AN Old Harbour man who in 2019 killed the 17-year-old mother of his child and buried her in his duck pen before going on the lam, yesterday tearfully apologised to her parents after he was sentenced to 14 years and four months beh...

As undertakers and relatives of deceased people anticipate with dread the impending two-week ban on funerals and burials, Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has made clear that the Government is not inclined to bow to any ...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — Young Javier Forrester, the now 11-year-old bone cancer patient whose mother recently made an appeal for help, is well on his way to receiving a prosthetic leg.

GRAVEDIGGERS and builders at the Dovecot Memorial Park and Crematory and the MeadowRest Memorial Gardens in St Catherine are worried that their livelihoods will be hit hard as a result of Government's order to ban funerals and bur...

With its latest study showing that children in the Caribbean and Latin America have been out of the classroom longer than their peers across the world, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warne...

Two senior academics are convinced that if the education deficit at the primary and secondary levels, spawned by the novel coronavirus pandemic, worsens, Jamaica will be saddled with a new wave of criminals and miserable citizens....

Dear Editor, Those who attend church who voted for Andrew Holness in the last general election must regret that move today.Just this week I took a picture of a crowd outside a tax office.

Residents display placards outside the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) office at Portmore Mall, St Catherine, yesterday in protest against the company's plan to close the location. In response to the protest JPS issued a news...

Today is the 64th day of 2021. There are 301 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1946: Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Miss...

Two weeks after donating a thermometry and disinfection machine to May Pen Hospital in Clarendon telecommunications engineering and energy solutions company Konnex Services Limited yesterday presented the Jamaica Constabulary Forc...

The York Castle High School Alumni Association recently donated 150 tablets to students of the St Ann-based institution after reports by the principal of low online engagement by students. The initiative was taken on by alumni ass...

THE Caribbean Community (Caricom) will this year be seeking a secretary general to replace the retiring Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.In his opening remarks at the recent 32nd Intersessional Meeting of Caricom Heads of Government, the...

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Christopher Townsend is preparing to vigorously defend 44-year-old Royan Harris of Dumfries, St Thomas who was charged by narcotics detectives on Tuesday with breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act.Harris, who is bald...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Tech start-ups across the Caribbean are now one step closer to accessing the world-class instructors, seasoned mentors, and potential investors needed to scale up their businesses and improve their ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Two Jamaican scholars — Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris — both professors emeriti of The University of the West Indies (UWI) are the 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Protesters wear protective gear during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. (Photo: AFP)  

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) – The ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) has reacted angrily after the Senate rejected a controversial law to legalise cannabis, which will now be sent back to the House of Assembly in this British...

NEW YORK, United States (A P) — Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout. It's a familiar routine for many — and indicative of habits that contribute to a global food waste problem that ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — Law enforcement was on high alert yesterday around the US Capitol after intelligence uncovered a “possible plot” by a militia group to storm the iconic building again, two mon...

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Councillor for the Santa Cruz Division Christopher Williams is urging the Government to step up its pace and investment in the national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system, Jamaica...

GORDON “Butch” Stewart has joined the pantheon of St Lucian stars in posthumously receiving that country's third highest honour, the St Lucia Cross (SLC).The award celebrates the late Sandals Resorts International (SRI...

THE roll-out of the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme has been set back by at least a week, as the shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines that were to arrive from India today has now been rescheduled.

PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Jasford Gabriel has welcomed the inclusion of educators in the first batch of persons targeted for the COVID-19 jab even as the entity is engaging in another round of canvassing...

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The three people who were charged with murder in relation to the November 26, 2020 stabbing death of 63-year-old businesswoman Marcia Chin-you had their bail extended when they appeared in the Manche...

NEW United States President Joseph Biden's plans to secure delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all Americans by May got the thumbs up yesterday in Parliament, as a positive for the ailing Jamaican economy. ...