PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A knife attack outside Suriname ’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday. Officials said the victims included four of the attacker’s children and neighbours who...
Law-enforcement officials are seeking to quell public criticisms of the near three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm Stocks...
Caribbean Cup winners Mount Pleasant Academy maintained their impressive form by edging Montego Bay United (MBU) 1-0 in yesterday’s Jamaica Premier League match at Jarrett Park in Montego Bay. In a highly anticipated match, Mount Pleasant’s Raheem...
Cavalier ended Harbour View’s four-match unbeaten run in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) under Vassell Reynolds, beating the Stars of the East 1-0 at the Harbour View Mini Stadium on Christopher Ainsworth’s second-half strike yesterday. Cavalier...
Discovery Bay Bauxite is committing to continuing its collaborative efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Melissa in St Ann. Since the passage of the hurricane on October 28, the bauxite company has joined forces with several other entities to...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Captain of the Barbados Tridents Andre Applewhaite has secured a two-year contract to play for Connecticut United FC in Major League Soccer’s NEXT Pro league. The talented 23-year-old left back finally secured a deal...
RABAT, Morocco (AP): Zinedine Zidane watched again and Riyad Mahrez scored again as Algeria reached the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Burkina Faso yesterday. The 34-year-old Mahrez took his tally to three goals in two...
SUNDERLAND, England (AP): With each goal in his career-best scoring run, Dominic Calvert-Lewin is advancing his claims for a recall to the England squad ahead of the World Cup. The striker netted for the sixth straight game to earn Leeds a 1-1 draw...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The West Indies trio of Andre Russell, Jason Holder and Sunil Narine starred with the ball to help the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders defeat the Gulf Giants by 32 runs and book their spot in the International League...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) staff have admitted that the pitch prepared for the Boxing Day Test was skewed too heavily in favour of bowlers, as an attempt to avoid a dull draw instead triggered a frantic two-day...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): Kieron Pollard played a captain’s knock to lead MI Emirates to a convincing eight-wicket victory over the Dubai Capitals in the International League T20 here on Saturday. Chasing the Capitals’ paltry total of...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop believes that in the coming months Cricket West Indies (CWI) will have to decide whether Roston Chase is the right man to lead the Test team. In their final Test series for...
Effective January 1, Jamaicans in the United States (US) sending money to relatives in their homeland will have to pay a one per cent excise tax on those remittances. The one per cent tax is set out in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passed by the US...
The Urban Development Corporation’s (UDC) Fireworks Festival returns this Wednesday, December 31, continuing a cherished national tradition that brings Jamaicans together as the year draws to a close. The decision to proceed with the festival comes...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Immigration leaders in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate have condemned President Donald J. Trump’s proposed rule that would punish Caribbean and other immigrant families for lawfully accessing health care...
Ricardo Motley, a father of two from McIntyre Villa in Kingston, watched from the sidelines as his 10-year-old son performed in the Christmas dance at the close-out ceremony of the Child Resiliency Programme at Holy Family Primary and Infant School...
Laughter took centre stage at the annual Christmas Comedy Cook-up on Boxing Day, as the ballroom of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel filled with patrons eager for jokes, jabs and much-needed relief after a challenging year. Now in its 22nd staging, the...
For the fourth consecutive year, the JN Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to Mustard Seed Communities, spreading holiday cheer and delivering much-needed practical support through its annual Comfort for Christmas initiative. This year’s...
LA PAZ (AP) Before setting out for the wide, white mountain, Ana Lia González Maguiña took stock of her gear: A chunky sweater to guard against the chill. A harness and climbing rope to scale the 6,000-metre summit of one of Bolivia’s tallest...
MARACAY (AP) This was not the Christmas that Mariela Gómez would have imagined a year ago. Or the one that thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants would have thought about. But Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and quickly ended...