Twenty-year-old Shamar McCalla of Naseberry Grove in Kitson Town, St Catherine, has been charged with the murder of 14 year old Jonathan Grant student Danisha Cooper. McCalla allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab Cooper, who had broken off an...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks as domestic demand for shots drops and global disparities in distribution...

Dancehall artiste Beenie Man has been fined $150,000 in the St Elizabeth Parish Court for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act. He had earlier pleaded guilty. The 47-year-old international dancehall star was charged by the Black River police....

The St Andrew North Police say they have seized one Taurus 9mm pistol and twelve 9mm rounds of ammunition during an operation on White Hall Avenue, St Andrew on Saturday, April 15. According to the Constant Spring Police, the operation was...

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC - Police in Grenada on Monday confirmed that they had arrested and charged nine people, including two juveniles, after an estimated EC$750,000 worth of marijuana to be used as evidence in ongoing court matters...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A powerful cyclone that emerged in the Arabian Sea made landfall on India's western coast on Monday, hours after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19 vaccinations in one state....

Jamaica on Sunday recorded three COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 863. The deceased are a 66-year-old woman from St Clarendon, a 68-year-old woman from Kingston and St Andrew and a 56-year-old man from Clarendon. One more death has been....

Forty-three-year-old Margarita Carter of Lincoln Road, Brown's Town in St Ann is suspected to have drowned at Fisherman's Beach, Discovery Bay in the parish on Sunday. Reports from the Discovery Bay Police are that about 12:10 p.m.,...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked three islands in the Eastern Caribbean early Sunday. The Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies said the quake occurred just after 8:00 a.m and was...

Antonio Watson, the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' Athletics Championships Class One 200m winner has apologised for a gesture he made towards the end of the race at the National Stadium on Saturday. Watson, a student of Petersfield High School,...

A St Thomas family is torn between grief and gratitude after what began as an evening of celebration and usual the familial bonding ended fatally. Aaliyah Jemison, 17, of East Albion in the parish, was hit by a car on the weekend. Her older...

When Alesha McLean-Downer realised that only eight of her students were accessing classes online, she went in search of the missing students to find out why they were not turning up for classes. The Marcus Garvey Technical High School teacher...

It's almost five months since Charmaine Hayden last set eyes on her common-law husband, Rolan Griffiths, and his absence is taking a toll on their family. Griffiths was picked up at their Thornton, St Elizabeth, home, by members of the Jamaica......

Trevor Bernard, president of the Goat and Sheep Association of Jamaica, has hailed the announcement of plans for a special artificial insemination and embryo transfer project for small ruminants across the island. The programme, aimed at boosting....

Verol 'Bird' Reid remembers March 28, 2020, as if it were yesterday. An assistant bar manager, Reid was on a cruise ship that was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, when he learnt of the COVID-19 pandemic. "We were called to a.....

Bull Bay to get new police station The current Bull Bay Police station, which was built in the 1800s, is set for demolition. The station, located at Nine Miles in St Andrew, was constructed with packed stones. However, it will soon be...

Big bucks for fake funeral A woman staged a rehearsal for her own funeral in the Dominican Republic. Mayra Alonzo was desperate to find out what her funeral service would be like, and so decided to stage a trial run in the city of Santiago.......

Over 100 young boys abused in first quarter of 2021 Guyana's Ministry of Human Services says that 110 young boys, aged three and under, were abused during the first quarter of this year. The ministry, in releasing the figure yesterday in...

(AP) - The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in...

LONDON (AP) -- Travellers in England were packing their bags, bartenders were polishing their glasses and performers were warming up as Britain prepared Sunday for a major step out of lockdown -- but with clouds of worry on the horizon....