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The Trinidad and Tobago parliament started fighting over new legislation that lets property owners blast intruders with lethal force if they feel threatened during break-ins. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the bill delivers on campaign promises to tackle home invasions that previous...

Over 103,000 voters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines showed up to decide if Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves gets another term after running things since 2001. The 79-year-old is trying to lock down a sixth straight win for his Unity Labour Party against the opposition New Democratic Party, led...

Beenie Man gave a whole speech at his fiancée Camille Lee's birthday dinner, talking about how they finally hooked up around four years back, right before her special day. The dancehall artist told everyone at the family gathering that he had loved her for over two decades, but their romantic...

Shawn Storm hit social media to flex his birthday setup with his girlfriend after she hooked up their hotel room with red roses and decorations. The Portmore deejay walked through the spot laughing before stepping onto a balcony with ocean views at some resort. He told followers to dump anyone...

Dancehall artist Squash dropped a solidarity message for people back home dealing with Hurricane Melissa damage, even though he's locked up in federal prison doing 27 months on gun charges. The note got submitted as court evidence during his sentencing, but focused entirely on islanders...

A minibus packed with 19 people went sideways on the PJ Patterson Toll Highway in St. Catherine after what appears to be a tire blowout and maybe excessive speed. The Toyota Hiace was rolling towards Kingston when the driver lost control, smashed a guardrail and flipped the whole thing over...

Jamaica's parliament met up and decided to front JPS a 150 million dollar loan after the utility company said power restoration would drag on until spring without extra cash. Hurricane Melissa wrecked the grid and repairs need around 350 million total, with JPS saying the hardest hit zones would...

A Gordon Town guy got lit up with 33 M16 rounds back in 2020 while chilling at a shop in Lawrence Tavern after stopping by to chat with the shopkeeper. Adisa Alexander caught the bullets when gunmen rolled up and opened fire, leaving his left hand wrecked and putting him through 13 surgeries...

Defense lawyers for cop Noel Maitland floated the theory that missing influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson might have dipped from Jamaica on some sketchy banana boat or unregistered plane. Attorney Chadwick Berry grilled a passport agency director about whether they track people bouncing through...

Opposition leader Mark Golding went off at a press conference and basically said the JLP government has no clue what's happening in western Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa wrecked the place. PNP reps claim relief distribution is messy and uncoordinated, with supplies sometimes going to people...

Sex workers operating on Port Henderson Road in Portmore are freaking out because they lost touch with coworkers who moved west to St James and Westmoreland chasing better money. The women relocated to spots like Mt Salem and Savanna-la-Mar but their phones went dark when Hurricane Melissa...

Former Miss World 1993 Lisa Hanna is catching heat on Instagram after posting videos from New York, where she gets dressed for business meetings. The 50-year-old Jamaican ex-politician shared clips that racked up over 13k likes, with one showing her topless in a long shirt before pulling on...

Rwanda just dropped the contraceptive access age from 18 down to 15 without needing parents to sign off, and activists are calling it a massive W even though the government catches heat for being authoritarian on other stuff. Teenage pregnancy sits at five percent there, but feminist groups...

World Bank officials showed up at the gender ministry and basically gave Uganda props for dropping the age requirement for elderly cash assistance from 80 down to 65. Regional director Daniel Dulitzky said this was a massive policy win and pushed Uganda to build a national registry so they can...

The East African Court of Justice threw out an appeal from environmental groups trying to stop the crude oil pipeline project over climate and human rights concerns. Judges said the case missed the 60-day filing deadline under regional laws and backed the earlier dismissal from 2023. Four...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen gave The Observer an interview before the big Africa and Europe meeting in Angola, where she basically said both continents need each other more than ever despite the world getting messier since their first summit 25 years back. Brussels is pumping serious cash into...

Stats bureau dropped survey results showing citizens are way more confident about courts and prosecutors compared to seven years back, with trust jumping from somewhere in the 60s up past 80 percent for most legal institutions. The human rights commission basically doubled its approval rating...

Former Tororo Municipality lawmaker Sanjay Tanna is hanging up his political jersey and backing his kid, Shyam, for the parliamentary seat as an independent. The elder Tanna held the spot for two terms between 2006 and 2016 under NRM before stepping back, and he told supporters at a campaign...

Retired Supreme Court judge Esther Kisaakye is basically calling the tribunal investigating her a total sham and says Museveni set it up after she already bounced from the bench. She dropped a massive document laying out 25 reasons the whole thing is unconstitutional, pointing out she retired...

Amama Mbabazi is finally ready to spill the actual tea about the Kabamba barracks raid that kicked off the NRA bush war back in the 80s. The former prime minister dropped some correction receipts at the anniversary launch, saying 44 fighters attacked with just 27 guns instead of the 40 or 41...