CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): The American flag was raised yesterday over the United States (US) Embassy in Venezuela for the first time since 2019, a move that highlighted the recent shift in relations between the two countries since then President...
CMC A new report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has highlighted progress in the adoption of front-of-package warning labelling systems for food products in the Region of the Americas, including the Caribbean, and has identified...
As global politics and international law are being redefined by current developments in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, the issue of expanding geopolitical hegemony was among the matters raised at The University of the West...
If you were chosen to be Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), you would have had to be born any where between 1887 and 1901. As a matter of fact, you could not have exited your mother’s womb before or after...
Defence attorney Peter Champagnie, KC, has signalled that he will be seeking bail for Dr Chloe Douett at the next court hearing in a multi-million dollar fraud case that has impacted several financial institutions. Champagnie made the disclosure...
Three Haitian nationals who were allegedly found in a shed in Old Harbour Bay were remanded when they appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. The accused are Radelairie Desir, Emanae Michael and Eliza Syllable, all of Port-au-Prince...
Iran openly threatened a neighbouring country's non-US assets for the first time Saturday, warning people to immediately evacuate the busiest port in the Middle East and two others in the United Arab Emirates. It comes as the US-Israel war with...
TORONTO: Two Canadian brothers, actors and producers of Jamaican heritage, were honoured on the opening night of the 14th annual Toronto Black Film Festival with a career achievement award. Describing Shamier Anderson and Stephan James as award-...
For generations, basic school students in Jamaica have been reciting nursery rhymes — catchy verses whose playful lines often seem nonsensical at first glance. Yet they carry coded messages far removed from Caribbean experience. That disconnect...
WASHINGTON, DC: The Atlanta Jamaican diaspora community is mourning the death of one of its outstanding community leaders, William Anthony “Tony” Gray, who passed away on February 27, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia, after a period of illness. In...
For Jamaican author, Tonian D. Trowers, storytelling became more than a creative pursuit; it evolved into a source of healing, love and cultural celebration. Her debut children’s book, Kam...
Ginger farmers from the Grant’s Bailey community in St Ann gathered on Wednesday with one goal in mind, to strengthen the fight against rhizome rot, one of the most damaging diseases affecting ginger crops. The training session, hosted by the...
The National Association of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists (NAHC) is set to stage its annual trade show the 'Reset, Recharge, Reignite Your Passion' Beauty Expo, tomorrow at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Originally slated for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor, Richard Vernon, is urging stricter oversight of the city’s business community, arguing that commercial operators should face prosecution for improper waste disposal. The practice, he warns, is costing the...
A Minister of Religion is among three men charged in connection with a robbery along the Golden Valley main road in Castleton, St Mary. The police report that the minister of religion, identified as 34-year-old Alphonso Hinds of Olympic Way, St...
Emergency services in St Ann and St Mary have been boosted with the donation of two buses to the fire department. The vehicles, which cost $16 million, were donated by Sandals Jamaica Resorts and were handed over during a ceremony on Friday at...
Twenty-nine-year-old Tevaughn Patterson, otherwise called ‘Bulla Man’, of Bath Mountain district, Frome, Westmoreland, has been charged with the murder of a man whose body was found with chop wounds in a river in the community in March 2021. The...
The two men who were taken into police custody in connection with the gun attack in Denham Town that left a three-year-old boy and his father dead and his eight-year-old brother injured have been charged. They are 30-year-old Dwayne Bowen,...
Regional stakeholders have gathered in Jamaica to undertake a comprehensive review of the response to Hurricane Melissa to improve the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM) and reduce collective risk exposure. The three-day RRM After-Action Review (...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has accepted a recommendation to increase the national minimum wage by four dollars, Director General of Communications Maurice Merchant, has said. Merchant, speaking at the...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has criticised the Government for not providing a comprehensive plan about how the proposed digital service tax will be implemented, arguing that Finance Minister Fayval Williams’ explanation on...
Residents of Bounty Hall and Spicy Hill in Trelawny are once again receiving a regular water supply following repair work carried out by the National Water Commission (NWC) at its Martha Brae Water Treatment Plant. Residents were without...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has declared three days of mourning as the death toll from this week’s landslides in the country’s south climbed to 80. Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives Tagesse Chafo said the three days of...
Police Constable Noel Maitland has been sentenced to life in prison and must serve 32 years and four months before being considered for parole for the 2022 murder of his girlfriend, Donna-Lee Donaldson. Her body has never been found. He was also...
