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Jamaican athletes made it two from two in the long jump at the NCAA Division One Outdoor Championships as Ackelia Smith was victorious in the women’s event tonight, following Carey McLeod’s victory in the men’s event on Wednesday. Smith, the...
CARICOM heads of Government welcomed the meeting between heads of state and Government of the Caribbean and the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, in The Bahamas today. Harris co-hosted the US-Caribbean leaders meeting with...
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump said today that he was indicted for mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, a remarkable development that makes him the first former president in United States history to face criminal charges by the...
Forty-year-old Mark Brown, who stabbed a man to death six years ago, was today found guilty of murder. He was remanded and is to be sentenced on July 28. The crown led evidence that in 2017, Brown and Clive Spencer, a 34-year-old labourer of...
Heavy rainfall has led to substantial damage to farms and road networks in South St Elizabeth and South Manchester, says the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining. The ministry says it has swiftly taken action by dispatching assessment...
The police are now at the scene of a murder and shooting at a house on Boone Hall Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew. Reports are that residents heard loud explosions about 3:30 pm and summoned the police. The Gleaner understands that the body of a male...
The Jamaica Rifle Association (JRA) has suspended all activities at its Mountain View Avenue range in St Andrew following the revocation of the dealer's licence of its president, Major John Nelson. “Please note that a cease-fire is now in...
The parishes of Hanover, St Thomas and Manchester will select their parish queens this weekend to participate in the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen Competition 2023. Festival Queen parish coronations are scheduled to take place at the Jockey Factory...
MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his aides are bracing for a potential indictment in the classified documents investigation as prosecutors handling the probe were spotted Thursday at a Miami courthouse where...
The St Catherine fugitive who is wanted for murder in the United States and had been hiding in Jamaica since 2006 was today remanded in custody when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Kenroy 'Sharkie' Hardie will...
The Supreme Court has dismissed a claim by IT firm GeoTech Vision for state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company to pay more than US$100 million for terminating a contract to supply over 19,000 tablets to schools in 2019. e-Learning won its...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A 73-year-old American was rushed to the hospital in The Bahamas on Wednesday after being bitten by a shark. The police report that the woman, who is from Marshall Town, Iowa, was climbing the stern ladder of a 32-...
On the heels of a recent travel advisory issued for Jamaica by the US State Department, Tourism Minister Edmond Bartlett is headed to the North American country to seek to assure travellers that the island is a "safe, secure and seamless...
Two Kingston men have been charged for the May 13 murder of 39-year-old vendor Shelton Watson, on Main Street in Highgate, St Mary. They are 30-year-old vendor, Dushane Gentles, of Q Lane, Kingston 13, and 37-year-old...
Chairman of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation Norman Scott is highlighting the need for insurance for market vendors following the recent fires in the parish. Twenty stalls were gutted during a suspected arson at the Linstead Market on...
A new classroom block is to be constructed at Holmwood Technical High School in Christiana, Manchester. This follows Cabinet's approval of a $184-million contract to C&D Construction and Engineering Limited for the undertaking. Minister...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among those killed and at least...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti's most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince's National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis...
The People's National Party (PNP) has announced the appointment of Dr Andre Haughton to the Opposition shadow cabinet. Haughton, who is the party's caretaker for West Central St James, has been named Opposition spokesman on...
WASHINGTON, CMC – In pursuit of shared prosperity and security, and in recognition of the close ties between the United States and Caribbean nations, Vice President Kamala Harris will announce on Thursday new initiatives to strengthen US-...
NEW YORK (AP) — A thick, hazardous haze that's disrupting daily life for millions of people across the US and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange, could persist into the weekend. With weather systems expected to...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party...
