in Bangkok searching for 81 people in the rubble of a collapsed building.

(Trinidad Guardian) For now, the Dragon Gas deal is not dead.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Manchester businessman Jason Neil ended in an open verdict yesterday, with the jury unable to determine whether his death was a suicide or murder.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio  today said he wants countries to have alternatives to Chinese infrastructure, adding that he wants to ensure the U.S.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio today said that it would be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if it attacked Guyana or ExxonMobil’s assets in the Atlantic and it will not end well for them.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today announced that it is conducting joint maritime exercises with the United States Navy this week in this country’s waters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration has directed two intelligence agencies to train their satellite surveillance capabilities on the U.S.-Mexico 

(Trinidad Guardian) United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday called on Prime Minister Stuart Young to support moves against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro’s administration during a bilateral meeting in Kingston, Jamaica.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian farming billionaire Vadim Moshkovich was remanded in custody for two months by a Moscow court on Thursday after his detention on suspicion of large-scale fraud, the highest-profile arrest in years of a major businessman in Russia.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A majority of judges on Brazil’s Supreme Court reviewing charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro today voted for him to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government after he lost a 2022 election.

This motor lorry toppled on the Supply Public Road, East Bank Demerara today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Trump administration has signalled to regional leaders that it has little interest in discussing the Cuban medical mission programme when Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in the Caribbean today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Appeal has overturned a judge’s decision to uphold a novel constitutional challenge over this country’s homophobic buggery and serious indecency laws.

UISEONG COUNTY, South Korea,  (Reuters) – The death toll in the wildfires raging across South Korea’s southeastern region rose to 24 and the pilot of a firefighting helicopter was killed when the aircraft crashed today, as the country battles some of its worst forest fires in decades.

Rubio to discuss energy security, illegal migration in Caribbean trip WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S.