The stepfather of four-year-old Nashaun Brown, who died after allegedly being beaten has been charged with multiple offences. Shaun Bennett, 24, of a Willowdene Through Way address in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been charged with unlawful...

More than 400 Justices of the Peace (JPs) across the island participated in a virtual sensitisation discussion on Child Abuse in Jamaica, on July 15. It was hosted by the Minister of Justice, Delroy Chuck, to strengthen the capacity of the JPs to......

Dramatic video captured an 18-month-old girl being rescued after she floated nearly a mile out to sea off the coast of Tunisia in an inflatable tube. It is believed that strong winds propelled the 18-month-old girl away from her family. The family.....

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Guyana on Tuesday said that it is still "some distance away" from achieving herd immunity in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that has killed 513 people and infected 21, 606...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Barbados has established a travel bubble for persons coming from select countries as it seeks to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The authorities said that the bubble, which went into...

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) -- Jeff Bezos blasted off Tuesday on the first flight of his space travel company with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own rocket. The Amazon founder zoomed toward space...

Jamaica has recorded one more COVID-19 fatality, pushing the tally to 1,158. The deceased is an 87 year old female from St Catherine. Meanwhile, there were 62 new cases with ages ranging from two years to 95 years, pushing the total...

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry has condemned the death of four-year-old Nashaun Brown, who died Sunday at the Spanish Town Hospital after he was beaten by his stepfather allegedly with a stick for "eating slowly". Henry, describing the...

Forced to deal with the constant increase in fuel prices, motorists will now have to battle with a toll fee spike next Monday on the Edward Seaga Highway, formerly the North-South Highway. "An increase in the toll rate at this time is a further.....

Carlton Williams was a hopeless teen who had no choice but to become a windscreen wiper to make ends meet. However, after joining the Windscreen Wiper Intervention Initiative (WWII), the 23-year-old's life was transformed and he acquired skills.....

The Squeegee Academy International in partnership with the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme are launching a programme to uplift windshield wipers by educating and teaching them skills that will advance their future.....

A 31-year-old Hanover man has been slapped with a slew of sexually-related charges after he allegedly abused his nine-year-old stepdaughter. The man has been charged with rape, indecent assault and buggery by detectives assigned to the Centre for....

A leading undertaker in western Jamaica has called for an upward adjustment in the number of persons allowed at funerals. Melvin Honeyghan, the managing director of Honeyghan's Funeral Home, said that the 30 mourners limit is far too low. "The...

The heat is on for the residents of Barrett Hall in Lilliput, St James, who said they have been out of electricity for little more than a week. They said they are imploring the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to rectify the situation by...

For more than 20 years, Dawnette Henry lived in a one-bedroom shack with leaking roof at Pembroke Hall in Gayle, St Mary. "Rain wet me up pon the bed. Sometimes we don't sleep because we have to stay up and tie up sheets just not to get wet, but.....

Four-year-old Nashawn Brown died at hospital yesterday, hours after he was beaten allegedly with a piece of stick by his stepfather for "eating slowly". His mother and step-father were later questioned by detectives...

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man told police officers he was "teaching it a lesson" when he tried to throw a live alligator he had stolen from a miniature golf course onto the roof of a beachside cocktail lounge,...

The Ministry of Education is encouraging parents and/or guardians to call its helplines as well as its regional offices in the event they need help in accessing and printing their child's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) 2021 results. The...

Jamaica has recorded two more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 1,157. The deceased are a 92-year-old female from Hanover and 68-year-old female from St Ann. Meanwhile, there were 85 new cases with ages ranging from 65 days...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry will replace the country's interim prime minister to honour the wishes of the country's slain president, an official told The Associated Press on...