LONDON — Britain has recorded its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since May, with 2,988 new infections announced on Sunday. Like other European countries, the U.K. is seeing the number of infections rise as society reopens after...
The National Democratic Movement (NDM) is calling on Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness to arrange a quick and low-key swearing-in ceremony so that he can "attend to some of the more urgent business of the country." The NDM...
HAVANA, Cuba, Sep. 6, CMC – The government of Cuba has denounced what it calls a “media blockade” at the international level on the country’s success in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. In a message on Twitter,...
Detectives attached to the St. Andrew South division have arrested and charged a man with the offence of wounding with intent, resulting from an incident which occurred on Monday, August 31. He is 32-year-old Shammar McLean, of Silverdor Drive,...
HAVANA — A small outbreak of COVID-19 cases has prompted authorities to re-close schools in a central Cuban province only a week after they opened. Ciego de Avila schools director Bárbara Rodríguez said 75 of the province’...
Police Officers assigned to Denham Town Enhanced Security Measures (ESM), seized one firearm and several rounds of ammunition on Darling Street, Kingston on Thursday, September 03. Reports from the Denham Town Police are that about 8:20 p.m., the...
The Hardware & Lumber Rapid True Value store in Lane Plaza, Kingston, will be closed on Sunday, September 6, 2020 for deep cleaning and sanitising following the confirmation that an associate has tested positive for COVID-19. The store...
Attorney-at-law O'Neil Brown, who represents the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate Daniel Lawrence, says they will be filing for a magisterial recount as soon as possible. This after the returning officer for Westmoreland Eastern cast a...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), in congratulating the Jamaica Labour Party on their victory in the recent general election, says the Holness-led administration should now move expeditiously to address the pressing...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Sep. 6, CMC – The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Martyn Roper, on Friday approved a law making same-sex partnerships legal. “Today we will end the discrimination being suffered by Caymanians and others...
Reggae singer and percussionist Denver ‘Feluke’ Smith, has died. His caretaker and friend, Crystal Campbell, confirmed to The Gleaner, that Feluke passed away about 2 p.m on Saturday, at a hospital in Mexico, while...
The official count of votes in Westmoreland Eastern has ended in a tie. The Jamaica Labour Party's candidate, Daniel Lawrence, and the People's National Party incumbent, Luther Buchanan, have each polled 4,834 votes. At the...
The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited has stepped up its deep cleaning and other internal sanitisation measures after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, September 4. The company continues its strict observation of all...
Twenty-two-year-old Nicholas Pinnock, a landscaper of Valley Minor, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, was arrested and charged with simple robbery following an incident along Minard Road, Brown’s Town, in the parish on Wednesday, September 2....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An underground gas pipeline near a mosque exploded during evening prayers outside Bangladesh’s capital, leaving 16 Muslim worshippers dead and dozens injured with critical burns, officials said Saturday. The...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring three tropical waves in the Atlantic storm basin, one of which is very likely to form into a tropical depression. A tropical wave is now located over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is...
Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness will be sworn in as prime minister of Jamaica in a ceremony on Monday, September 7, 2020. The swearing-in ceremony will commence at 3 p.m. The ceremony will be streamed live. In accordance with the...
Eighteen-year-old D’Angello Dennis, of Saxton Boulevard, Berkshire Court, Spanish Town in St. Catherine, has been charged with larceny from the dwelling in connection with an incident at his home on Friday, August 14. Reports from the Spanish...
LE PECQ, France (AP) — Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death and who wanted to show what he expects will be a painful...
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (CMC): The United States government has welcomed the victory of Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday, saying that the two countries share a commitment to free and fair elections. Holness led his Jamaica Labour Party (...
A woman has been charged with wounding with intent following an incident in Race Course, Falmouth, Trelawny, on Sunday, August 23, 2020. Charged is 45-year-old Diahann Foster, otherwise called ‘Sunshine’. Reports are that about 6:30 p.m...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s coronavirus caseload surpassed 4 million on Saturday, deepening misery in the country’s vast hinterlands, where surges have crippled the under funded health care system. Initially, the virus ravaged India...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The government of Guyana says it is exploring the use of different medications, including the vaccine developed in Russia, as Caribbean countries continue to record deaths from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....
Investigators assigned to the St. Elizabeth Police Division are probing the circumstances surrounding a vehicular crash that claimed the life of a woman on the Hodges main road in the parish on Friday, September 04. She has been identified as...
Former Minister of Health, Dr Fenton Ferguson, has suffered a shocking upset at the hands of the Jamaica Labour Party's Michelle Charles. Ferguson was seeking a seventh term as member of parliament in St Thomas Eastern. He defeated her...
