WESTERN BUREAU: Negril has taken another step towards cleaning up its streets and public spaces with the installation of five new garbage skips, thanks to a partnership between the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), the Negril Destination Assurance...

Jamaica Product Exchange (JAPEX) 2025 is expected to be the biggest ever with a record number of industry stakeholders, including 116 international buyers from more than 25 countries. An annual event, organised by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist...

Family, friends, colleagues, and members of the business community gathered at Webster Memorial United Church in St Andrew on Monday to celebrate the life of Doris ‘May’ Berry, founding director of Mayberry Investments Limited. Mrs Berry,...

FOUR OF the world’s largest service organisations – Kiwanis International, Lions Clubs International, Optimist International, and Rotary International – have united for Celebrate Community Week, a global movement that highlights the power of...

ON SUNDAY, August 31, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange officially opened the Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) Exhibition Gallery, by way of a ribbon-cutting exercise. Construction had started in 2009, and...

Today's ISSA daCosta Cup first-round match between Zone B rivals Rusea's High and Frome Technical High had to be called off during half-time due to lightning and pouring rain. The match was being held at the Collin Miller Sports Complex in Lucea...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has dismissed suggestions that he could soon make way for new leadership after presiding over a period in Jamaica’s history that has seen significant reductions in crime, poverty, and unemployment, among other...

The St Andrew South police have charged a 24-year-old man for the gun attack that left a 14-year-old girl dead and two other persons injured along Hill Avenue in April. David King, also known as ‘Dado’ and ‘Breadback’, is charged with murder,...

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The St Lucia government says it will be providing a bonus to all public sector workers in December, along with their regular monthly salaries. A government statement Monday quoted Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre as...

Communities across the island not yet covered under the National Rural School Bus Programme are being encouraged to submit requests for inclusion to the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC). Speaking on the Jamaica Information Service (JIS)...

Several dancehall artistes are slated to perform at the swearing-in ceremony of Dr Andrew Holness as Prime Minister, Tuesday afternoon. The ceremony which is scheduled for 4 p.m. at King's House in St Andrew, will see performances from Nesbeth,...

Commanding officer for the St Andrew South police, Senior Superintendent Damion Manderson, has urged the division's most wanted man, Courtney Ashley, to turn himself in to the nearest police station, following Monday night's double murder of a two...

Church Teachers’ College in Manchester is repositioning itself to attain university status. According to Principal of the institution, Dr Garth Anderson, its graduates have gone on to become not only teachers but school leaders, lawyers,...

The police in Manchester on Monday arrested a man who is suspected of carrying out a robbery along Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew. They say cash, including Jamaican and United States currencies, and the car he was driving have been seized. The...

A 40-year-old May Pen, Clarendon man has been charged for allegedly using a man's bank card to make purchases totalling over $73,000. Charged with unauthourised access to computer data and simple larceny is Kemar Smith, who works as a hospital...

When parliament officially reopens on Thursday, it will not be as lopsided as it was coming out of the 2020 general election, with the People's National Party (PNP) having more say with 28 members of parliament, a 100 per cent increase from its...

The Michaelmas Session of the St Catherine Circuit Court opened in Spanish Town Tuesday morning with scores of persons answering the call to serve as jurors. Seventy-six members of the public turned out for jury duty, drawing commendations from...

A two-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man were killed in a drive-by shooting along Grenmeade Road, Kingston 20, Monday night. The toddler has been identified as Tajaun Jackson of a Nannyville, St Andrew, address, while the man is Kimarley Powell...

WASHINGTON, CMC – Four CARICOM countries have been listed in US President Donald Trump’s “Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2026” submitted to the United States Congress. According to...

Vendors at the Falmouth Market in Trelawny are again calling for proper restrooms at the facility amid complaints of non-functioning toilets, lack of water and raw sewage flowing on the floors. The vendors also report that only two of eight...

Dear Mr Bassie, I understand that I need a digital photo to apply for a British passport online. Any guidance on this would be appreciated. – WP Dear WP, Persons will need to obtain a digital photo to apply for a passport online. They must...

STUDENTS ATTENDING the recent JN Financial Academy summer camp were encouraged to be bold when making decisions, understand their value, and embrace the opportunities available in the global economy during a practical presentation on...

FOR MOBOLJI Bryan, pan chicken vendor and chef, food is more than a meal, it is an expression of love and artistry. “Food is my life, not just a hustle. It’s my love language,” declared the 27-year-old entrepreneur from Frenchman, Slipe, in...

RECEIVING A pension can mean an individual is able to live comfortably, or better than their working years, but conversations about retirement planning have to be ongoing with the issue being taken seriously for that to happen says Othneil Blagrove...

PRESIDENT OF the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Metry Seaga, has urged stakeholders in Jamaica’s financial sector to rethink the rigid requirements imposed on entrepreneurs seeking to access financing. This, as he pointed out that...

Motorists are being advised by the police to expect delays along Hope Road, East Kings House Road, and surrounding areas in St Andrew on Tuesday as Prime Minister-designated Dr Andrew Holness is to be sworn in at King’s House. The event is...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is warning against the practise of fake kidnappings. Station Manager at the National Strategic Anti-Gang Division, Detective Inspector Paulette Wynter-Crossfield, explained that teen girls are staging...

LONDON (AP) — A British aristocrat and her boyfriend were sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday for killing their newborn daughter while on the run from authorities. Constance Marten, 38, and her boyfriend Mark Gordon, 51, a convicted sex...

Three of the seven people who were arrested and charged over an illegal slaughterhouse that was discovered in Central Village, St Catherine, last December were today freed as the prosecution withdrew its case against them due to a lack of evidence...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A judge in Zambia on Monday sentenced two men to two-year terms in prison with hard labour after they were convicted of plotting to kill the president using witchcraft. The men, a Zambian and a Mozambican national, were...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gunmen attacked an armoured vehicle in a community near Haiti’s capital, leaving two police officers injured and one driver dead, authorities said Monday. The attack occurred over the weekend in the once peaceful...

Thirty-five-year-old St Andrew businessman Nicholas Morgan has been charged with fraud in connection with a failed car-buying transaction. According to reports from the Portmore Criminal Investigation Branch in St Catherine, between January and...

The St Ann police are seeking the public’s help to identify two men who were gunned down along the Dunnsville main road in St Ann on Saturday. The police report that about 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, residents in the community heard explosions and...

An American firefighter has been charged after a gun and ammunition were reportedly found in his luggage at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, on Sunday. Forty-eight-year-old Roland Douglas II, of Guntersville, Alabama...

NEW YORK (AP) — A potential strike has been averted that could have shut down the nation’s largest commuter rail system this week. Unionised workers for the Long Island Railroad announced they voted overwhelmingly Monday to authorize their labour...