"My son is a good person," said Claire Bailey, the mother of Markland 'CJ' Hayles, the man accused of killing his girlfriend on Father's Day. Hayles' 21-year-old girlfriend, Tashika McKay, who was eight months pregnant, was found with her...

Listening to Paula Riley as she shares excerpts of her life story will leave one shedding a few tears of sadness and joy. At age 53, the mother of seven recently received her GED (credentials equivalent to a high school diploma) in the US state.....

Senior Parish Judge Lori-Ann Cole-Montague yesterday pledged to make an example out of a foul-mouthed teenager who, among other things, wrestled with a policewoman in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The teen, Ernest Trail, was at the...

A video of a policewoman carrying an elderly man to a vaccination centre at the Bahia Principe Hotel in Runaway Bay, St Ann, last Saturday, has warmed the hearts of many. The cop, Woman Constable Torra Lawrence, a St Thomas native, joined the...

Kreshena Campbell's joy was evident as Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced a relaxation of COVID-19 measures imposed on the entertainment sector last year. Campbell, who operates a bar along the 'hip strip' in Olympic Gardens, St......

Carline McIntosh, a mother of three, was providing for her children until a cancerous brain tumour disrupted her life. For the past two years, her medical condition has robbed her of sight in her right eye, while significantly reducing her ability....

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - The Guyana government has signalled its intention to impose visa requirements targeting nationals from Haiti and Cuba as the country grapples with an influx of illegal migrants. Last weekend, the authorities...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as the White House acknowledges it will miss two key vaccination benchmarks and as concern grows about the spread of a new variant...

Five more Jamaicans have died as a result of COVID-19, moving total virus fatalities to 1,042. The deceased include: two men from St James aged 60 and 42, a 63-year-old woman from Manchester, a 69-year-old man from St Mary, and a 50-year-old woman.....

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - The Antigua and Barbuda government has successfully tabled a motion to extend the current state of emergency, even as opposition legislators complained of the hardships being experienced by citizens as the...

The May Pen Hospital in Clarendon has received two additional defibrillators at a cost of $500,000, through a kind gesture by Chairman of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), William "Billy" Shagoury. Mr. Shagoury, who is...

Tashika McKay's four-year-old daughter would have had the title of 'big sister' in a few weeks, but she was robbed of the chance, as her mother, who was eight months pregnant, was killed on Father's Day in Rhoden Hall, Kellits, Clarendon. Kerona....

Before completing her high school studies, Julisan Street was concerned about how she would afford university. However, her questions were answered when she was named the first female recipient of the Lafayette-Jamaica Scholarship in 2018 to...

A man, seemingly of unsound mind, briefly took possession of a police service vehicle which was parked outside the police post in Lucea, Hanover, yesterday, much to the amusement of passers-by. The man locked himself in the vehicle for several...

"Things cyah continue like this! How so much police fi a drive round ina di area and it come like nothing to di gunman dem so?" said Sharon*, moments after witnessing a drive-by shooting that took place metres from the makeshift police station in.....

Horane Fuller and Cleon Redwood are brothers who grew up in Denham Town with a desire for change. After decades of dreaming about creating a place for people to enjoy good food and good vibes, with a little 'uptown' style, the brothers are now......

The family of a St Mary man is dismissing suggestions from the police that their patriarch, Leric Silvera, killed himself last Thursday. Silvera, 63, was discovered hanging by a length of rope from a tree in Crescent, a community near Jack's...

Before last July, Owen Murray would not dare to venture outside of his home on Sixth Street in Greenwich Town, St Andrew, out of fear of being caught in a gun battle. But since a zone of special operations (ZOSO) was declared in the Kingston 13.....

Hopewell Cemetery running out of space With only a few vacant plots remaining in the the Hopewell Cemetery, the Hanover Municipal Corporation and the Hanover Parish Development Committee (PDC) are now in the process of identifying lands for a...