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Anxious moments have gripped Manchester High School as staff, students, and parents continue to search for 12-year-old Jayden Smith, a first-former who has been missing since Friday. “Well, little Jayden did not reach home after school yesterday...
Manchester High School first-former Jayden Smith has been reported missing, triggering a high alert by the police. The 12-year-old, from Wales district in Newport, Manchester, has been missing since Friday. He is of dark complexion, slim build...
A police operation in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday resulted in the arrest of three persons and the seizure of a gun and ammunition. Reports are that about 5 a.m. members of the Special Operational Unit went to Portsea Drive in Portsmouth...
‘AgriConnect’, a new mobile application (app) that gives farmers direct access to customers, is expected to come on stream by 2026. The app was developed by a four-member team—Khrisean Stewart, Davado Evans, Ackeem Messam, and Livingston...
There was a flurry of stoppage-time goals in the Premier League on Saturday — and one of them ended Liverpool's 100 per cent start to its title defence. Eddie Nketiah's strike in the seventh minute of added-on time secured Crystal Palace a 2-1...
The Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse has charged a 27-year-old man with the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl. The man, who hails from Ewarton, St Catherine, was charged on Friday. He is answering to charges...
MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a separate weather system taking aim at the Southeast US. The mayor of South Carolina's port city...
DES MOINES, CMC-The Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) Friday confirmed that the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, Dr Ian Roberts, had been arrested by federal immigration authorities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department announcing it was revoking a visa for Gustavo Petro, president of the Latin American country, after he participated in a New York protest...
Investigators in the St Catherine North police division have charged a 16-year-old girl with creating public mischief after she admitted in court that she lied about being sexually assaulted by a 40-year-old man. The teen was formally charged on...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man admitted during a television interview to killing his parents and burying them in the backyard of their upstate New York home eight years ago, then was arrested as he left the studio. The stunning on-camera confession...
A St Catherine man accused of selling land he does not own and collecting $1.5 million from a woman was today granted $500,000 bail with surety in the parish court. Dedrick Smith, 47, a driver of Byndloss district, is charged with obtaining money...
Human rights group Stand Up For Jamaica says it is deeply alarmed at the sharp rise in police-involved fatalities and is adding its voice to calls for the use of body-worn cameras. The organisation says recurring reports of officers not wearing...
The police are reporting that a person of interest in an ongoing murder investigation was among several persons arrested during operations in St Ann today. A man who was wanted on an outstanding civil court warrant was also arrested, along with...
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, on Friday said that the crisis in Haiti has laid bare the truth of transnational criminal networks and the trafficking arms and narcotics, as he called for a global war on gangs to...
The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, through the Board of Supervision, is encouraging Jamaicans to report cases of homelessness. “If persons are aware of individuals who are on the streets or in areas where we may have missed...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has signed three separate visa waiver agreements with African countries amid efforts by the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to have closer cooperation with the African...
Director of the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Division, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Godphey Sterling, is urging organisations across Jamaica to take immediate steps to strengthen their cyber security defences. Speaking with JIS News...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a US Border Patrol official announced Friday, as the state continues its...
Police attached to the Area 3 Agricultural Protection Branch (APB) have arrested two men for praedial larceny following the theft of avocados in Newton district in St Elizabeth on Thursday. The Area 3 APB says about 10:30 a.m., a team conducted...
People’s National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding is not expected to face any immediate challenge to his leadership following the close of nominations for the posts of president and vice president of the party at midday Friday. PNP General...
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather to the southeastern United States in the coming...
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said...
The Pedro Plains police in St Elizabeth have launched an investigation into the death of a fisherman who drowned in the parish on Thursday. He has been identified as 29-year-old Damian Davis of Cross Roads, Pedro Plains, St Elizabeth. Reports...
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has sanctioned the Football Association of Malaysia after finding documents submitted to naturalise seven foreign-born players were doctored. The players — Gabriel Felipe Arrocha, Jon Irazábal Iraurgui, Facundo Tomás Garcés,...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has called for a “structural change” at the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as part of the reform of the education system that is urgently required in the...
All branches of Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) will be opened one hour later today after a “technology outage” delayed their opening, according to an advisory sent to account holders. The advisory did not provide details...
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has advised that Central Avenue in St Andrew will be closed for 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday. It says the road is to be closed between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., each day to facilitate drainage improvement works....
