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KFC just dropped its first location in St. Thomas at the Morant Bay Urban Centre after the parish waited forever for the chain to show up. The restaurant created over 50 jobs and cost more than $350 million to build, and locals started camping out from 2 am to be first in line when doors opened...

Jamaica just locked down $6.7 billion in disaster financing after Hurricane Melissa ripped through the island, and Prime Minister Andrew Holness told parliament the speed was basically unheard of. The package came from a bunch of international lenders working together, and the country already...

Jamaica's Banana Board is cutting checks worth J$20 million to 116 farmers who got wrecked by Hurricane Melissa back in October. General Manager Janet Conie said the money helps growers buy fertilizer and restart production after the Category Five storm torched banana fields across the country...

Five Jamaicans just scored Fulbright scholarships to hit up grad school in America. Daniel Jennings is heading to Rice for environmental science, Elton Johnson wants to study dancehall culture at Florida Atlantic, Dr Shennae Miller is doing public health at Emory and Johns Hopkins, Abigail...

The Caribbean is about to see remittances jump by 9.2% this year, with total flows hitting around $20.9 billion, according to a fresh report from the Inter-American Development Bank. The Dominican Republic is absolutely crushing it with $11.9 billion expected, which is more than half the whole...

Grenada dropped its fattest budget ever at EC$1.96 billion, which is about EC$47 million more than last year. Finance Minister Dennis Cornwall said the whole thing is covered, even with an EC$309.8 million deficit that gets handled through government deposits and some borrowing. The money goes...

Belize just got its first woman running a major political party after Tracy Panton took over the United Democratic Party and became opposition leader. She got sworn in after some pretty wild internal drama last year that had everyone thinking the whole thing might collapse. Panton called the...

Haiti's transition council just pushed through an electoral law that's supposed to get presidential voting back on track after almost a decade without one. The nine-member group approved the framework despite three voting members skipping out, and observers think those no-shows were trying to...

Police grabbed five people after a 27-year-old DJ turned up dead in a flooded pit in Katakwi. The victim got identified as Patrick Elungat, and cops say the whole thing went down over some relationship drama with a woman who also got arrested. The suspects are Emmanuel Omongin, Stephen Obungan...

M23 rebels and Congo's military went at it hard across South Kivu, with battles breaking out in Katogota-Luvungi, Kaziba-Haut Plateau, Tchivanga-Hombo, and Kasika-Mwenga. Both sides are pointing fingers about who started the mess, and civilians are bailing out of the area fast. M23's...

Bobi Wine is calling out the police chief for making up stories about his campaign being violent and breaking rules. The NUP candidate says security forces are dressing up fake supporters to start trouble, and then they use those incidents as an excuse to crack down on his actual rallies around...

Museveni rolled up to Bushenyi and told everyone they better vote NRM if they want things to stay chill. He dragged officials stealing from the Parish Development Model program and said anyone messing with anti-poverty cash is getting handled. The first lady and a bunch of local politicians were...

Congo's military and M23 rebels are blaming each other for new fighting that popped up right before everyone's supposed to sign a peace deal in Washington. The army said Rwandan troops and M23 hit their spots in South Kivu, calling it a straight-up violation of the ceasefire that America and...

Tanzania's president basically said the wild election protests were actually a coup attempt against her government. Samia Suluhu Hassan grabbed almost 98% of the vote amid fraud claims, and she told a council that the chaos wasn't random anger but a planned takedown with local and foreign...

Rwanda and the DRC are about to ink a peace deal brokered by Trump, with both presidents heading to Washington to make it official. The White House confirmed that Paul Kagame and Felix Tshisekedi will be signing an agreement meant to stop the fighting between Congolese forces and the M23 rebels...

Uganda's chess scene just got a leadership shake-up after Andrew Bakiza won the presidency with 14 votes at the Annual General Meeting. The fresh executive team is taking over from Eng. Emmanuel Mwaka, who ran things for eight years, and they're supposed to guide the federation for the next four...

Uganda's women's netball squad is headed to Malawi after crushing it at the Celtic Cup in Glasgow. The She Cranes are playing in the Africa Netball Cup, which also works as a qualifier for the 2027 World Cup in Sydney. They got placed in Pool A with Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. The team is...

Namibia's president just made Esi Schimming-Chase the first woman to get a permanent spot on the Supreme Court. She's been working as a High Court judge for a few years, and she's actually been doing Supreme Court stuff on an acting basis since 2023. Before she became a judge, Schimming-Chase...

Namibia's health ministry just scored an extra N$184 million from the government, and they're using it to hire more than 2,000 healthcare workers. Health Minister Esperance Luvindao said the cash is meant to ease up crowding at hospitals around the country. Earlier this year, they figured out...

The Hangala family dropped Otavi Golden Maize into Namibian stores after spending over two decades growing corn at their Ombanje Farm near Otavi. Founder Leake Hangala says the whole point is keeping food production local so the country does not have to rely on imports while prices stay stable...