CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) -- A priest told mourners at a memorial Thursday for slain President Jovenel Moise that too much blood is being shed in Haiti as authorities warned of more violence ahead of his funeral. The Reverend Jean-Gilles...

The partially burnt body of 60-year-old farmer Cynthia Hinds was found with chop wounds at her farm in St Margaret's Bay, Portland this morning. It is reported that Hinds' feet and hands were severed and that the body had chop wounds...

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC - Antiguan government workers will be required to either get the COVID-19 vaccine or get tested for the virus every two weeks at their own expense. The vaccination policy was communicated in a memorandum...

TOKYO (AP) -- Tokyo hit another six-month high in new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, one day before the Olympics begin, as worries grow of a worsening of infections during the Games. Thursday's 1,979 new cases are the highest since 2,044 were...

Four fire units and several firefighters are now responding to a blaze at the Hydel Group of Schools in Ferry, St Catherine. The fire has been restricted to the administrative block. The blaze reportedly started at 7 this morning. It is unclear...

Jamaica has recorded four more COVID-19 fatalities, increasing the tally to 1,167. Those who have died are: A 57-year-old male from St James A 75-year-old male from St. James A 72-year-old female from St James, whose death was formerly under...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be going after parents and guardians involved in the trafficking of their children. Sub-Officer in charge of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Vice Squad, Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations.....

More women are aiding the illicit activities of criminals in the Corporate Area, according to two police division commanders. Their involvement, the cops stated, serves as a comfort to wanton criminals who continue to wreak havoc in society. "......

For more than a decade, Latina Bromfield-Robinson, 37, said she was ridiculed for not having children. But after much heartbreak, the Neis Mountain, St Elizabeth, resident is the proud mother of an almost four-year-old girl. "It was very...

A St Andrew man was remanded in custody yesterday after the judge heard allegations that he abused his four-year-old child for falling off the bed. The accused man pleaded not guilty to cruelty to a child when he appeared in the Kingston and St......

Up until five years ago, Omar Moodie was skipping from car to car, wiping windshields at Devon House in St Andrew. Like many persons who take on this sometimes demeaning job, Moodie started when he was young. He was only 13 years old when he...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force will be going after parents and guardians involved in the trafficking of their children. Sub-officer in charge of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Vice Squad of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime...

Firefighters at the Black River Fire Station in St Elizabeth will be temporarily relocated to another facility to facilitate renovation work at their current base. Desmond McKenzie, the minister of Local Government and Rural Development, said...

Preparations are in high gear for this year's staging of the annual Salt Spring Literacy Summer Camp, which is being spearheaded by the St James Police Community Safety and Security Branch (CSSB). Some 100 children between the ages of six and 17.....

Corporate Jamaica is being urged to break free of the age-old tradition of looking at tattoos and piercings with a jaundiced eye. Visible tattoos and unconventional piercings have been growing in popularity, and many young persons have been...

The Women's Centre in St Ann was the recent recipient of a sizeable donation of feminine hygiene supplies, courtesy of the Sandals Foundation and the Pack for a Purpose programme. The donation consisted of sanitary towels, tampons, panty liners,.....

WASHINGTON, CMC - The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa F. Etienne on Wednesday called on the year-old COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Regional Network to keep "a close eye" on the emergence and...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) -- COVID-19 cases tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray. "Our staff, they are frustrated,...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Desmond McKenzie, says that work has been completed on phase one of the $60-million renovation of the Black River Fire Station in St. Elizabeth. "The first phase includes building a perimeter...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is condemning all forms of violence against the nation's children. The Prime Minister was speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (July 20), where he addressed the case of Nashawn Brown, a four-...