The police have confirmed that Rushane Barnett, the man currently behind bars for the murder of the Clarendon family of five, was found in possession of contraband on Tuesday. The find was made after Barnett allegedly got into a confrontation with....

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Sept 14, CMC - Jamaica Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett says tourism is "the fastest and easiest way to transfer wealth from the rich to the poor" even as he noted that the Caribbean region needs...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St Mary Western, Robert Montague, is proposing the implementation of $20 billion infrastructure development programme that targets communities, housing schemes, farm roads, bridges, drains, and river training. Making......

Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles, finished five seasons ranked No. 1 and helped create a golden era of men's...

Residents in the vicinity of Buck Town in St Catherine, retrieved the body of a baby girl which was found floating in the Rio Cobre river in the parish on Wednesday afternoon. The body is believed to have been thrown into the river elsewhere and...

WASHINGTON, Sep 15, CMC - A new World Bank report has called on countries in the region to take urgent action to help reduce the impacts of climate change and set a path for the transition to low-carbon economies. According to the report,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B resolved a yearslong criminal case stemming from a pair of brawls at New York City strip clubs by pleading guilty Thursday in a deal that requires her to perform 15 days of community service. The...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Audley Shaw, says the concerns of public transport operators in St. Andrew West Rural, who withdrew their services earlier this week, will be addressed. "We hear your concerns... and we are working on...

When Krishna Rose was five years old and rattled by episodes of asthma attacks, his paediatrician recommended that he started swimming to help him build his lung capacity. Swimming is considered a great exercise for asthmatics. His parents took.....

Between Sunday morning and Tuesday midnight, Ayoka Clarke said she was smiling from ear to ear because her son, Ricardo Tyrell, had promised to do something special for her birthday on September 23. It wouldn't have been the first time that...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday warned people who possess illegal guns that they will face stiff penalties when the new Firearms Act is brought into force. The far-reaching piece of legislation proposed a minimum 15 years imprisonment for....

The bail application for a Corporate Area man accused of beating a female with a hammer failed to get under way in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday, after it was revealed by prosecutors that the case file could not be located....

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A 22-year-old Corporate Area resident on Wednesday denied stealing a cell phone from a call centre worker when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The accused, Anthony Davis, is charged with receiving stolen property in...

Monday, July 11 is a day Monique Johnson wishes she could forget. It was the day that she lost her cousin, Shavar Manning, following a motor vehicle crash in Clarendon. Johnson, 23, a resident of Cottage Hill, Summerfield in the parish, was...

Beach cleanups across the island Saturday A total of 200 clean-up sites have been registered by 193 groups for International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day Jamaica 2022 on Saturday, September 17 and there will be clean-ups in every parish. This is....

Escaped sheep stops traffic Traffic was backed up for miles on a British highway after a runaway sheep made its way on to the road. Britain's National Highways East tweeted that traffic was brought to a halt on the M1 highway near Milton Keynes....

Regional vice president of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Peter Cerda, is once again calling for better inter-regional travel options within the Caribbean. Expressing concerns regarding the absence of connectivity within the...

WASHINGTON, Sept 14, CMC -Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Wednesday made an impassioned plea for the United States to reverse its decision regarding correspondent banking in the Caribbean telling US legislators not to allow "this to...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Sept 14, CMC - The telecommunication company, Digicel, Wednesday said the ongoing political situation in Haiti is having a "major impact" on its operations with many "of our optical fibres" being...