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OTTAWA – “Rape” is a loaded term. But it’s one a senior cabinet minister thinks should be brought back into use. Vic Toews, Canada’s public safety minister, suggested Tuesday he will re-examine bringing back the […] […]

A music video shot in Jamaica by international recording artiste Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham, featuring dancehall heavyweight David ‘Mavado’ Brooks, has prompted Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett to warn local acts to be careful about the […] […]

The life of yet another Jamaican child has been snuffed out by gunmen who continue to blaze a bloody trail across the island. Nine-year-old Moesha Campbell, a student of the St Peter Claver Primary School, […] […]

SEVEN children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 others were injured in an attack at a kindergarten in northern China today, state media reported, citing local officials. The official Xinhua […] […]

Rocked by the shooting of one of the nation’s more popular dancehall singers, members of Jamaica’s entertainment community are declaring it time for artistes to stop glorifying gunmen. Singers, deejays and others flocked the clock […] […]

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Wayne Cummings, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), has called on Government to break its bond with criminals for the sake of the citizenry and the many […] […]

A MAN dubbed the hot chocolate rapist was jailed today for nine years by a Melbourne judge who said his crimes were “offensive, repugnant and intelorable in any society”. Judge Paul Lacava told Harry Barkas, […] […]

THE bodies of a groom and two members of his wedding party were found in the back of a truck four days after they were snatched at gunpoint as they left the church in the […] […]

Woman was stabbed multiple times in the neck Known to her friends as Rose, Li-Yuan Liu was working at her dry-cleaning store Monday, as she had almost every day for the last 13 years, when […] […]

OTTAWA—Criminals convicted of sexually abusing children or of three serious offences would be permanently ineligible for pardons under new reforms proposed today by the Conservative government. The bill would also drop the word “pardon” and […] […]