Dickon Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada and chairman of CARICOM, and Dr Terrance Drew, prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis, are headlining the agenda at the 2024 Virtual Island Summit (VIS) scheduled for September 9-13, joining a panel of other...

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The City and Guilds Institute is offering a fully subsidised diploma in engineering to secondary-level students, as one of its Skills Proficiency Awards, through a contract with the Ministry of Education and Youth. A 10-year contract was signed in...

LONDON (AP): One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness. When asked what he thought of his teammates’ decision to learn British...

Nothing says “welcome to a new school year” like adding a bit of colour and art to the compound where children will spend most of their days. And for Elite Basic School in Seaview Gardens, the welcome looked quite bright with the help of youths...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in King Weston district and Florence Hill in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. Sunday. The boundaries of the curfew are: North: From the...

A man charged for the stabbing death of another during a dispute over a woman was today granted $800,000 bail in the St Catherine Parish Court. Anthony Taylor, 29, was ordered by parish court judge Janelle Nelson-Gayle to relocate from Spanish...

Assistant General Manager of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at the National Housing Trust (NHT), Dwayne Berbick, has urged Jamaicans to prioritise homeownership as a key strategy for wealth creation. Speaking at a recent Build Wealth...

A man charged for the stabbing death of another during a dispute over a woman was today granted $800,000 bail in the St Catherine Parish Court. Anthony Taylor, 29, was ordered by parish court judge Janelle Nelson-Gayle to relocate from Spanish...

The police have charged a second man over the shooting at the wake of reggae artiste Christopher Martin's grandmother in Cudjoe Hill, St Catherine. Twenty-year-old bus conductor Javauhn Dwyer, otherwise called 'JT, is charged with...

A father was this morning gunned down while dropping off children, including his child, at a school in Christiana, Manchester. The drive-by shooting happened around 8:45 outside the Christiana Moravian Primary and Infant School. During the incident...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has expressed concern over Jamaica's continued use of states of public emergency (SOEs) and called on the Andrew Holness government to ensure that measures used to...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it has been conducting validation checks on the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) restoration of its transmission and distribution infrastructure and reconnection of electricity supply to...

A probe is being undertaken into a major fire that gutted a store in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Thursday. It is reported that about 6:00 p.m. fire was seen coming from a section of Trip Fashion store, which is located at the corner of Young...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Two Jamaican women are scheduled to be deported from Antigua after arriving in the country on Sunday and becoming embroiled in a physical confrontation with an immigration officer at the VC Bird...

Elective surgeries have been suspended at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston after a «small fire» near an operating theatre early Friday morning. There were no injuries, according to Wentworth Charles, chairman of the South East...

The labour ministry is continuing assistance to residents who were severely impacted by the passage of Hurricane Beryl on July 3, through its disaster relief programme the ‘Rebuild Jamaica Initiative’.The hurricane relief effort aims to help...

Port Antonio, Portland: Seventy-four Portland residents on Wednesday received grants from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to assist with the reconstruction of their homes as part of the Government’s Rebuild Jamaica initiative,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two months after Hurricane Beryl ravaged their homes, 162 residents of St James and Hanover were, yesterday, presented with cheques with a collective value of J$21 million by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to help them...

WESTERN BUREAU: Shamoya Green, the St James woman accused of throwing her five-month-old daughter off the roof of a three-storey building, resulting in the child’s death, is to undergo a committal hearing on September 26 to facilitate the transfer...

WESTERN BUREAU: Businessman Michael Lee- Chin, chairman of the National Commercial Bank (NCB), has said that he believes the pending departure of Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke from the Government, to take up a job at the International Monetary...

The driver of the Range Rover involved in Monday's crash in Manchester that killed 10-year-old Treavon Saunchez has been charged. He is 31-year-old Chadwick Young, a music producer and coolant manufacturer from Main Street, Christiana...

The St Catherine North police are probing an incident in which a man who was arrested for alleged illegal firearm possession reportedly escaped police custody in Linstead on Thursday morning. It is reported that about 7:40 a.m. police...

Vulnerable families requiring assistance with school-related expenses for their children can apply to receive support through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's Education and Social Intervention Grant. The grant is available to assist...

A tragic accident early this morning claimed the life of a female pedestrian along Port Henderson Road in Portmore, St Catherine. She is yet to be identified. It is reported that 5:20 a.m., a taxi operator was travelling along the roadway, in the...

An investigation has been launched into the death of a man who was killed during an alleged shootout with the police near Lakes Pen in St Catherine last night. It is reported that about 7:15 p.m., police personnel were on patrol...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – A 28-year-old Jamaican man is to be deported from Antigua after he completes his near two-year prison term for possession of a firearm and ammunition. Magistrate Ngiao Emanuel Tuesday upheld an application from...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security on Wednesday handed over grants to 70 Portland residents to assist with the reconstruction of their houses that were damaged by Hurricane Beryl.  Residents who suffered minor damage got cheques valued...

TASHEPHIA GREEN grew up in a single-parent household, where she was constantly reminded that education is the key to success. She was raised in an inner-city community in St Andrew, where her drive to succeed far outweighed the stigma associated...

FORMER PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) President, Dr Peter Phillips, says he would like to see a system in Jamaica where every child is guaranteed a first-rate education in which they are competent in mathematics, English, and the sciences,...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE SAVANNA-LA-MAR Rotary Club, in Westmoreland, emerged as Good Samaritans to the 90 residents at the Savanna-la-Mar infirmary earlier this week, coming to their assistance with a supply of crucial...

JAMAICA HAS taken a significant step towards inclusivity with the recent amendment to the Copyright Act, prior to the country’s accession to the Marrakesh Treaty on August 28. The treaty, designed to facilitate access to published works for...

Jamaica’s senior citizen population has been described as the fastest growing group in society, with needs which must be given top priority to help them maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. Speaking at the launch of Senior Citizens Month on...

Detectives assigned to the St Elizabeth Police Division seized 216 pounds of compressed ganja, valued about $2.1 million, during a snap raid in Burnt Savanna in the parish on Tuesday. The police say between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. lawmen in...

The Bahamas is celebrating record-breaking visitor numbers and a strong tourism performance that shows no signs of slowing down. The first seven months of this year some 6.8 million tourists visited its shores, 5.6 million by sea and 1.16 million...