Five persons have been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following an incident on Old Harbour Road, Spanish Town in St. Catherine on Friday. Charged are: 25-year-old Azikiwe Osbourne of Quarry Drive, Bridgeport.....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to the school district that is anti-police "propaganda....

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie, has asked the Mayor of Montego Bay to provide a comprehensive report by Monday, May 10, on an incident in which a woman who is a vendor at the Charles Gordon market in St. James,....

PARIS (AP) -- The EU Commission did not renew its order for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, the European Union's Internal Market Commissioner said Sunday. "We have not renewed the order for after June. We'll see what...

Jamaica on Saturday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 806. The deceased include two men from St Catherine aged 85 and 60, and a 69-year-old woman from Kingston and St Andrew. Meanwhile, there were 120 new cases with ages ranging.....

The Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) will be designing a pilot project with support from the National Land Agency (NLA) to do mass issuance of titles, of which 7,732 are in the organisation's vault. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal,...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC) - The administration of Premier Andrew Fahie has increased the quarantine period for unvaccinated travellers entering the territory from four days to seven days. During a national broadcast on Friday,...

Authorities in Taiwan are investigating after two gangsters threw 1,000 cockroaches into a restaurant. Police believe the attack on Monday could have been carried out by a criminal organisation in revenge for unpaid debt. CCTV footage released by......

Jamaica on Friday recorded two COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 803. The deceased are an nine-year-old female from St Elizabeth and an 68-year-old woman from Westmoreland. One more case was recorded as a coincidental death, increasing the...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Pearnel Charles Jr, says the Government will continue to create policies and solutions, to address the issue of squatting in the country. Making his contribution to the Sectoral...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The government of Guyana is scheduled to receive its third shipment of 60,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine next week in a bid to increase the fight against COVID-19. Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, says...

An alleged goat thief was hacked to death in Pedro River, St Ann, on Tuesday after he and two other men were cornered by citizens. The deceased has been identified as Victor Walker of a Rosemount address in Linstead, St Catherine. Deputy...

A three-year-old is now an orphan following the death of his father, Renford 'Hector' Mowen, on Tuesday. Mowen, who died in a multi-vehicle crash along the Chapelton main road in Clarendon, was his son's only surviving parent. The child lost his......

Dalkeith 'Kingtson 11' Wright has been to more than 4,000 funerals and he has no intentions of stopping any time soon. For Wright, attending funerals is not only a hobby but his job. The 40-year-old is a 'funeral crier'. "Me go the 14 parishes go....

Jamaican dancers Kimiko Versatile and Inspire are excited to have both done choreography for the music video of Sean Paul's new track, Scorcher. "I was contacted by Jay Will, a director that I have worked with a few times before. He had seen my....

For years, Leon Baker, 37, says he was "crippled" by degrading taunts that his peers would hurl at him because of his appearance. "I associate my complexion to that of carrot. I was walking in Port Antonio and a lady asked me if she could touch......

As the number of gun murders within St James continues to rise, detectives attached to the Freeport Police Station were summoned to yet another scene on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Marvin Allen, 37, a tiler, from Cart....

Elsada Turner, 60, may be the biological mother to two boys, but is considered to be mother to several of her co-workers at Facey Commodity Co. Ltd. Turner, a devout Christian, works as a warehouse and delivery supervisor at Facey. Many of the...

One man who the Westmoreland police say was being sought for murder was fatally shot after he allegedly challenged members of a police patrol in Savanna-la-Mar on Thursday afternoon. The incident happened minutes after members of the security...

A 13-year-old male who sprayed water on an man ended up in hospital for seven days. The incident happened on March 25, in a area where a water party was being held. The boy was reportedly stabbed in his side after he splashed water on the man....