Miami, United States (CMC) — The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says that officers at Miami International Airport apprehended a Jamaican smuggler with cocaine in a pair of sandals and in the smuggler's body....

A 25-year-old Kingston man has been arrested and charged for breaches of the Firearms Act, after an illegal gun was found in a car he was driving on Thursday. Charged with illegal possession of firearm, and illegal possesion of ammunition is...

A Kingston man who was involved in a March 2020 shooting incident, was arrested and charged at the Sangster International Airport on Thursday, after he attempted to leave the island. The man identified as 31-year-old Dujon Pitter, higgler of...

LONDON (AP) - The British government has announced a small step out of lockdown, allowing nursing home residents to have a single friend or family member visit them indoors. Residents and their visitors will be able to hold hands, but not hug. The.....

A St. Mary man was fined over JM$100,000 for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act following when he appeared in the Parish Court on Tuesday, February 16. The man has been identified as Maurice Lawrence of Gibbs Hill in St. Mary. Lawrence...

As Jamaica's COVID-19 confirmed cases continue to trend towards the 21,000 mark, 343 more Jamaicans have tested positive for the virus, from a sample of 1,109 tests in the last 24 hours, pushing the total to 20,924, with 7,442 active. Of...

Clinical Coordinator at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St. James, Dr. Delroy Fray, says plans are "well under way" to create an additional 16 bed spaces at the facility for COVID-19 patients. Addressing a virtual forum hosted...

The St Elizabeth police have commenced an investigation into the murder of a popular spiritual healer, who was shot and killed at his home in Denbigh Castle on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Bishop Jerome Hilton. Reports by.....

The St Catherine North police said that a breakthrough has been made in the upsurge of crime by the newly formed Bed Bug criminal gang. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Linroy Edwards, the breakthrough resulted in the arrest of the...

Retired policeman Radcliffe Lewis wants the nation's judges to be dread in handing out sentences for murder and gun-related offences. Lewis, who retired at the rank of Senior Superintendent of Police in 2013, said that a lot of the sentences being....

A 49-year-old Jamaican woman claims she was badly beaten by two of her patient's children in The Bahamas, where she works as a caregiver, last Saturday. "They almost kill me. If I never bawl out for Jesus and bit one on the hand I wouldn't...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says the recent ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) - that existing laws in Jamaica violate the rights of a gay people - is "not binding on a sovereign state". Chuck, contacted by THE WEEKEND....

With a 20-year age difference and contrasting personalities, dancehall artiste/social media sensation Queen Ladi Gangsta and Dwayne 'Dewy' Scarlett seem like an odd couple. But the chemistry is clear as they lovingly make eye contact and laugh......

Richard Curry yesterday defeated incumbent Colonel Ferron Williams in the election to select the new leader of the Accompong Town Maroons. Curry beat Williams by 281 votes in Thursday's polls, held at nine polling divisions across four parishes......

Jamaica's de facto works minister, Everald Warmington, says members of the public can reach out to him about bad road conditions in their communities. "Once I receive a petition from a constituency, I advise the member of parliament that I have......

The Jamaican Government has identified money to buy enough vaccines to inoculate at least two million persons on the island. Dr Nigel Clarke, the country's finance minister, said that the money will be made available under the newly-established......

Woman says wind got her pregnant A police investigation has been launched after a woman claimed she became pregnant by a gust of wind. Siti Zainah gave birth to a daughter in Indonesia last week, just an hour after she felt the wind surround her.....

Mi say mi have a buss a di back a mi head, and every time, mi feel di scar it remind mi not to take woman fi idiot. Mi did live with mi babymother, but mi did want back mi ex-girlfriend, so when she start show mi back a good vibes, mi jus tek me....

Last December, Antoinette Beckford was struck down by a heart attack. She found out after she was rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) where she spent a week trying to recover. The 53-year-old is scared of being in such a...

For the few persons who live on Jail Lane in St Ann's Bay, the name holds no fear for them. It's just a name, they insist. Today, the street, shortened to just one block because of the construction of the North Coast Highway some years ago, no...