Haiti Earthquake: Three years later
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Three years after a powerful earthquake devastated this French-speaking Caribbean country, Haitians are commemorating the event with a low key activity underscoring the...
View ArticleGuyana/Trinidad in top-of-the-table CT20 clash tonight
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC - A much-anticipated top-of-the-table clash between defending champions Trinidad and Tobago and arch-rivals Guyana will be played to a packed Queen’s Park Oval when the...
View ArticleFirearm seized in Kingston, man arrested
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Crime fighters from the Island Special Constabulary Force Operations Team seized an illegal firearm and arrested a man along Old Hope Road in the vicinity of Lady Musgrave Road,...
View ArticlePolice seize ammo cache in August Town
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police seized over fifty rounds of ammunition in the St Andrew community of August Town on Friday.
View ArticleAmbassador Vasciannie to address Jamaica50 closing ceremony in Atlanta
WASHINGTON DC - Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Stephen Vasciannie, is slated to deliver the keynote address at an awards ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 19 which will culminate a...
View ArticleTrench Town crop - greenhouse flourishes in tough inner city community
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The tough South St Andrew community of Trench Town, having produced some of the island’s top musicians such as reggae icon Bob Marley and Alton Ellis, is now yielding bounty of a...
View ArticlePolice kill three men in St Andrew
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Three men were shot and killed by the police along Acadia Drive in St Andrew mid-morning Saturday.
View ArticleNationwide 5K refreshes competitors
NATIONWIDE News Network staged its second 5K walk in Kingston yesterday morning, attracting 135 competitors in an event that the Cliff Hughes-owned radio station intends to repeat in its drive to...
View ArticleMinistry seeks new lessee for Braco, denies OCG claims
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Security says it is seeking a new lessee for its Braco Resorts Hotel in Trelawny, which has been named in the current Cabinet/Contractor General dispute.
View ArticleDismissed Manchester teacher ordered reinstated
A Manchester teacher is now awaiting reinstatement following her dismissal by the school board for what it said was her failure to prepare lesson plans.
View ArticleAtkinson: OCG statements hurting Jamaica's reputation
ATTORNEY General Patrick Atkinson says that uncontrolled media releases from the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) will only serve to hurt Jamaica's reputation internationally.
View ArticleOUR head leaves next month
AHMAD Zia Mian, the Pakistani-born director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) since February 2009, is to demit office in a month's time.
View ArticleMan of the cloth attacked by gunmen outside Kingston church
A pastor was yesterday shot and injured just outside his church in Fletcher's Land, Kingston, sparking anger among residents of the inner-city community who condemned the attack.
View ArticlePolice hunt proprietor of shady New Kingston business
THE police are on the hunt for the proprietor of the New Kingston business suspected of fleecing scores of persons out of millions of dollars under the guise that they were making down-payments for...
View ArticleINDECOM probes Rivoli boy's killing
THE Independent Commission of Investigations has launched a probe into the killing of a 17-year-old boy by the police in Rivoli, St Catherine, on Wednesday night.
View ArticleUS Jamaicans view IMF deal as island's most pressing need
NEW YORK, USA — An early agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is being viewed as Jamaica's most pressing need among Jamaican nationals here.
View ArticleCurfew in Grants Pen
NORTH: Along Grants Pen Avenue, from the intersection with Acadia Drive to the intersection with Markland Drive;
View ArticleUS repatriates more than 160 Haitians intercepted at sea
In a statement on Friday, the Coast Guard said that the 270-foot long USCG Cutter Bear intercepted the “grossly overloaded” 40-foot sailboat southwest of Long Island, Bahamas, on January 4.
View ArticleFirearm and ammunition seized in Old Harbour Bay
Reports are that between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., the officers were on an operation in the area when upon searching a building, the weapon, a M1 Garand Rifle, six 0.3 rounds, and one 0.4 round, were...
View ArticleHanna, psychiatrists to visit juvenile centres
The team will include the president of the Medical Association of Jamaica and noted psychiatrist Dr. Aggrey Irons; psychiatrist Dr. Myo Kyaw Oo; chief executive officer of the Child Development Agency...
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