The 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the United Kingdom Government, have arrived in Jamaica. The announcement was made by Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton on Twitter a short while ago. The vaccination appointment...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC - Police say they are searching for two people, including a nurse, in relation to falsifying coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination cards issued by the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The government has since issued a...

NEW YORK -- New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox has prompted United States health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus. Recommending masks for everyone and...

The police have issued an advisory for persons who would need to travel to and from airports during curfew hours. Persons are being asked to ensure that they have a copy of their travel itinerary. And the person doing the pick-up should also have a....

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum is warning that the peak of the wet, heat and hurricane seasons are forecast to bring an increase in wet days and wet spells, heatwaves, and tropical cyclone...

Jamaica has recorded five more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 1,187. Meanwhile, there were 180 new cases with ages ranging from one day to 95 years, pushing the total to 52,684 with 4,172 being active. Of the new cases, 107 are women and 73.....

World Athletics Championships discus throw silver medallist Fedrick Dacres is Jamaica's first major track and field casualty at the Tokyo Olympics. Dacres, who has been recovering from a hand surgery done late last year, missed the final of the...

Jamaica qualified for the final of the 4x400m Mixed Relay at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Friday. The team that consisted of team of Sean Bailey, Junelle Bromfield, Stacey Ann Williams, and Karayme Bartley placed third in a time of 3:11.76 minutes,......

Jamaica's Olympic Games Shot Put participation is over. The nation's duo of national record holder and champion Danniel Thomas-Dodd, and Lloydricia Cameron did not advance to the final of the Women's event on Friday morning. Thomas-Dodd...

Actor Lacell Parnell, more popularly known as 'Girlie' or 'Mr Handsome', said that he is still haunted by his 2009 conviction for a raft of sexual offences in the United States of America. Parnell, 51, was found guilty of forcible touching,...

Jamaican artist Laura Facey says she would like to see her Redemption Song statue spruced up to give it greater appeal. The statue, which depicts a nude male and female celebrating their new found freedom, is positioned at one of the entrances to.....

Motivated by the soaring prices of ground provisions, university student Shandae Bascoe decided to do farming, but not in a traditional way. He grows his crops, mostly vegetables, using a modern-day farming technique called soilless aeroponics,......

A policeman who has been serving in the Jamaica Constabulary Force for the past 19 years was yesterday granted bail when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court for an alleged breach of the Anti-Corruption Act. Corporal Allen...

Steven Witter, who first came to public attention in March by challenging cops at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine, was remanded in his latest appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. When he was last in court on June 11,......

At least $8 billion will be spent to build a new prison, which will replace the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre located in Kingston. Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, said lands have already been identified for what is said.....

Principal of the Barracks Road Primary School in Montego Bay, St James, Maxine Coates-Brown, believes that despite being located between several troubled inner-city communities, the education of the institution's students has not been hampered....

Nine-year-old Annu Yah Kahdi Stewart dreams of one day becoming an influential leader, like Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero who advocated for the upliftment of black people. Stewart, who is homeschooled, has co-authored a book on...

A Mandeville taxi driver has been arrested after beating another with what appeared to be a baseball bat just outside the gates of the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester. He then attempted to drive over the injured cabbie. The...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Attorney General Dale Marshall has been tasked with providing the Government of Barbados with a legal opinion on the criminal and civil liability associated with mandatory COVID-19 testing and vaccination....