The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is reporting that some 525 streetlights have been stolen across the island since the start of 2021. The company said the highest incidences of theft occur in Portmore, Linstead and Guy's Hill in St...

Over $30 million was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries through training and capacity building to 23 beekeeping projects island-wide in 2020. Additionally, in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry, the......

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies after only expecting seven, Mali's Minister of Health said Wednesday. The 25-year-old Halima Cisse gave birth to the babies by cesarean section on Tuesday in Morocco...

Jamaica on Tuesday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 794. The deceased is a 94-year-old woman from St Elizabeth. Three more cases have been recorded as coincidental deaths, increasing the tally to 120. And two more fatalities......

TORONTO -- Canada's health regulator has authorised Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for ages 12 and older. Dr Supriya Sharma, chief medical adviser at Health Canada, on Wednesday confirmed the approval of the vaccine for ages 12 to 15....

ATLANTA, CMC - The United States Customs and Border Protection agency says it has intercepted a Georgia woman arriving at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on a flight from Jamaica with cocaine. "Upon closer...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is calling on persons to make proper hygiene a daily routine to prevent deadly germs and other illnesses. Making the call on World Hygiene Day, to be observed on May 5, chief nursing officer in the Ministry,...

Pastor of the City of Refuge Endtime Prophetic Ministries Church in Windsor, St Ann's Bay, Christene McLean, pleaded guilty to two breaches under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) when she appeared in the St Ann Parish Court on Tuesday....

National midfielder Leon Bailey's best statistical Bundesliga league season has earned him a nomination for the Bundesliga team of the season. Bailey, 23, is among 10 attackers who have been shortlisted, which include Bayern Munich players Serge....

Despite their years of experience in deep sea fishing, nothing could have prepared Christopher 'Belle' Forrester and Keniel 'Redman' Watson for the shark attack that claimed the life of their friend last Saturday. The attack, that took place off.....

Sports marketing consultant Tanya Lee Perkins says that she expects high demand for online subscribers for next week's ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships (Champs) as the competition is set to take place behind closed doors......

Rodrick Wilson, 45, who gave authorities two Clarendon addresses, was remanded yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of simple larceny when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. It was reported that on April 25 about 4:35 p....

A man who was convicted of malicious destruction of property in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday is insisting that he is in a relationship with the complainant's mother. Clifford 'Ratty' Bryan, 48, was ordered to pay $160,000......

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that Jamaica is "not yet out of the danger zone" as he announced that the existing COVID measures would remain largely unchanged. Arguing that lifting the restrictions too soon could spell disaster for....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said some persons appear as if they have been "infected with the virus of violence" which makes them more dangerous than COVID-19. Holness, explaining his Government's decision to keep in place the ban on......

A taxi driver is dead and several people injured following two separate motor vehicle crashes in Clarendon yesterday. The first incident happened on the Chapelton main road moments after 3 p.m, where three vehicles, including the Clarendon...

East Rural St Andrew Member of Parliament (MP) Juliet Holness has encouraged her colleagues to include on application forms, all the skills possessed by persons seeking to get into the farm work programme. Holness, who boasts of a 99 per cent...

BELGIUM Time to eat worms! Dried yellow mealworms could soon be hitting supermarket shelves and restaurants across Europe. The European Union's 27 nations gave the green light Tuesday to a proposal to put the Tenebrio molitor beetle's larvae on......

St Vincent residents reject AstraZeneca vaccines The St Vincent and the Grenadines government says it has ordered 50,000 doses of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine, as nationals continue to refuse taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca......

Dancehall-reggae artiste Hot Topic knows the true meaning of a mother's love, and that's why he penned the song Mama I Love You. "The song is based on my true life story, the struggle I had to go through. My mother had 11 kids and she raised six.....