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Jamaica's tourism minister told a crowd in Florida that the island should be good to go for visitors by mid-December after Hurricane Melissa wrecked the western side back in October. Edmund Bartlett was hanging out with tourism officials and diaspora groups in Broward County, saying hotel...

The guy who ran St. Lucia's opposition party just quit after getting absolutely wrecked in the election for the second time in a row. Allen Chastanet was the only United Workers Party candidate who managed to keep his seat while the ruling Labour Party grabbed 14 out of 17 spots in parliament...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange is paying respects to Alvaro Alonso Casserly, a business heavyweight who died after spending decades shaping corporate boards and community groups across the island. The guy sat on the JSE board for over a decade and basically never left the Jamaica Central Securities...

The US Secretary of State told a bunch of countries they need to throw more cash and troops at the Haiti security mission because Kenya can't handle the gang crisis alone. Marco Rubio was hanging out with Kenya's president at the State Department and basically said if just a handful of nations...

Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister told parliament the country pulled off a massive financial turnaround with a primary surplus hitting $254.9 million and an overall surplus of $116.3 million while presenting the 2026 budget. Gaston Browne said the government went from drowning in debt to...

The UK just rolled out a new framework that lets its overseas territories hammer out formal Partnership Compacts, and the British Virgin Islands might actually use this to get a better deal on how much London can meddle in local stuff. These agreements would spell out what both sides have to do...

Bill Clinton flew into Jamaica to check out the wreckage from Hurricane Melissa, a massive Category 5 storm that slammed the western part of the island and killed over 40 people while racking up more than a trillion Jamaican dollars in destruction. The former president met with government...

A magistrate in Soroti told the relatives of Dr. Godfrey Egwau to bring a legitimate death certificate by mid-month because the local council paperwork they turned in wasn't enough to make things official. The doc passed away at a cancer hospital in Kampala after getting hit with medical...

Hajji Bruhan Sserunga stood up at a rally and told everyone Museveni deserves another term despite his son Mubarak Munyagwa running against the president under a different party. The elder Sserunga helped NRA fighters back in the day and says he respects what the current government has...

Coach Paul Put named his 30-player roster for AFCON Morocco with nine guys coming from Uganda Premier League squads. Vipers playmaker Allan Okello cut along with teen sensation James Bogere, who turned heads at the U17 World Cup with Uganda Cubs. KCCA keeper Charles Lukwago got recalled despite...

A taxi tried passing a Fuso truck on the Kampala-Jinja highway near Bulumagi village, then panicked when oncoming traffic appeared and swerved straight into the truck it was overtaking. Both vehicles flipped after impact, and the Fuso spilled its cargo of booze all over the road. Driver Ntabazi...

Mulago National Referral Hospital surgeons pulled off Uganda's first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy on a 73-year-old dude, using tiny incisions and a camera instead of slicing him wide open. Lead urologist Badru Ssekitooleko said patients normally drop over 100 million shillings flying to...

Pearl Bank is sending a purple-suited Santa mascot to branches across Uganda to vibe with customers and hand out festive cheer as part of their rebrand from PostBank. Marketing head Priscilla Akora said the mascot matches their corporate purple color scheme and represents their commitment to...

Kampala cops grabbed 25 people during a sting operation along the Northern Bypass near Double Q after they were caught yanking phones from drivers and passengers stuck in gridlock. Police impounded eight motorcycles that the suspects apparently used to pull off the heists, and they collected...

Mbarara University of Science and Technology busted someone pretending to be a pharmacy student after she spent who knows how long sitting in lectures and blending in with actual enrolled people. Jacinter Hamba was using a fake student number and claiming she belonged to the medicine faculty...

Police stopped Bobi Wine from hitting campaign spots in Nwoya and Amuru after he allegedly tried switching up his route and heading toward the Elegu border instead. Security forces say the NUP candidate ditched the agreed-upon rally location that his team previously confirmed with authorities...

Lawyer Dennis Paulo Kavuma launched Gravitas Leadership Institute this year to help young Ugandans figure out what they actually want from life and build some kind of plan around it. The program targets everyone from high schoolers to career switchers and retirees who need direction, mixing...

The Public Relations Association of Uganda handed out trophies at their ninth annual awards ceremony at Protea Hotel in Kampala, with 13 winners getting recognized for creative communication work. Association president Irene Nakasiita said the event celebrates people who pushed boundaries in...

Museveni rolled into Bundibugyo, promising a cocoa processing plant that he says will create jobs and turn the district into an industrial hub similar to Namanve, which employs 24,000 workers. The area produces over 70% of Uganda's cocoa exports, and the president claims investors are locked in...

UN human rights boss Volker Türk is sounding alarms over hundreds of dead civilians in Sudan's Kordofan region, where the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces have been going at it since late October. At least 269 people got killed through airstrikes, shelling, drone hits, and...