The trial of a businessman who cops claim was among a group of armed thugs who engaged them in a fierce gun battle in 2023 collapsed in court yesterday after a number of crucial admissions by police witnesses.

Hanover Custos Lennox Anderson-Jackson has labelled the observance of Labour Day as a powerful symbol of service, sacrifice, nation building, and community spirit, and he wants Jamaicans to treat it with the utmost seriousness and not just as another holiday.

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness on Tuesday confirmed that the Western Children’s Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, wouldill be named in honour of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who conceptualised the facility. Holness made the declaration on Tuesday during a ceremony at 1F North Street in downtown Kingston where the main building of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security was renamed the Portia Simpson-Miller Building during Workers’ Week observances.

Despite Havana’s reported assurances of normalcy, a crippling infrastructure collapse has left Jamaican medical students in Cuba facing severe hardships, including the reduction in teaching sessions, threatening both their career training and mental health.

President Donald Trump will hold a Cabinet meeting at the White House, canceling a plan for a session at Camp David.

Old Glory Blue? American Flag Blue? Let's reflect on all the shades, while a federal judge mulls «aesthetic injury» in Trump's latest decorating flourish.

Strikes were reported in seven municipalities of the region

According to Director of the Department for Partnership with Africa at the Russian Foreign Ministry Tatyana Dovgalenko, countries that are friendly to Russia and Sahel Confederation states lie in the epicenter of the terrorist threat

Former US President Joe Biden is suing the US government in an attempt to block the release of interviews with his ghostwriter Read Full Article at RT.com

The Ukrainian strike on a college in Starobelsk was Zelensky’s revenge on former compatriots who chose Russia, Moscow has said Read Full Article at RT.com

When Shirley-Anne and Russell Hodgson received £72,000 from Scottish Widows on two life insurance policies set up by his mother in 1972, they were delighted.

Alexander Alimov noted that SpaceX is a Pentagon contractor and makes no secret of this fact

As of 10:00 AM Moscow time, the MOEX and RTS indices were down 0.17%, to 2,575.97 and 1,133.18 points, respectively

According to the agency, particular attention was paid to the new tactical cruise missile, which will be adopted by long-range artillery brigades in the southern border region

However, the Pentagon’s move does not indicate imminent strikes, the broadcaster highlighted

The head of state wished all Muslims good health, success, and all the best

John Mamatui est décédé le 25 mai en Suisse, des suites d'une altercation à la gare de Monthey. Originaire de Oremu, il avait quitté Tahiti il y a cinq ans, dans l'espoir d'y construire «une vie meilleure».

They have been taken to hospital

The Impulse platform is used by the military in combat and transport missions

Drone debris had damaged windows in a residential building and five private homes in the Tuapse Municipality

The state corporation specified that «the Impulse BM-A fire support robots with AGS-30 or AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers mounted in special modules, as well as the Impulse-M logistics robots, are used on the front line»

Kiev even flaunts its ties with radicals, Tatyana Dovgalenko said

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As Britain continues to sizzle in record-breaking temperatures during a bank holiday heatwave, several A-listers will be keen to hit the beach to bask in the scorching sun.

Scientists have revealed why heat feels so much more intense in the UK - and say the high humidity and lack of facilities are largely to blame.

Hammed Danmole ran towards the blade-wielding teenagers while others scattered in horror at Burgess Park on Sunday, May 17.

In 2020, Thomas and Jenny Jackson proudly told how they had abandoned their careers to give their children a taste of the Good Life on a 13-acre plot in rural Somerset.

Robert Rycroft, 57, put up the huge steel-framed outbuilding in the garden of his home after years of devastating floods left them scrambling to move treasured possessions out of the water's path.

SINGAPORE - A woman who assumed greater responsibilities on the homemaking front so her husband could build his business has been granted a third of the couple's matrimonial assets, which amounts to $2.2 million.In judgment published on May 20, High Court Justice Dedar Singh Gill noted that the woman had directly contributed around 5.9 per cent, or $400,000, to the asset pool, while the man provided around $6.4 million.He said that the man, 45, bore most of the indirect financial contributions as he had greater financial capacity, and his supplementary credit card enabled the wife to pay for household expenses.Meanwhile, the wife, 44, assumed greater responsibilities on the homemaking front.She looked after their three children, aged nine to 16, oversaw their studies and managed the household, including the supervision of their helper.«It is also notable that the wife supported the husband's career, having resigned from her job to commence work at the husband's company,» the judge said.

Pump prices in Singapore fell ahead of Hari Raya Haji as two fuel companies — Caltex and Shell — posted adjustments to its prices for diesel on Tuesday (May 26).In a price board update published at 4.30pm, Shell announced a 5-cent reduction to the price of its diesel. The move was mirrored by Caltex at 8pm the same day.Both companies kept their petrol prices unchanged.The last rounds of price movements were recorded on three consecutive days between May 20 and May 22.Following the latest round of adjustments, the price of diesel now ranges from $2.76 at Smart Energy, to $4.42 at Esso.

A Hong Kong school principal has been suspended from his duties amid an ongoing probe into his conduct, after a video of him swearing at two security personnel in Singapore went viral.Lee Cheuk-hing, principal at San Wui Commercial Society Secondary School in Tuen Mun, had told two security guards to «shut up» during a parking dispute at Safra Jurong on May 22.He was also filmed pulling faces and uttering profanities at the personnel.A member of the school board told Hong Kong media outlet HK01 on Tuesday (May 26) that the suspension was ordered after Lee and other teachers who were on the study trip submitted their statements on the matter.«I think the board as a whole feels that the principal's words and actions did not meet public expectations,» the publication quoted independent board member Edmund Wong as saying.[embed]https://www.tiktok.com/@asiaone/video/7643706282188360961[/embed]The school also issued an apology for the incident which caused «public concern and unease».

​​A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi pronounced the verdict on Wednesday after reserving judgment this year in January following extensive hearings in the matter. The petitions had challenged the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise undertaken by the ECI, arguing that the process went beyond the powers granted to the poll body under Article 326 of the Constitution, the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and the rules framed under it.