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Schoolboys dragged from vehicle, shot dead execution style Schoolboys dragged from vehicle, shot dead execution style PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Masked gunmen shot and killed two students of the Success Laventille Secondary School here after dragging them out of a vehicle on Thursday. Police said De-neil Smith, 17, and Mark Richards, 15, were gunned down less than an hour after classes ended, bringing the number of people murdered here so far this year to 33. The two boys were in the company of other students when the gunmen killed them. Education Minister Anthony Garcia, who is in Jamaica attending a meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the University of the West Indies, told a local newspaper that he was horrified at the executions. “I am truly shocked and appalled over this (crime),” Garcia told Newsday. “I can only describe what I have heard as barbaric.” Garcia said, adding, “I do not want to believe that our students, going home after their

Re-elected president of the People’s National Party Women’s Movement (PNPWM), Jennifer Edwards yesterday warned that the women of the movement would be not be paying any fees for their children to attend school come September. “Well I am a person who likes to believe my leader and follow my leader and the prime minster of Jamaica has told us that education is free, free, free, so the women of the PNPWM are sending their children to school in September without any fee, of any kind, under any guise. “I don’t want to hear that it is not auxiliary fee, it is developmental fee, it is a package fee, it is some other fee. They said no fee, so no fee it will be,” said Edwards in an impassioned address to the PNP Women’s Conference at the University of the West Indies, in Kingston. Edwards advised the women: “Use your money to buy books for your children, use your money to ensure that your children are fed... The prime minister has said that you are not to pay any school fee. F

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Poor African-American men in the United States face nearly three times the risk of dying as black men above the poverty line, according to research published on Monday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine are based on a study of healthy aging in diverse neighborhoods that recruited 3,720 participants, including black and white men and women of various incomes. Their average age was 48. African-American men in poverty saw a 2.7 times higher risk of death than African-American men living above poverty status, the researchers found. The main causes of death were heart disease and cancer. The same disparity was not seen among white men. Poor white males faced about the same risk of dying as white men above the poverty line, the study found. Among women, both blacks and whites in poverty were about twice as likely to die young as those who were not poor. The study, led by Alan Zonderman of t

Jamaica Tallawahs will be aiming to make it three in three from their home games in the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 (T20) tournament when they take on the defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders at Sabina Park this evening. The game is scheduled to begin at 8:00 pm. After securing two comprehensive wins over the weekend, the Tallawahs are on nine points from six games, one point behind the Guyana Amazon Warriors, who continue to lead on 10 points from seven games. The Knight Riders — formerly Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel — are third on six points. On Friday the Tallawahs got by Amazon Warriors by five wickets, and produced another dominant display to register a comprehensive 108-run victory over St Kitts and Nevis Patriots a day later. In their last outing, the Knight Riders comfortably defeated former champions Barbados Tridents by seven wickets at Kensington Oval. Chris Gayle, the captain of the Jamaica franchise, is optimistic that the

The man identified as the killer of three US police officers in Baton Rouge had posted videos complaining at police treatment of African Americans and urging them to "fight back". One of Gavin Long's videos stresses he is not linked to any group but is "affiliated with justice". The ex-Marine, 29, was killed by police during the attack on Sunday morning. Tension has been high since police shot dead a black man in Baton Rouge two weeks ago. That death - and a second police shooting in Minnesota - sparked protests across the US and triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five officers in the city of Dallas. Responding to the latest killings, President Barack Obama called upon all Americans to unite and refrain from divisive language. Louisiana State Police said on Monday that they had now positively identified Long as the gunman via fingerprints and said he had been "certainly seeking out police". Col Mike Edmo