The delivery and installation of modular classrooms at the Culloden Infant School in Whitehouse, Westmoreland marks a new phase in the restoration of hurricane-affected schools by the Sandals Foundation. Students at Culloden Infant will start the...
As communities across western Jamaica continue the journey of recovery following Hurricane Melissa, the Seprod Foundation brought comfort, joy, and reassurance to children and families through Christmas treats held on December 16 at Crawford...
Priscilla Duhaney, attorney and spokesperson for Hear the Children’s Cry, is expressing hope that the child-rights advocacy group will be invited to Parliament to air its opposition to proposals that would decriminalise consensual sex between...
As Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby continues his push to rehabilitate and reintegrate the city’s homeless population, some 200 people were on New Year’s Day fêted at St William Grant Park. Individuals came from all sections of downtown Kingston to...
The GraceKennedy Foundation Birthright Programme will not take place this year with GraceKennedy instead placing its focus on supporting Jamaica’s national recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. According to the Foundation, the next...
A newly unsealed United States Justice Department indictment contends that Nicolás Maduro’s government was fuelled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the US with thousands of tons of cocaine. Maduro is charged alongside his...
Concern simmered in Cuba, one of Venezuela’s most important allies and trading partners, a day after the Trump administration warned it could turn its attention to the Caribbean nation. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government I’d be...
The way has been cleared for classes to resume at Hague Primary School in Trelawny, as dozens of residents of the Trelawny Infirmary,who had been housed at the school since the passage of Hurricane Melissa last October, have been relocated to...
The police in Portmore, St Catherine have charged two men for the armed robbery of a man whose car was stolen. Charged with robbery with aggravation, possession of a prohibited weapon, using a firearm to commit a felony, and conspiracy are 21-...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced other inmates’ sentences Sunday to mark the 78th anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain. It was not immediately clear whether...
The Meteorological Service has issued a flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of St Mary, Portland, St Thomas, Kingston, St Andrew, St Catherine, Clarendon, and Manchester. The watch will remain in place until 7:00 a.m. on Monday...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald...
A detainee at the Hunts Bay police lock-up has died after falling ill. He has been identified by police as 24-year-old Kevin Foster, a mason of Portmore, St Catherine. The police report that about 8:40 a.m. on Saturday, January 3, Foster, who was...
BRIDGETOWN, January 4, CMC – Restrictions that temporarily barred United States airlines from operating in parts of the Caribbean and South American airspace were lifted early Sunday, allowing flights to resume after a day of widespread...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean 'Diddy' Combs....
An 82-year-old Manchester man who had been hospitalised after being injured in a crash in early December has died. David Clough of the Water Mount district succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Clough had been in hospital since the December 9,...
A curfew has been imposed in sections of Crawford, St Elizabeth. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 3 and will run until 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 5. The boundaries of the curfew are: SOUTH: Along the coastal line from Galleon...
President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry and ask American companies to revitalise it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro in a raid isn’t likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices. Venezuela’...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Uncertainty gripped Venezuela on Saturday as people scrambled to understand who was in charge of the South American country after a US military operation captured President Nicolás Maduro. “What will happen tomorrow? What...
On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church – with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and stained-glass windows – seamlessly transforms into a space of quiet contemplation. It’s in this Gothic Revival church in Pasadena,...
A plane carrying deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has arrived in New York following his capture by US forces, an AP source says At around 5:25 p.m., a person in custody was escorted out of the plane believed to be carrying Maduro. The...
The police in Portmore, St Catherine on Friday seized 93 assorted rounds of ammunition along Dyke Road. Reports from the Portmore police are that about 5:30 a.m., a team on patrol observed a man along the roadway behaving in a manner that aroused...
A Manchester man accused of attacking a policeman while intoxicated at a police station has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He is 42-year-old Trevor Johnson, a resident of Lower Christiana. Reports from the Mandeville...
A St Catherine man has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting the six-year-old daughter of his partner while bathing her. The 38-year-old vendor is charged with sexual assault and sexual touching. Reports are that the man was bathing the...
Four additional families in hurricane-impacted parishes have received container houses through the Hurricane Melissa Relief Mission spearheaded by Custos of Clarendon, Edith Chin. Two of the units were handed over in Arlington, St Elizabeth, and...
