A drunk man died in a horrific shark attack after he waded into the sea to urinate at a Brazilian beach. Marcelo Rocha Santos, 51, had his hand and a chunk of his leg bitten off by the predator at Piedade Beach in Jaboatao dos Guararapes on...

Residents of Valdez Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine are now protesting the shooting death of a member of the community allegedly by soldiers. They are claiming that the 18-year-old was shot in cold blood and disputed claims that he was armed...

Deportation orders have been issued for two of the seven Jamaicans who were held trying to illegally enter the United States when the boat they were travelling in crashed in Florida last month. The two are being processed by the United States...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - The Government of Haiti on Thursday received 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States through the COVAX Facility. The country is the fourth in the region to receive these donated...

Jamaica on Saturday recorded two COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 1,136. The deceased are a 91-year-old male from Kingston and St Andrew and a 59-year-old male from Westmoreland. Meanwhile, there were 65 new cases with ages...

BERLIN (AP) -- More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to...

Twelve years after been brought before a judge as a juvenile, a young Jamaican, Marie Rattigan, is yet again standing in a courtroom in the United States of America, this time seeking to balance the scales of justice in matters concerning minors......

An ex-convict was moved to tears when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday, as he lamented being wrongly accused of threatening to kill two policemen. The man told parish judge Jacqueline Wilcott that he spent eight......

A distraught father is now struggling to cope with the disappearance of two of his children over the past three months. Dennis Berry, a father of nine from Dalvey, St Thomas, said his 14-year-old daughter, Sammara Berry, went missing since last.....

She was a little girl from a small community with dreams that many might consider far beyond her reach. However, Dr Racquel Gordon- Adlam was determined to defy all the odds to become Jamaica's first female interventional cardiologist in June 2019....

A motor vehicle crash along the Old Harbour main road in St Catherine claimed the lives of two young men yesterday. The deceased have been identified as 20-year-old Javoy Pallamino, a farmer, and Mickeal Reid, 22, a customer service agent both of....

A group of women wept openly on Fourth Street in Wilton Gardens, popularly known as Rema, following the slaying of Winston Muir, on Sixth Street on Tuesday night. "Him nuh trouble people at all. Him is hard-working and jovial, and who kill him...

Julian Hyde effortlessly guides his horse to clear the hurdle during a showjumping exercise, doing so with an elegance that he has garnered over the past two decades. Hyde has a natural inclination for sports, born into a line of athletes led by.....

Middle Quarters, a tiny village just outside of Black River, St Elizabeth, is famous for its peppered shrimp. Before the pandemic, vendors raced to see how they could entice drivers and passers-by to purchase their sumptuous products. But due......

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -Jamaica has launched a knowledge, attitudes and practices study on salt consumption in the country as part of the efforts to inform consumers on healthy lifestyle choices. "We have to tackle health from two...

The Child Care and Protection Act is being reviewed to address new and emerging issues and to ensure harmonisation with other pieces of legislation concerning children. "The process is advanced, as a draft Cabinet Submission has been...

MIAMI -- Norwegian Cruise Line is challenging a new Florida law that prevents cruise companies from requiring passengers to show proof of vaccination against the COVID-19 virus. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Miami federal court, contends that...

Fatalities from COVID-19 have not increased in the past 24 hours, as the Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded no deaths directly linked to the infectious disease. This means the death toll from the disease remains at 1,134 One new death is also....

A curfew has been imposed in Whitfield Town, Kingston 13. The security measure took effect at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 13, and will remain in place until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 15. The boundaries of the curfew are: * NORTH - Along Delacree Road....

A 14-year-old has been taken into custody by the Savanna-la-Mar Criminal Investigation Branch in relation to yesterday's gun attack in Russia in the parish that claimed the lives of a common-law couple. The Westmoreland police said that the 14-....