NZINGA King, who alleged that she was forcibly trimmed by a cop while in custody, could face charges for creating public mischief following a ruling handed down by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) on Wednesday. W...

THE Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has put a halt on approving the building and planning application for The Ascent at Oxford Road, New Kingston, which was proposed to be the tallest building in the country if cons...

THE rapid increase in the number of TikTok videos featuring Jamaican children has drawn the attention of Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison, who says her office will be moving to clamp down on parents and children involved in w...

RESIDENTS of Grange Hill were left in shock Wednesday when brazen gunmen killed a man in front of a basic school in the Westmoreland community.According to the police, Javaine Lue, 26, of Patrick Drive in the area, was shot six times af...

Today is the 41st day of 2022. There are 324 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2009: US and Russian communication satellites collide in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds. OTHER...

PRESIDENT of the Guild of Students at The Mico University College in St Andrew, Shavoy Lyons, has appealed for increased police presence in the vicinity of the institution amid concerns that students are being abducted and robbed there....

SALT SPRING, St James - The security forces have removed three more illegal firearms, including a high-powered rifle, from the hands of criminals during Wednesday morning's joint police-military operation in the tough Salt Spring commun...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Police Wednesday said they are treating as a "murder investigation" the death of a 48-year-old housewife, whose body was found hanging from a mango tree in her yard at Yarrowkabra, along the Soesdyke/Linden Hi...

IT has been a bumpy ride for the operators of the St Mary-based Harth of Nature, which produces wines and spirits from local produce, including guava and naseberry, but with the help of the Social Development Commission (SDC) the compan...

ABOUT 200 small ruminants are to be imported under the Small Ruminant Development Programme by the end of March, to be distributed to farmers for expansion of the sector.In his address at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries press ...

Top global personalities including former United States Vice-President Mike Pence and former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will headline a world summit highlighting the long-running campaign for reconciliation on the Kore...

Charmaine Daniels, CEO of Digicel Foundation, pushes this young man to "greater heights" during activities on the second official Play Day JA on February 2, 2022. The Digicel Foundation partnered with Special Olympics Jamaica to encoura...

INFORMATION Minister Robert Morgan has defended Government's handling of corruption in the public sector, arguing that the Holness Administration has over the years taken on some of the recommendations made by the anti-corruption bodies...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) - United States Senate Majority Leader Charles "Chuck" Schumer has introduced Jamaican-born New York City Assemblyman Nick Perry to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the nominee for US amba...

SANKLE BAY, Portland - Vernon "Culture" Sewell left his house in Sankle Bay Beach, near the San San Old Road, in good condition on January 11 to tend to his nearby farm, but it was a nightmare when he returned home.Sewell had to force h...

LUCEA, Hanover - Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Clifton Reader is of the view that it may not be necessary to continue with stringent COVID-19 measures at this time, given that the Omicron variant of the novel co...

MINISTER of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr is reporting that the recent heavy rains in sections of the island did considerable damage to crops, and said farmers will be assisted by his ministry.He said while several parish...

 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis.Macron also said it would take time to find a diplomatic solut...

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) - St Lucia Tuesday said that its tourism sector is "flourishing" and the island is looking to open a number of hotels with several international brand names committed to the island.Tourism Minister Dr Ernest Hil...

THERE are indications that Jamaican students are seeing some return to normality as a number of institutions push to have students back in the classroom five days per week, with guidance from the education ministry for a minimum of two ...

ONE month since a zone of special operations (ZOSO) was declared in Parade Gardens, Kingston Central, rival gangsters appear to be engaging on friendlier terms with each other, organising football matches and other community events amon...

Q: There are several messages about safety, COVID, and crime on the embassy webpage. What is the difference between a travel advisory and an alert?A: Travel advisories are issued by the State Department for every country in the world an...

THE National Water Commission (NWC) says the cause of a sewage problem in the vicinity of the meat market in Cross Roads, St Andrew, is a damaged sewer lateral, which the entity is not responsible for fixing.Andrew Cannon, the NWC's com...

Today is the 40th day of 2022. There are 325 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1962: British empire announces that Jamaica will be granted Independence effective August 6. Other Events1801: Peace of Luneville between Austria and F...

