KINGSTON, Jamaica — Global oil prices fell below US$75 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since the Iran war began, easing fears of a major supply shock but leaving Jamaican motorists and businesses to wait longer to know how much of the decline will reach local fuel prices. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell as much as 3.1 per cent to US$74.76 a barrel in London, its lowest...

PARIS, France (AFP) — French health authorities have launched contact-tracing efforts after confirming the country's first case of Ebola on Wednesday, a doctor who had flown back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak. The case is the first of the deadly haemorrhagic fever identified outside the African continent during the current outbreak, which has also affected Uganda. It is the first time France has...

LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — The United Kingdom (UK) Government says more than 180 gangs with various sizes and reaches operate throughout Trinidad and Tobago with the most prominent of which are the Muslims and Rasta City. “Gangs are mainly present in marginalised urban areas, particularly in and around the capital, Port of Spain, and the east-west corridor in Trinidad,” according to a report issued by the Home Office, adding that...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) — The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the region received US$194.2 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, or 1.7 per cent more than in 2024. But ECLAC in its latest report said that in a scenario of great uncertainty and heightened global tensions, the results were uneven across destination countries and sectors. ECLAC said that the relative weight of FDI...

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