KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly a half-million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan...

Primary schools across St Elizabeth have placed literacy at the forefront of their teaching agenda for the 2025/2026 academic year. The institutions are determined to strengthen fluency and comprehension skills among the young minds of the parish...

SOUTH DAKOTA, CMC – A Jamaican man has pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of South Dakota in connection with a long-running scheme to defraud a California woman. Dwayne Anderson, 35, of Hanover, pleaded guilty to a federal...

Munro College and football head coach, Kemar Ricketts, have agreed to part ways amid the first round of the 2025 season of the ISSA Schoolboy Football Competition. Ricketts was the coach last season and returned at the start of this season....

Jamaica has recorded another week of double-digit murders, according to the latest serious crime statistics published by the Jamaica Constabulary Force on Sunday. For the period 31 August to 6 September, 10 Jamaicans were killed. Among those...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is to decide today whether to seek magisterial recounts in Trelawny Northern and St Catherine East Central, where the party says the number of rejected ballots exceeded the margins of victory. The...

JN Money Services has expanded its remittance services into 10 new countries, deepening its global reach and strengthening financial lifelines for more migrant families. The new territories are Gambia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Ghana, Honduras, India,...

LONDON: The Jamaican diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK) is urging the newly-elected government in Jamaica to avoid complacency, having been voted in for a third consecutive tenure in office. The message from a variety of academics in the UK...

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Audrey Deer-Williams, has called on senior citizens to remain active, engaged, and purposeful as the nation celebrates Senior Citizens’ Month. Speaking at the National Senior...

Custos of St Ann, businessman Joseph Issa, is advocating for the establishment of backgammon clubs in high schools across Jamaica. Issa, who with his 17-year-old son, John, is an avid backgammon player, made the call after hosting the fifth annual...

Nearly 200 wards of the State from western Jamaica will be starting the new school year with brighter smiles and school supplies, courtesy of the Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF). The children were hosted at the foundation’s annual back-to-school...

Schools across Kingston and St Andrew reopened smoothly on Monday, following adjustments to the 2025/26 academic calendar to accommodate the September 3 General Election. This was confirmed by Director of Regional Educational Services in the...

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says one driver in the government's rural school bus programme was recorded as having 14 speeding violations during the first official roll-out of the buses today. In a post on Monday evening on social media platform...

Three men, including twin brothers, have been charged with house breaking and larceny and receiving stolen property in relation to the theft of motorcycles and All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). Charged are 28-year-old deliveryman Kevorne James, 28-year...

A man died on Friday after being struck by lightning in Bethel Town, Westmoreland. The deceased has been identified as 38-year-old O’Dean Porter, a farmer of Marl Road in the parish. The incident occurred along Ventura Road in Bethel Town. It is...

A Westmoreland furniture maker has been charged for allegedly failing to make furniture ordered by a woman and for failing to return her money. Thirty-six-year-old Rayon Bromfield, otherwise called ‘Eggie’, of Gordon District in Whitehouse, has...

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister...

The Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston will be closed between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to facilitate scheduled electrical infrastructure works. PAC Kingston Airport Limited, the operator of the airport, on Monday advised...

The decomposing body of a man with gunshot wounds was found in a ditch along a road in Ramble, Manchester on Sunday. He has been identified as 33-year-old Oraine Kesley, otherwise called 'Bad Bush', of Good Hope in the parish. Police report that...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Federal Aviation Administration ban on United States commercial flights to Haiti’s capital that expired Monday has been extended to March 7, 2026 because of the risk that powerful gangs might attack flights with...

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...