A Portmore, St Catherine loan officer has been accused of pocketing money given to her by a customer to pay the woman’s loan. Forty-year-old Kimberley Ricketts has been charged with embezzlement. A court date is being finalised. Reports from the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A new school term opened on Monday in Trinidad and Tobago with Education Minister Dr Michael Dowlath declining to identify the institutions where police officers will be stationed, as the authorities move to curb the...

A man died in a crash early this morning along Windward Road in Kingston. The crash, which reportedly occurred around 3 o’clock, happened in the vicinity of Vauxhall High School. The man's 2013 white Nissan Wingroad motor car was damaged in the...

Some 60 buses were deployed today in the roll-out of the National Rural School Bus Programme. Transport Minister Daryl Vaz, along with Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon and Finance Minister Fayval Williams, was among those in attendance...

Member of Parliament-elect Christopher Brown of the People’s National Party (PNP) says he will bring a different kind of politics to the St Mary South Eastern constituency and will work to serve the needs of the people. The first-time politician...

As a teenager in Kingston, Janice Mills dreamed of becoming a nurse, the kind of career that promised purpose and stability. However, with a single mother struggling to stretch every dollar, a college education was never an option and that dream...

City and Guilds International has just announced the results of the June 2025 sitting of its Math and English Skills examinations. Over 30,000 candidates from more than 250 Ministry high schools, HEART Academies, and private institutions...

The JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation through its LIFE Accelerator Programme is providing holistic support to deserving students. In addition, the foundation awarded over J$17 million in scholarships and bursaries to high school and tertiary students for...

Microfinance company Loans Mart Financing is offering back-to-school loans from $10,000 to $200,000. “Accessing a loan is easy. We’ll need simply your ID, TRN and two passport-size photos. No letter, no pay-slips, and no bank statements are needed...

The bashful 20-something Erica Raymond of yesteryear would hardly recognise the assured, life-affirming 62-year-old she became. Indeed, that young girl who blossomed into a former corporate regional sales director, who today guides professionals...

PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten, CMC – The Princess Juliana International Airport Operating Company (PJIAE) in St Maarten on Sunday reported that all passengers were safely evacuated after a WestJet Boeing 737-800 aircraft experienced a landing gear...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname...

The Spanish Town Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the shooting death of a man at his home on St John's Road last night. He has been identified as 43-year-old Stephen Passley, otherwise called ‘Slick’. Reports are that about 8:20 p.m.,...

BOSTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, Massachusetts have deported a Jamaican criminal fugitive and alleged child rapist who was...

A Portmore, St Catherine truck driver has been charged after allegedly biting a police officer during an arrest over a traffic offence in Kingston. Forty-two-year-old Glenroy Williams is charged with unlawful wounding, resisting arrest, and...

A St Catherine woman who allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to a school for a teaching position has been charged. She is 28-year-old Sonya Bailey of Frazers Content in Spanish Town, who has been charged with fraud. Bailey was charged on...

A celebratory motorcade hosted on Saturday by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Trelawny Northern Member of Parliament-elect Tova Hamilton took a tragic turn when one of the participants was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. Reports are that the...

Following Saturday’s official recount of ballots for the St James Southern constituency, the People’s National Party’s Nekeisha Burchell remains the winner of the seat. Burchell received 6,483 votes—a 199-vote difference over the 6,284 received...

IN AN April 6, 2016 article, I said, “The burial grounds of enslaved Africans are very hard to find in Jamaica. They were buried in arbitrary places in unmarked graves”. And, in some parts of Jamaica, the narrative is that, wherever there are piles...

TORONTO (AP): As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious. From predicting the potential destruction of humanity to a...

Hello Mi Neighbour! Ah boy, what a life eeenh. What happens whenever you try to make a point during a discussion and someone denies you the opportunity because they think your point maybe pointless? If yuh don’t mine sharp, be it a friend, family...

If you spend any time gardening, you probably understand what I mean when I say it feels good – despite the lifting, sweating and straining involved. Yes, exercise is good for our bodies, but there’s something about digging in the dirt while...

NEW YORK (AP): Growing up as the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica, Stacey Watson didn’t see herself in the characters of the books she read. Now 28, she wants to be a book editor who helps promote a more diverse range of story protagonists so...

The Benevolent Missions of Atlanta (BMA’s) two decades of helping to advance primary education in both Jamaica and Metro Atlanta took centrestage in the Peach State capital city recently. For BMA, it was a major milestone. The nonprofit...

PAHO/WHO: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched the Suzan McLennon-Miguel Caribbean Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Leadership Award, a new regional honour recognising exceptional leadership in the fight against antimicrobial...

Gordon Brown’s story is one of bold ambition, quiet determination and the belief that with hard work and the right opportunities, anything is possible. Born and raised in Kingston, Gordon first left Jamaica at 17, a recent graduate of Campion...

HE WAS born Marvin Wilson in St Elizabeth, but migrated to St Ann where he currently resides, and is known in northwestern Jamaica entertainment circles as ‘Boyous the Contortionist’. He also refers to himself as an acrobat. He has a lithe and...

MEDICAL STUDENT Yanique Jackson was struggling financially, particularly with tuition fees, and there were many times “when I felt overwhelmed”, then came the Dr Barry Wint Memorial Scholarship Programme, which “gave me hope”. “It gave me...

A police constable was on Monday freed of an unlawful wounding charge after successful mediation which led to him paying the complainant, a district constable, $400,000. Constable Ricardo Fray was also freed from a malicious destruction of...

The Jamaica Labour Party's Donovan Williams has been declared the winner in Kingston Central following the official count of votes cast in the constituency in Wednesday's general election. The preliminary count on the night of the election had...

Human rights group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has urged the Dr Andrew Holness-led administration to resume the vital work on constitutional reform with strong bipartisan efforts, ensuring an inclusive and participatory process following its win...

Individuals who are experiencing trauma as a result of crime are being encouraged to seek assistance from the Ministry of Justice’s Victim Services Branch offices islandwide. Director of the Victim Services Branch, Dionne-Dawn Binns, noted that...

A St Ann brother and sister have been charged for stabbing a woman during a physical confrontation, which left her hospitalised. Thirty-year-old Lionel Howell, otherwise called ‘Kemar,’ a labourer of Mammee Bay, and 33-year-old Jestice Howell,...

The three Haitians who were held in Angels, Spanish Town, St Catherine and later found to have overstayed their time in Jamaica have been ordered released from custody due to time served. Fedia Lizzare, Nancy Lizzare, and Liberal Schnieder on...

President of the Trelawny Justices Association, Ken Grant, is calling for justices of the peace in the parish to fulfil their mandate of making routine visits to lock-ups, saying this is important to ensuring that the rights of persons in custody...