- Reprieve for immigrants in NY: 'No arrest in court houses without warrant' 10:09 am
- Ganja found after driver abandons vehicle in Manchester 10:05 am
- Caribbean pays tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre 9:29 am
- Easter blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill at least 207 9:15 am
- T&T police commissioner apologises over Buju room search 9:05 am
- Prayer for the day 11:01 pm
News
Yellow Vest anger burns in France, fuelled by Notre Dame fire
PARIS, France (AP) — French Yellow Vest protesters set fires along a march route through Paris yesterday to drive home their message to a government they see as out of touch with the problems of the poor: that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral isn't the only problem... Read More
Trump's legal team breathes a sigh, takes a victory lap
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable. Read More
St Elizabeth farmer dies in crash
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — The Junction police are probing the circumstances surrounding the fatal crash that claimed the life of a man on the Cheapside main road in St Elizabeth on Wednesday. Read More
Reprieve for immigrants in NY: 'No arrest in court houses without warrant'
NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — The New York State Office of Court Administration has halted the ability of US federal immigration officials to arrest Caribbean and other immigrants in state courthouses without warrants. Read More
Ganja found after driver abandons vehicle in Manchester
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Several knitted bags filled with ganja were yesterday found in a motor vehicle, which the driver abandoned in Pours, Manchester, the police are reporting. Read More
Caribbean pays tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles, has paid tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre, who died Saturday at the age of 87. Read More
Easter blasts at Sri Lanka hotels and churches kill at least 207
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Read More
T&T police commissioner apologises over Buju room search
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has apologised to Jamaican reggae artiste Buju Banton, whose hotel room in Port of Spain was raided on Saturday by cops – claiming to have a search warrant. Read More
JCF reviews missing person protocol after 8-year-old's death
COMMISSIONER of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the protocols surrounding missing persons is to be reviewed. Read More
PM Holness in Atlanta
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness left the island on Thursday for Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, where he is to deliver the keynote address at the inaugural Jamaica Chamber of Commerce... Read More
Five shot, two fatally, in St Andrew
FOLLOWING the shooting of five people in separate incidents in Standpipe, St Andrew, on Thursday night, the police are now trying to determine whether the incidents are connected. Read More
PHOTO: Scoot over
This man, spotted at a section of Mandela Highway on Thursday, makes room on his bike for what appears to be freshly cut grass. Read More
PHOTO: They're off!
A pool of Jamaica's 100m runners practise starts inside the Truman Bodden Sports Complex yesterday ahead of today's beginning of the 48th Carifta Games. (Photo: Collin Reid courtesy of Courts, Guardian Life, Supreme Ventures and Alliance Investments) Read More
PHOTOS: Good Friday sightings
The Bible says...Snapped in East Queen Street Baptist Church in Kingston yesterday,this woman is a picture of concentration as she follows the scripture reading in her Bible. (Photos: Garfield Robinson) Read More
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