The age old 'mermaid story' told by residents who live in the Bog Walk gorge in St Catherine resurfaced on Tuesday after another fatal crash. This time, 59-year-old Linstead resident Valerie Ennis was killed after the minibus in which she was...

Breaking news to her seven-year-old daughter that she would never be able to have nightly video chats with her dad was by far the hardest thing that Sashana Christie-Rose has ever done. She knew that the child, Sharpae, who shared an unbreakable......

An eighth-grade student attended her online classes for the first time in months yesterday following intervention from a parish court judge. The child's father was answering to charges of assault occasioning actually bodily harm and child abuse....

A man who broke into a car and stole $600,000 is expected to know his fate next week. Jermaine Ashley pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property and simple larceny when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday.......

As of July 15, fully vaccinated persons who are 60 and over will be eligible to apply for a $10,000 grant being distributed by the Government. The grant, according to Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, is an incentive for those who saw it fit to.....

A woman was given a suspended sentence for drug-related offences when she appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Ayesha Burford pleaded guilty to possession of, dealing in, and taking steps to export ganja. The court...

Two small children, under the watchful eyes of their guardians, frolicked in the dark sands on Bob Marley Beach in Nine Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew, yesterday. Meanwhile, a small group of young men nod their heads to the pulsating beat from their....

"Everytime the rain set up it face to fall, mi heart shuffle," are the words of Terri-Ann Murray, a resident of Weise Road, Bull Bay, St Andrew. Last November, when the Chalky River paid an unwelcome visit to Murray and her neighbours, she had to....

Upon seeing the news team, Myrtle Smith flashed a bright smile and got up out of her chair as she offered her greetings. Smith, who celebrated her 100th birthday on April 7, has called 25 Wildman Street in downtown Kingston home for the past 64...

Detectives attached to the Centre for Investigations of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse(CISOCA), have charged a man with rape and abduction following an incident in Charles Town, St. Ann on Friday, May 21.

Washington (AP) -- The U.S. will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year, a person familiar with...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AP) -- Ever since the pandemic began, Haiti had perplexed experts with seemingly low infection and death rates from COVID-19 despite its rickety public health system, a total lack of vaccines and a widespread disdain for...

Jamaica on Tuesday recorded 14 COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 988. Ten of the deceased were previously under investigation, nine of them are from St James, inclusive of eight women aged 77, 73, 60, 43, two aged 80, two aged 67, a 70-.....

Washington, Unites States (CMC) - The World Bank said Tuesday even as the global economy is expected to expand by nearly six per cent this year, many emerging markets and developing economies will continue to struggle with the coronavirus...

Washington, United States (CMC) -- The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa F Etienne has called on the authorities in the Caribbean to be fully prepared for the 2021 hurricane season. Dr Etienne warned that the...

Cape Town, South Africa (AP) -- In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks. In South Africa, which has the continent's...

The Portmore police arrested one man and seized an illegal firearm during an operation in Garvey Meade, Bridgeport, St. Catherine on Tuesday. Reports from the police are that about 1 p.m., an intelligence led operation was carried out in the...

The woman who died as a result of injuries she received in a collision in the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine this morning has been identified as 59-year-old Valerie Ennis of the Whitehouse Housing Scheme in Linstead in the parish. Reports are...

LONDON (AP) -- A British policeman has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found a week later in the woods. A court at London's Old Bailey heard Tuesday that Wayne Couzens...

Fifty-seven-year-old Hugh Archer of Askenish district in Hanover died from injuries he received in a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Bogue Hill Road and AGS Coombs main road in St James on Monday, June 07. The police report that...