NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — The United States law enforcement officials have arrested a Jamaican with cocaine in beef patties at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says officers intercepted Chantal Alecia Bedward on arrival on...
JAMAICA has recorded its first ‘probable’ case of Zika virus-related microcephaly. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Winston De La Haye last night confirmed that the ‘probable’ case involves a baby who was born in December at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, to a mother who...
A 64-year-old man, who allegedly tried to ship onions stuffed with 26 pounds of ganja to Antigua, was offered $300,000 bail when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Friday. Pershard Smith was held on January 5 after he went to the...
IN expressing support for the legislative amendment to the Child Marriage Act, Reema Carmona, wife of President Anthony Carmona, told the story of how her grandmother became a child bride at age 13 and was unable to realise her dream of becoming a teacher. Carmona said...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday January 17, 2017 – There has been some more serious fallout in and outside the Moravian Church in Jamaica which has been shaken by allegations of sexual misconduct within its ranks. Church president Dr Paul Gardner and his deputy Jermaine Gibson have resigned...