A man who was abducted on Thursday and his car stolen was this morning rescued from a 55 feet deep pit in the Jones Avenue community of Spanish Town. Reports are that the man, whose name is being withheld, was held up by armed men who stole his...

Fifty-three year old Donovan Haywood, a fisherman, has died following a shark attack at sea on Saturday in Westmoreland. Reports are that Haywood, otherwise called 'Doggie', who lived at Darling Street in Savanna-la-mar in the parish...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade will commence operating from its new headquarters at 2 Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston, on Tuesday, May 4. The 11-storey building will accommodate 285 members of staff spanning 17 departments......

Jamaica on Saturday recorded five more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 784. The deceased are a 95-year-old woman from Trelawny, a 93-year-old female and an 83-year-old female, both from St Catherine, a 95-year-old woman from...

Police have seized approximately 345 pounds of compressed ganja at Ivor Cottage, Mountainside, Black River in St Elizabeth on Friday, April 30. Two men were arrested and charged in relation to the seizure. Reports are that about 6:00 a.m., during.....

LONDON -- Britain rushed to increase aid for India's teetering health care system on Sunday, promising more ventilators and expert advice as doctors grapple with a surge in coronavirus infections that is killing thousands of people a day...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- A Bermudan court has rejected an appeal for a lighter sentence by a Jamaican man jailed for 18 years for drug trafficking. Omar Davy, 40, who is from Mandeville in Manchester, was found guilty of smuggling US$765,700...

The Ministry of Education has announced new dates for the 2021 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations. Acting chief education officer, Dr Kasan Troupe, says June 15 and 16 have been identified for grade five students, and June 29 and 30 for...

The St Andrew North Police Division say they have arrested and charged thirty-one people for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act, after shutting down an illegal party that was being held at a car mart along Constant Spring Road on Thursday....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients early Saturday, as the country grappling with the worst outbreak yet stepped up a vaccination drive for all adults even as some states said they don...

Jamaica has recorded 199 new cases of COVID-19, increasing the national tally to 45,777. Of the new infections, 119 are women and 80 are men with ages ranging from five months to 95 years. With the new cases, the tally of active infections now...

Jamaica is slated to get a US$1.22-million grant from the Government of Japan in support of the country's coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme. The provision will fund the acquisition of cold chain equipment and capacity-building...

The Earthquake Unit is reporting that a minor tremor rattled sections of Jamaica last night. It says the 3.0 quake occurred about 8:46 p.m. The epicentre was 10 kilometres west of Buff Bay, Portland with a focal depth of 17 kilometres. We want to......

The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus. White House press secretary.....

Fire of unknown origin destroyed a section of the abandoned Bonnie View Plantation hotel in Port Antonio, Portland, shortly after 7:30 p.m Thursday. Residents living in the Bonnie View area reportedly saw smoke coming from a section of the hotel,......

India has set another global record with 386,452 daily coronavirus cases. The Health Ministry on Friday also reported 3,498 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 208,330. Experts believe both figures are an undercount, but it's...

Several staff member of the Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) Group were reportedly arrested and charged with breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act in New Kingston on Wednesday night. In a statement this morning, the company ...

PORTSMOUTH, United States (CMC) -- The United States Coast Guard said it had detained drug suspects and migrants, and seized a significant amount of drugs during patrols in the Caribbean Sea. The US Coast Guard said the Cutter Tampa returned...

LONDON (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have submitted a request to the European drug regulator for the approval of their coronavirus vaccine to be extended to include children 12 to 15 years old, in a move that could offer younger and less at...

A 32-year-old electrician has been charged with various offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He has been identified as Romaine Ricardo Jarrett of a Flower Hill District address in Montego Bay, St James. He has been charged with...