A 35-year-old man was shot and killed by his father at their business place in St Andrew. The incident happened this morning. The deceased has been identified as Ruel Knight, a past student of Jamaica College. The father, a well-known figure in the....

TORONTO (AP) -- All schools in Canada's most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by more-contagious virus variants, Ontario's premier announced...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Police in eastern North Carolina say they've "arrested" a goat after they got a call reporting an attempted break-in. The Charlotte Observer reports that the incident occurred Tuesday in the college...

Opposition spokesperson on Justice and Gender Affairs, Senator Donna Scott Mottley, is calling on the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to immediately investigate member of parliament of Central Westmoreland, George Wright. She is also calling for......

The Digicel Group today announced the donation of US$500,000 worth of much-needed items to support the urgent relief efforts in St Vincent & the Grenadines arising from the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano. With thousands of people...

Two unidentified males and two unidentified females have succumbed to injuries received in a motor vehicle accident on the P.J Patterson Highway earlier this morning. Reports from the Spanish Town Police are that about 11:00 a.m., a Toyota Hiace...

Thieves made off with J$5.6 million worth of merchandise from a Red Stripe delivery truck last Thursday along a section of the North South Highway. The St Catherine North police are currently investigating the circumstances. Reports are that the.....

Gender Minister Olivia Grange has condemned a video showing a violent confrontation between a man and a woman, which, allegedly, involves a member of parliament (MP). The video has been circulating on social media. In a release yesterday, Grange.....

A St Catherine woman who shares a house with her estranged husband, a church deacon, says she is now living in fear because he is threatening to kill her. "Well, I am more than a little bit fearful but I will continue to use prayer as one of my......

Retired cop Radcliffe Lewis has cautioned wrongdoers from mistaking a more civilised Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for 'soft'. "They must stop it and cooperate with law enforcement because they can't win. One thing I want to advise them, the......

A 56-year-old widow is tired of being alone and is now on a quest to find herself a soulmate. Claudette Kennedy, a resident of Sunning Hill, St Thomas, said her husband passed five years ago. "Mi lonely and mi kids don't live with mi, so mi...

Nickesha Hector is clinging to a thread of hope that her 11-year-old daughter will undergo eye surgery before she goes blind. Her daughter, Lhateecha Hemmings, was diagnosed with cataracts five years ago, and was expected to do corrective...

Local veterinarian Dr Terrina Jones is warning Jamaicans who might have either thought about consuming dog meat, or are doing so, to desist as dogs are considered to be domestic animals and are not ideal to be tabled. Her call comes after...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has vowed to continue to push back at the anti-vaccination movement. He said the campaign by anti-vaxxers is creating challenges. As an example, he pointed to reports of nursing home residents whose...

The Ministry of Health & Wellness has announced that 10 vaccination blitz sites will operate until 8:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, April 12 and 13, 2021, as it aims to get as many Jamaicans inoculated with the first dose of the COVID-19...

Kingstown, St. Vincent (AP) -- La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent late last week,...

Four more Jamaicans have died as a result of the coronavirus, increasing the island's COVID death tally to 676. The deceased are: an 83-year-old male from St. Ann, a 79-year-old male from Kingston and St. Andrew, a 98-year-old female from St....

Nassau, Bahamas (CMC) - A magistrate has sentenced a 21-year-old mother to six months in prison after she presented a false Doctor's hospital COVID-19 test result when she attempted to travel last week. The court heard last Friday that...

Hamilton, Bermuda (CMC) -- Bermuda's Premier David Burt announced on Sunday night that he has tested positive for the COVD-19 and that Bermuda will return to a shelter-at-home policy from Tuesday morning for at least seven days to...

An elderly woman was found wandering along Dodge road in St Catherine on Saturday April 10. The police say she gave her name as Aphredite Latvatski of Smith Avenue, Morant Bay in St. Thomas. She is of brown complexion slim build and is about 5 feet....