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Suspect in UnitedHealth murder to fight extradition
10 December 2024ALTOONA, Pennsylvania – The 26-year-old man accused of gunning down UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in Manha...
BARVEN under fire over hike in coconut water prices
10 December 2024Executive director of the Barbados Empowerment Consumer Network, Maureen Holder. (FILE) Share post: The Barbados Consume...
Call to ban first-cousin marriages in United Kingdom
10 December 2024A Conservative former minister has called for first-cousin marriage to be banned in the UK. Introducing the proposals in...
Tokyo to implement four-day workweek to boost birth rates
10 December 2024Tokyo will implement a four-day workweek for government employees next year to encourage young people to get married and...
UN marks Human Rights Day with message
10 December 2024Human rights are under assault, warns United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. He raised the concern recent...
Japanese survivors of atomic bombs honoured with Nobel Peace Prize
10 December 2024Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo on Tuesday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Japanese survivors of the two atomic bom...
School Christmas break starts next week
10 December 2024Ministry of Education Elsie Payne Complex Share post: The Michaelmas School Term (Term I) comes to an end this week, as ...
Jay-Z accused with Diddy in lawsuit of raping girl, 13, in 2000
09 December 2024US rapper Jay-Z has hit back at a lawsuit which alleges that he, along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, drugged and raped a ...
Haiti gang kills 110 people accused of witchcraft
09 December 2024At least 110 mostly elderly people have been brutally murdered by gang members in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, a...
Commercial banks lending more
09 December 2024Commercial banks have expanded their lending to the business community over the last year and a half and The Barbados Ba...
