The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has commenced a probe into an allegation and complaint of abuse of rights for the trimming of a dreadlocked teenager, allegedly by a police officer. Princess Nzinga Candice King, 19, a...

Four Haitian males have landed in Buff Bay, Portland. They arrived on a boat in Spring Gardens shortly before 5 o'clock on Tuesday and are now awaiting an examination by the local health department. The police say the Haitians were...

Three more COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Jamaica, increasing the tally to 1,203. The deceased are a 55-year-old man from Portland, a 59-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew, and a 68-year-old man from Kingston and St Andrew. One...

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended flights and trains, cancelled professional basketball league games, and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan on Tuesday as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has likened the trimming of a dreadlocked teenager, allegedly by a police officer, to the scalping of a member of Britain's Royal family. Princess Nzinga Candice King, 19, a Rastafarian, alleged that her hair was...

Born in Barbary Hall in St Elizabeth 100 years ago, Inez Jones left the breadbasket parish in her early 20s and settled in Homestead, a community outside of Spanish Town, St Catherine, where she raised her family. Jones, who reached the century......

Heightened national pride fuelled by the 'Emancipendence' and dominant performances by Jamaica's athletes at major sporting events, such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships of Athletics, have normally increase the desire of persons to....

Ayele Russell, a Jamaican who fled the island after allegedly murdering his girlfriend in Negril in 2017, is now in the custody of Jamaican law enforcement officials. Russell was deported from the United States of America, where he was serving...

"Jeezam, dem need to put in an escalator down a Cane River Falls because di journey rough. Mi just walk up about a hundred step and mi can't breathe. The water cold bad, but mi enjoy myself to di max," said Shanna-Kay, who visited the St Andrew......

During the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) last year, Jamaica-born educator and life coach Vanice Ricketts spent close to three months with some of her students. Due to lockdown, some students, dependent on where they were...

ISTANBUL (AP) Wildfires raged on Sunday near Turkey's holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla as the discovery of more bodies caused the death toll to rise to eight. Residents and tourists fled the danger in small boats, while the coast...

BERLIN (AP) Hundreds of people turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government's anti-coronavirus measures, despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to arrests and clashes with police. Local authorities banned several different......

A Jamaican living in the United States has returned home to invest in her home town of Port Antonio, Portland, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, so as to create sustainable employment for the local people and to provide women with timeless fashions....

Education Minister, Fayval Williams, says that the first staging of the National Summer School Programme is going well. "We are pleased with summer school...our tutors took to it and our students as well and summer school is [doing...

Jamaica has recorded four more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 1,200. The deceased are a 73-year-old man from Hanover, an 84-year-old man from Westmoreland, a 54-year-old woman from Westmoreland, and an 83-year-old woman from Kingston and....

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC - The St Vincent and the Grenadines Government will on Thursday pilot legislation amending the Public Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 that it says will allow for certain categories of public sector employees to be...

The Manchester Municipal Corporation has announced that it will present the Key to the Town of Mandeville to Olympic Record Holder Elaine Thompson-Herah following her 100m gold-medal run in Tokyo, Japan. Thompson-Herah hails from the community of......

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is urging Jamaicans to go out and become vaccinated against COVID-19 while also remaining vigilant in their practice of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. This comes as the island registered...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHSFA) has called on CARICOM member states to intensify protective measures against the African Swine Fever, which is now confirmed to be in the...

Olympic debutants Christopher Taylor and Demish Gaye have both qualified for the semi-finals of the Men's 400m event at the Tokyo Games in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday morning. Taylor ran a time of 45.20 seconds to place third in his heat and take an...