KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 22, CMC – Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging landowners with unused property in developed areas to consider selling it to the Government to help expand housing opportunities for vulnerable Jamaicans. Holness made the appeal on Wednesday during the handover of two-family housing units under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) in […]

By Randy Bennett BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 22, CMC – The Barbados Gems and Trinidad and Tobago’s Calypso Gems continued their unbeaten run in the Americas Netball World Cup Qualifiers with contrasting victories at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex on Tuesday. While the Gems needed a spectacular performance in the fourth quarter to edge past Saint Lucia […]

The RAF’s Chinook helicopters and A400M aircraft will be equipped so they can fight fires and are ready, when requested, to help crews across the UK battle blazes on remote moorland, steep hillsides and other hard-to-reach terrain. Firefighters on the front line in England will be boosted by additional specialist wildfire teams and state of the […]

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon delivered remarks as part of her “The Next 250: American Education” speaking series. The Secretary is delivering these speeches to highlight Trump Administration’s K-12 education, workforce, and higher education accomplishments, and to lay out the vision for the next 250 years of education in our nation. Secretary McMahon […]

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today investigative findings that Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSU Med) discriminated against white and Asian students in granting admission to its 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes. OSU Med’s discriminatory conduct violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race or […]

The Department of Justice announced today that it has secured the denaturalization of two individuals who illegally obtained U.S. citizenship by not disclosing their prior criminal activity. “Securing denaturalization is the final step to strip citizenship from those who conceal crimes or defraud the American people,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the […]

Today, the Department of State is expanding its campaign against corruption and narcotrafficking in our region.  These actions advance the commitments partners made at the Doral Summit in March and in the September 22 Shield of the Americas leaders’ statement. The Department is imposing visa restrictions on 21 individuals in Colombia under the policy announced […]

A government commissioned independent review into antisemitism in schools and colleges has been published today and has found that antisemitism is a significant and growing challenge for the education sector, with Jewish pupils, students and staff experiencing antisemitic abuse, harassment and discrimination in schools and colleges. The review, which was led by Sir David Bell, […]

SLC plays a critical role in enabling opportunity through the effective and efficient administration of the student finance system. As students settle into the new academic year we have reached an important milestone, in our delivery of first term maintenance loan payments to students and tuition fee payments to providers on their behalf. We have […]

Communities across the UK will be better protected against the growing threats of climate change, as the world’s first Climate and Nature Security Taskforce met for the first time this week. The taskforce will make independent recommendations to help shape government’s approach to tackling national and international climate security challenges, and to help ensure Britain […]