A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Monday. The......

The police are reporting that two gunmen were shot dead and a third taken into custody, following a daring shoot-out on Trafalgar Road in St Andrew. Two firearms have also been seized. The men, believed to have earlier killed a man in Swallowfield....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Commission insisted Monday it still trusts the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and that its dispute with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker is only contractual. The EU's executive branch has launched...

The Black River Police say they have arrested one man in connection with the seizure of a handgun during an operation in Williamsfield district, St. Elizabeth on Monday, May 10. Reports are that about 2:45 a.m., the police team searched a premises.....

A 23-year-old man has been charged with the shooting deaths and beheading of two men on Courburn Lane in St Andrew. Roger Smith of Collins Close, Kingston 8 was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, conspiracy to murder, illegal...

TOKYO -- Japan's government said Monday that it has agreed to purchase an antibody cocktail to be produced and marketed for COVID-19 treatment by a Japanese drug maker Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. which has a licensing deal with Roche....

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has called for leaders in the Caribbean and other parts of the developing world to come together and speak with a unified voice, in all international fora, about vaccine inequality. Bartlett said that equitable...

Jamaica on Sunday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 809. Those who have died are: - a 72-year-old woman from St Mary - a 66-year-old woman from St Catherine - a 24-year-old female from St Catherine One other...

Annette Keeling woke up Sunday morning, Mother's Day, to hear the worst possible news; her daughter Nickeisha, 29, had been murdered, allegedly by her babyfather. "Mi cah believe seh a dis mi get fi mi Mother's Day present. Mi daughter over here.....

A St James taxi man who reportedly stabbed his babymother in an altercation last Thursday committed suicide yesterday. Dead is Aubrey 'Bobby' Wright, 45, for whom a bench warrant was issued on charges of assault and child maintenance. Reports......

Alicia Morris, who is one of the many homeless people living on the streets in downtown Kingston, has been unable to sleep. The 42-year-old said she doesn't want to be caught off-guard due to violent attacks that have sent the nation's nomads...

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP): Morgan Gibbs-White completed Wolverhampton's late rally with a 90th-minute goal in a 2-1 win over Brighton, which had a player sent off in the second half and after the final whistle of the Premier League game...

Twenty-three-year-old Roger Smith of Collins Close, St Andrew, was arrested and charged last Thursday with a double murder that took place on October 16, 2020. The deceased are Mark Wellington, 32, otherwise called 'Blackie', of Maxfield Avenue.....

Five persons have been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following an incident on Old Harbour Road, Spanish Town in St. Catherine on Friday. Charged are: 25-year-old Azikiwe Osbourne of Quarry Drive, Bridgeport.....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to the school district that is anti-police "propaganda....

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie, has asked the Mayor of Montego Bay to provide a comprehensive report by Monday, May 10, on an incident in which a woman who is a vendor at the Charles Gordon market in St. James,....

PARIS (AP) -- The EU Commission did not renew its order for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, the European Union's Internal Market Commissioner said Sunday. "We have not renewed the order for after June. We'll see what...

Jamaica on Saturday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 806. The deceased include two men from St Catherine aged 85 and 60, and a 69-year-old woman from Kingston and St Andrew. Meanwhile, there were 120 new cases with ages ranging.....

The Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) will be designing a pilot project with support from the National Land Agency (NLA) to do mass issuance of titles, of which 7,732 are in the organisation's vault. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal,...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC) - The administration of Premier Andrew Fahie has increased the quarantine period for unvaccinated travellers entering the territory from four days to seven days. During a national broadcast on Friday,...