A four-year-old girl was burnt to death in Highgate, St Mary, during a fire which destroyed her family's home on Tuesday morning. She has been identified as Sariah Kowen, of Dean Pen district in Highgate. The girl's mother, Rose...

Chief of the Moore Town Maroons in Portland, Colonel Wallace Sterling, is hoping his national award will help to further strengthen the heritage and culture of the maroons. Colonel Sterling was awarded the Order of Distinction in the Rank of...

Vendors at the Savanna La Mar market on Great George's Street in Westmoreland, this morning pushed back against the public order reset initiated by the police earlier today. They also used old tyres, pallets, stones and other debris...

Minister of Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has promised that there will be an assessment to correct a possible defect at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). 

NEW YORK (AP) -- An emotional Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued for millions of dollars in damages, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18, CMC - A senior United Nations official has warned that a political solution is "no longer sufficient" to address the current crisis in Haiti, where demonstrators took to the streets on Monday demanding the...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct 18, CMC -Britain Tuesday announced that Guyanese nationals would no longer require visas to travel to the United Kingdom as of November 9. United Kingdom High Commissioner, Jane Miller, flanked by President Irfaan Ali...

Plagued with traffic violations and illegal vending, the Westmoreland Police and the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation in a collaborative effort have moved to retake control of the commercial district of the parish's capital, Savanna-La-Mar...

Domonique 'Dom Dom' Donaldson was just 19 years old, but she was a devoted mother to her 10-month-old daughter, and was looking forward to seeing her unborn child. She had plans of becoming a teacher and as such, worked as a customer service...

Jaheem Morrison had dreams of becoming a star footballer and taking his mother out of poverty, but that dream was shattered last Thursday after he was gunned down. The teen, who celebrated his birthday on October 3, was killed on Wildman Street......

A mother and daughter are accusing the police of assaulting them on Sunday in the Kingston Central area. According to Joan*, the police were conducting operations when residents, who were gathered on the roadway, were instructed to return to...

Last Saturday, Gwendolyn Williams celebrated her 100th birthday with family and close friends at a special party held at Tropical Elegance in St Andrew. The centenarian kept a smile throughout the proceedings, and on each occasion when her cheeks....

Ackee punch, ackee salad and ackee pizza were among the eye-catching culinary creations on display at yesterday's Linstead Ackee Festival which returned after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 16th staging of the event, which....

Migrant farmworkers in Canada have been painting contrasting pictures of the programme that has been described by one organisation as "systematic slavery". The state-run Jamaica Information Service (JIS) yesterday released two articles which...

It is no understatement to say that 'street food' is an integral thread in the fabric of Jamaican culture. Soup, being one of the more commonly served meals on the go, has a special place in the minds of the food-loving massive. Unfortunately,......

Scores of customers of Access Financial Services turned up at the company's Mandeville office recently to get details of the newly implemented regulations that now govern the microcredit sector. It was the first in a series of meetings on the...

Recording artiste Shaneil Muir has been ordered by her doctor to rest after she collapsed in Montego Bay, St James on Saturday.

Thirty-year-old Kirk Wilson, otherwise called 'Scrappy' was shot and killed while travelling along the Peggy Barry main road in Grange Hill, Westmoreland today. Wilson was travelling with a passenger who was also injured. The injured...

Fifty-six-year-old Manchester farmer Mark Henry, was sentenced to three life sentences for the murder of a woman and her two sons, when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court today. The victims, Nadine Carridice, her 11-year-old son Roshan...

Member of Parliament (MP) for St. James Southern, Hon. Homer Davis, is recommending that additional steps be taken to incentives agriculture, in order to attract younger persons. "The cohort of farmers in my constituency is at an average age...