KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, Dec 1, CMC - One person may have died as a result of being injected with the COVID-19 vaccine, Chief Medical Officer Dr Simone Keizer-Beache told the High Court on Wednesday, on day one of the vaccine mandate...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 1, CMC - A revised Income Tax Relief Act that gives incentives to investments of US$1 billion or more, is expected to be tabled in Parliament by the next March, according to Minister of Finance and the Public Service,...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 30, CMC - The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries Wednesday said that a barge carrying 900 barrels of diesel fuel sank while demobilising in the Gulf of Paria and that the six-member crew had been...

MILAN (AP) -- Search teams on Thursday recovered three more bodies buried under mud and debris from a weekend landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia, raising the death toll to 11. One person remains missing. The Naples prefect...

LONDON (AP) -- A top European Union official warned Elon Musk on Wednesday that Twitter needs to beef up measures to protect users from hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content to avoid violating new rules that threaten...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- On their way to Argentina's decisive game against Poland, Mohit Daga and Aayush Verma approached the stadium carrying a massive painting of their heroes Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona with the World Cup trophy. Daga...

Eyebrows were raised in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday when it was alleged that a ward of a senior citizen home was being charged with wounding a fellow ward. Everyone in the courtroom, including Parish Judge Venise...

Firemen in St Ann are in a sombre mood after one of their colleagues was killed in a motor vehicle crash yesterday in Ocho Rios. Dead is 25-year-old Larenzo Douse, who served the fire department for six years. Douse was the son of Assistant...

A Hanover car parts manager who is wanted by officials in the United States for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft was yesterday offered bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, as prosecutors have decided to proceed with the local......

Argentina may have fewer support in Jamaica compared to arch-rivals Brazil, but there are some die-hard 'Albiceleste' (sky blue) fans who will go beyond the ordinary to prove their passion and love for the South American giants. One of them is......

After Argentina's round-of-16 qualifying win in the World Cup, long-time supporter and taxi driver Oral Coleman said he will be fasting until his team advances to the quarterfinals. While wiping his taxi on Ocean Boulevard in downtown Kingston......

A fountain of tears flooded Delesa Henry's dark and cramped one-room dwelling that she occupies in downtown Kingston with her five children. The 30-year-old, who dropped out of all-age school after she became pregnant at age 14, has had a hard......

Senior Parish Judge Lori-Anne Cole-Montaque on Tuesday ordered the release of a man who was in lock-up after he failed to attend court to answer to the charge of conspiracy to murder. The man, Michael Panchan, was arrested on a warrant after...

Thirty-three-year-old Junior Greyson, otherwise called 'Jay', security guard of Phoenix Town in Santoy, Hanover, was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, 35-year-old Judeen Smith-Greyson. The deceased woman, who hailed from Logwood......

Cassia Murray, a janitor of Bread Lane in Kingston 14, has been charged with the murder of her common-law partner, Ramone Patterson. Murray, 35, is the mother of one of Patterson's four children. Patterson, 25, otherwise called '6 Boss', a baker.....

Buckingham Palace staff insults black guest A Buckingham Palace staff member has resigned amid a row over comments made to a black charity boss at a reception hosted by Camilla, Queen Consort. Ngozi Fulani -- who is the founder of the Sistah......

AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) -- The players for both England and Wales took a knee before their final World Cup group game on Tuesday. The teams made the gesture as a sign of solidarity in the fight against discrimination. England and Wales...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov 30, CMC - Barbados is observing the first anniversary of being a republic as well as 56 years of political independence from Britain, with Prime Minister Mia Mottley urging Barbadians to come together to build...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov 30, CMC - Barbados has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as well as an air services agreement with Saudi Arabia in an effort to further develop relations between the two countries. A statement issued by the...

Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, more commonly known as 'Pele', was taken to the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil by his wife Marcia Aoki and a caretaker on Tuesday. It is reported that he was...