Zacca: Jamaica heading for economic crisis without IMF deal
By CAMILO THAME Business Coordinator [email protected] Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) President Christopher Zacca says Jamaica will be diving deep into an economic crisis if the country continues to be without an International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement. What’s more,…
CONCACAF and Sportsnet reach agreement for exclusive broadcast rights in Canada
Multi-year, Multi-property Deal Secures Major Exposure and Promotion for Pan-Regional Events MIAMI, FL (Thursday, January 10, 2013) – The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and Sportsnet announced today that they have reached a multi-year agreement for broadcast…
Shooting at Taft High School in California
A gunman has shot two people at a high school in California, police have said. One victim suffered a “major injury” and was taken to hospital in an air ambulance, officers said. The other victim suffered a “minor injury” in…
The tourists held by Greek police as illegal migrants
By Chloe Hadjimatheou BBC News, Athens Greek police have stepped up efforts to catch illegal immigrants in recent months, launching a new operation to check the papers of people who look foreign. But tourists have also been picked up in…
Kurdish PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz shot dead in Paris
Three Kurdish women activists – including a co-founder of the militant nationalist PKK – have been found dead with gunshot wounds in a Kurdish information centre in Paris. The bodies of Sakine Cansiz and two others were found on Thursday….
German actor Klaus Kinski ‘abused his daughter Pola’
By Patrick Jackson BBC News The elder daughter of the late German film star Klaus Kinski, Pola, has accused her father of sexually abusing her between the ages of five and 19. She told a German magazine she had broken…
Two killed in Dakar rally crash involving British team
Two people have been in killed in Peru in a head-on collision involving a support vehicle for the Dakar rally. The victims were travelling in a taxi which hit a Land Rover from a British team of injured army veterans….
Jamaican funeral home bearer robbed at gunpoint
Rasbert Turner, Jamaica Star Online Writer Investigators from the Linstead Police Station, St Catherine, were kept busy yesterday after criminals made off with more than $1 million. Police reports are that a bearer employed to a funeral home was on…
Pakistan blasts: ‘Dozens killed’ at Quetta snooker hall
Twin blasts at a snooker hall in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta have killed at least 56 people and injured more than 100, police say. Many of the casualties were caused by the second blast as police and media…
Butch’ Stewart’s advice to [Jamaican] Gov’t
From Jamaica Observer Big airlines itching to fly to Ian Fleming Airport JAMAICA’S most successful businessman has some common sense advice on how the Jamaican Government can stimulate the country’s economy, in a year expected to be one of the…
