A Mandeville taxi driver has been arrested after beating another with what appeared to be a baseball bat just outside the gates of the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester. He then attempted to drive over the injured cabbie. The...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Attorney General Dale Marshall has been tasked with providing the Government of Barbados with a legal opinion on the criminal and civil liability associated with mandatory COVID-19 testing and vaccination....

An elderly dementia patient strangled his own penis after wrapping rubber bands around it and leaving them on for three days. The 81-year-old had to have emergency surgery in Chicago after the skin on the tip of his member...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 182 new cases of COVID-19, with ages ranging from two months to 93 years, pushing the total to 52,504 of which 4,025 are active. Of the new cases, 72 are men and 110 are women. St Ann accounts for the majority of the......

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony says the Government will make a decision on the matter of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in due course. He said the Government is paying close attention to the evolution of the...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese officials sounded the alarm Thursday as Tokyo reported record-breaking coronavirus cases for the third-straight day with the Olympics well underway. Tokyo reported 3,865 new cases Thursday, up from 3,177 on Wednesday and...

The Clarendon Police charged two men with several offences, including murder, following the death of 34-year-old Everton Harrison of Coffals district in the parish on Monday, July 05. Charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal possession....

A 90-year-old retiree was found murdered in his house on Sandy Lane in Drewsland, St Andrew. The body of the deceased, Cliffton Williams, was discovered by a resident who went to his house. Police said that there was a wound at the back of the......

People who have been scheduled for elective surgeries at public hospitals in Jamaica face the possibility of having their procedures rescheduled due to a third wave of the COVID-19 infections on the island. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr...

The St Ann man who was jailed after appearing in a viral video in which he unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade at Prime Minister Andrew Holness has been released from custody without charge. Shaquille Higgins was taken out of his house and locked up.....

Deja Gordon took ownership of her animal farm -- with sheep, pigs and horses -- at an early age, all of which moved to the tune of the old nursery rhyme, Old McDonald. This toy farm helped shape her love for animals, which later propelled her...

Silford Morrison, 87, sat in disbelief as flames engulfed the place he called home for over three decades. His daughter, Monique, shared that her father lost everything in the July 20 fire that gutted the family’s seven-bedroom dwelling on...

Disabled 70-year-old Garnette Young said she is still hanging on to hope, through prayers and spiritual supplication, that she will walk again on her own. Young, a resident of Church Road, Bog Walk, St Catherine, is paralysed from her waist down.....

Understanding and acceptance are the words that best describe how vendors in downtown Kingston feel about the new COVID-19 measures. Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday announced that the new curfew hours will be from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. from......

WASHINGTON -- The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine wanes slightly over time but it remains strongly protective for at least six months after the second dose, according to company data released Wednesday. The findings are one piece of...

Jamaica is this week to get 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the United Kingdom, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced today. British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad today tweeted that the vaccines will arrive on....

Three more COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Jamaica, increasing the tally to 1,182. The deceased are a 67-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew, a 55-year-old woman from St Catherine, and a 65-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew. And......

A love triangle involving members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) turned ugly yesterday following altercations involving a male constable and two female cops, both of whom are said to have borne a child for him. One of the females, who is....

Watching his men remove the body of a 82-year-old woman, who appeared to have been raped before her throat was slashed by lowlifes on Ashoka Road in Waterhouse, St Andrew, was by far the most difficult task for Superintendent of Police, Kirk...