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Different accounts are emerging about what took place on the ill-fated boat ride that left two people dead on the weekend. While the captain of the boat is claiming that it...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): A Dubai appeals court on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant. The pair landed in court after an Emirati woman complained about the public kiss...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Antigua's Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack has signed the order revoking the knighthood of alleged fraudster R. Allen Stanford....

LOS ANGELES (AP): A STRONG earthquake south of the United States-Mexico border yesterday swayed high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona...

TWENTY WOMEN are learning new skills with the intention of becoming self- employed after spending a number of years in prison for drug trafficking.

THE LONG-promised national building code is now a little closer to reality. Months after a major earthquake ravaged Haiti and forced the issue of the quality of buildings in Jamaica back on the front burner the Cabinet has issued instruction for the drafting of legislation to establish a national building control framework for the island.

THE TOWER Street Adult Correctional Centre, Kingston, is a very busy place at mid-morning last Wednesday. It is visiting day and in the parking lot are grim faces, bearing packages designed to bring cheer to someone on the other side of the towering, forbidding red brick wall.

THE MINISTRY of Health has launched an investigation into an outbreak of gastroenteritis at a primary school in rural Jamaica to determine if it was spawned by the trucking of bacteria-laced water to the institution.The...

Western Bureau:After losing several personal items and a place to rest, members of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) branch in Montego Bay will have to find another home following a massive fire at the Barnett Street...

FIVE OF 11 pieces of expensive artwork loaned to a number of government agencies by the National Gallery more than three years ago are still missing.Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Olivia Grange told Parliament's Standing Finance Committee on...

STANDING FINANCE Committee of Parliament's examination of the 2010-2011 Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure in Gordon House on Thursday almost ended prematurely after the Opposition called for a divide vote during a squabble over Government's energy...

Ernie Smith, the attorney for West Rural Member of Parliament Joseph Hibbert, has firmly dismissed reports that his client was arrested during an interrogation exercise on Thursday.Smith said he was with Hibbert...