COUNCILLOR for the Papine Division in St Andrew Eastern Venesha Phillips has blamed the poor state of the road in front of the Papine market as the reason for the stagnant run-off water from the facility, which she says should be of gre...

Dear Mr Brown,My wife wants to apply for a study permit. However, I have overstayed my time in Canada for three years. I want to know whether that would affect my wife's application.-BADear BA:To answer your question, I will state that ...

PORT MARIA, St Mary - Audrey's Distributors has no insurance to fall back on after losing more than $3.8 million worth of goods one week ago when flood waters swept through Port Maria's commercial hub, leaving havoc in its wake.A simil...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has temporarily suspended production at a key plant manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine, The New York Times reported Tuesday.The facility in the Dutch city of Leiden halte...

DOSQUEBRADAS, Colombia (AFP) - At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster agency said.The early morning rains touched off a landslide on a mountain in...

JAMAICANS For Justice (JFJ) on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the Access to Information (ATI) Appeal Tribunal shared on Friday, January 28, 2022, which charged that several withheld and redacted documents regarding the 2009 tragedy at...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the US and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protes...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (JBM) will be undertaking a multimillion-dollar commercial and industrial park development project in Lydford, St Ann, where the entity's main activities are concentrated. Minister ...

Government Senator Charles Sinclair says he is in favour of local government elections being delayed, and held simultaneously with the next general election, as a cost-saving measure.In the debate on changes to the Representation of the...

Custos Rotulorum for St Catherine Icylin Golding (left) converses with host pastor of Hagley Park Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingston Rev Omar Oliphant (right) during the Ministry of Justice's Restorative Justice Week 2022 closing ...

GOING further than a group of prominent Jamaicans who have slapped Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton for discriminating against the unvaccinated, reggae singer Tanya Stephens has called on the embattled minister to resi...

PROSECUTORS were yesterday thrown another curve ball regarding the recorded conversations between alleged gangsters, which were last week entered into evidence in the ongoing trial of 33 alleged members of the St Catherine-based Klansma...

SPRING GARDENS, Westmoreland - The criminals who shot dead two people and wounded six others at an illegal party in Spring Gardens, Westmoreland, Sunday night, had conducted a reconnaissance of the venue hours before, a survivor of the ...

A suspect linked to last December's double murder of a Chinese couple in Bellevue, near Southfield, St Elizabeth, had been on the police's radar for crimes committed in at least two other divisions, police sources say.The male suspect, ...

SEAMAN'S VALLEY, Portland - Heather Scott and the members of her family are homeless and left picking up the pieces following a fire that gutted their home on Saturday afternoon.Scott said she was at the river when her daughter broke th...

PLANS for the admissions of new resi dents to the island's infirmaries have been put on pause because of the latest wave of COVID-19 infections.Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie says late last year ther...

Today is the 39th day of 2022. There are 326 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1924: The first US execution by gas takes place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City. OTHER EVENTS1517: Captain Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, a ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - A Biden Administration task force on organised labour on Monday issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionise.The report submitted to Presi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) - The abductors of Pastor Lochard Rémy, a popular evangelical singer, are demanding a two-million-dollar ransom for his release, according to his wife, Yolie Rémy.She told local media that the kidnappers, s...

LONDON, England (AP) - Gun salutes rang out in London and Edinburgh on Monday to mark the official start of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee year, as the 95-year-old monarch prepared for a busy season of public duties.Britain's lon...

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - Grenada is celebrating its 48th anniversary of political Independence from Britain on Monday with Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell noting the impact that the novel coronavirus pandemic is continuing to have ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - A High Court judge Monday sentenced a 48-year-old man to more than 38 years in jail after he was found guilty of raping the wife of a close friend in 2018.Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, sitting at the Suddie...

JAMAICANS are making their mark in the Compete Caribbean Project with a conch cluster designed to ensure the sustainable economic growth of the country's queen conch business.Compete Caribbean is a private sector development programme t...

The HEART/NSTA Trust, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), and Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ), will host activities marking National Career Awareness Week 2022, from February 6 to 1...

NEW YORK, United States - A United States-based Jamaican watchdog group is urging parents of young girls to be on the alert for human traffickers who are using different methods of attracting females for their illicit trade.Sandra Gipso...

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) - International efforts to defuse the stand-off over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as...