Security experts are claiming that the type of explosive powder found in the luggage of a man destined for Jamaica, from the Miami International Airport this week, is one of the main ingredients in locally made...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Frustration summed up what several passengers were feeling following cancellations and delays, after severe weather conditions across the United States, Canada and Europe over the Christmas weekend forced the closure of airports and grounded several...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: JetBlue Airways added an extra flight for passengers from the United States to facilitate visitors to Jamaica yesterday, despite the current weather conditions in New York. The arrangement was made to make up for flight cancellations...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A FOUR-WAY showdown now looms in North Trelawny where aspirants are lining up to succeed Dr Patrick Harris as the People's National Party's (PNP) standard-bearer for the constituency.Harris, a medical doctor, has indicated that he will not be facing ...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: Mayor of Falmouth Collen Gager is confident that his town will be ready for the arrival next week Friday of cruise liner Navigator of the Seas, with its 3,400 passengers and 1,200 crew members....
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Canadian tourist Paul Martin, who is accused of slitting his wife's throat, was yesterday denied bail by Resident Magistrate (RM) Icolyn Reid during a preliminary hearing in the Falmouth Resident Magistrate's Court. Martin was remanded on a charge...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Imagine having your own personal weather station in your backyard which not only provides local updates, but allows you to share this information with the National Meteorological Service as well as the rest...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The Acting director of the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies, Dr Joan Latchman, is warning Caribbean countries to be prepared for an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 after Trinidad and Tobago...
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The following are online reactions to yesterday's lead story, 'Feeding the down and out', about the Downer family's 24-year tradition of giving meals to the needy on Boxing Day.
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials will meet with their Haitian counterparts in Jamaica early next week to discuss various projects for the earthquake battered French-speaking Caribbean country....
Published:Wednesday | December 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A senior Ministry of Health official declared yesterday it would be redoubling its efforts to address the local skin-bleaching phenomenon by stepping up its education programmes as well as instituting stricter enforcement of regulations aimed at clamping down....
Port Antonio, Portland: The Portland police have identified the dead man from a Boxing Day motor vehicle accident at Bryan's Bay in the parish as 23-year-old Karan Latouche of a Non-Such district address. The other people...
Yesterday's trek around the Corporate Area marked the 24th year that the Downer family has been feeding homeless people during the Christmas season. The family, of at least 30 members, was up before the crack of dawn on Boxing Day preparing roughly 250 wholesome box ...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC):The 71-year-old father of Jamaica-born gun victim George Lynch has spoken of his anguish that his son's murder remains unsolved more than seven months after his death.Lynch, 40, was shot dead on May 5 outside a Hamilton Parish...
Omar Ralph, the ex-policeman who was captured by lawmen yesterday, just days after he was listed as a major person of interest, is to be handed over to the Westmoreland police to face criminal charges.Ralph is wanted on...
Orlando, Florida:Jamaica broke all prior visitor arrival records this past Christmas weekend, despite the adverse weather conditions that forced the cancellation of several flights operating in northeast United...
While thousands recognised the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25 with various forms of celebration, director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA-Jamaica), Pastor Wenford Henry, called for the Adventist membership and the nation ...
The Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) in Toronto, Canada, has raised more than CDN$10,000 for victims of Tropical Storm Nicole, which devastated Jamaica in September.President of the JCA, Audrey Campbell, presented a cheque for CDN$10,153.87 ...
NEW YORK (AP): A winter storm made travel torturous in northeast United States yesterday, dropping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and made motorists think twice about hitting after-Christmas sales....
TIGHTLY swaddled in pink, baby Maya was the perfect Christmas gift to her 32-year-old mother, Marjorie Weir, and the people of Poor Man's corner in Yallas, St Thomas....
A public-health expert at the University of Technology (UTech) is stressing the importance of health education for all teachers, from kindergarten to the tertiary level, to combat the rising levels of ill health among adolescents.Professor Winston...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):An earthquake measuring 5.1 shook Trinidad and Tobago last night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury.The National Earthquake Infor-mation Center at the United States Geological Survey said the quake...
IT COULD take some time before the Government takes the bill to Parliament which would pave the way for debate on whether a prime minister should be stripped of the right to call an election whenever he or she so desires.Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
Port Antonio, Portland: One man was killed while four others were left battling for life at hospital following a Boxing Day motor vehicle accident at Bryan's Bay in Portland, shortly before 3 p.m.Up to press time, neither...
Taxi operators are expressing concern about crime and safety in downtown Kingston following the Christmas Day murder of one of their colleagues.In reacting to the death of 37-year-old Fitzroy 'Donovan' Smith, who was originally from Manchester but lived...
