TORONTO -- Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for the first dose can be offered either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for the second. The advice affects more than two million...

Members of the media were this afternoon asked to withdraw from the Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald court hearing because of fear expressed by the prosecution that sensitive information in the murder case could be made public....

The male nurse assistant accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old patient at the Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover was charged on Monday. He has been identified as 45-year-old Damion Bigby of a Hanover address. He is facing a charge of indecent......

The Government has earmarked $100 million for the cleaning of drains and clearing of verges across Jamaica. The National Works Agency (NWA) says the activities form part of the first phase of national preparations for the 2021 North Atlantic...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum says the early wet season is forecast to bring an increase in wet days and wet spells and that there is no major concern for shorter-term drought in the Caribbean...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Ten years after their first date, Debby Neal-Strickland put on a cream-coloured lace gown and married her longtime sweetheart at their Florida church. Two days later, she put on a hospital gown and donated a...

Morris Campbell, otherwise called 'Hussain', a 27-year-old labourer of New Harbour Village, Old Harbour in St Catherine has been charged once again by the police. Campbell was featured in the Jamaica Constabulary Force's '...

Jamaica has recorded 37 new cases of COVID-19, increasing the tally to 48,594. Of the new infections, 21 are women and 16 are men with ages ranging from five years to 93 years. The figure for active cases has been moved to 21,784. The country's...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- American pharmaceutical company Moderna says it has begun the process to win full U.S. regulatory approval for the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in adults. Moderna announced Tuesday it has begun a "rolling submission"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is leaving in place a $2 billion verdict in favour of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talc products. The justices did not comment Tuesday in rejecting Johnson...

A high school teacher has been left in an uncomfortable position after his name was among 23 persons of interest listed by the Manchester police last Thursday. Marlon Thomas from Comfort, which is currently a hotspot in the parish, has claimed...

Residents of lower Waltham Park Road say they are being terrorised by a man who is allegedly of unsound mind. The man, who residents say frequents the Chinese Cemetery, has been blamed for damaging at least two cars, and allegedly attacking one......

A Chinese businessman was yesterday fined $610,000 or face nine months' imprisonment for being in possession of nine boxes of bleaching cream. Jin Wan pleaded guilty to breaching the Pharmacy Act when he appeared before Senior Parish Judge Lori-....

A man was ordered to pay more than $100,000 for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Mark Harrison pleaded guilty to breaching the Noise Abatement Act, breaching the......

Winston Williamson, 63, and his friend Owen Bryan, 57, were among residents in Alley, Clarendon, who were shuttled to a shelter during the infamous June 1986 flood, which claimed scores of lives and disrupted livelihoods across Clarendon....

It has been 35 years since the infamous June floods ravaged lives and livelihoods across much of Jamaica, with the parish of Clarendon being the heaviest hit. At least 50 people died during the 1986 disaster. Myrtel Brown, a resident of...

A few residents of Greenwich Town in St Andrew are gasping in anticipation for the revitalisation of the railway service in the Corporate Area. This after Transport Minister Robert Montague announced that the trains would soon be in operation...

A 39-year-old Westmoreland man has been charged with several offences after he allegedly raped a minor at gunpoint on May 20. The man, who is of a Grange Hill address, was charged with illegal possession of firearm, burglary, rape, assault at...

Paul Byfield was next door when he heard explosions coming from the direction of his mother's house on Elleston Road in Kingston and rushed to check on her. When he got there he saw her clutching her stomach. He quickly realised that she was hurt....

Richard Roye was filled with optimism as he departed the Ministry of Labour and Social Security offices on East Street in Kingston yesterday. He had just taken his COVID-19-test that is required to depart on the seasonal overseas farm work...