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The police are reporting a doubling of the number of illegal rifles seized than in the last month. At the same time, murders have declined 21 per cent since the start of the year, contributing to a 15 per cent reduction in all major crimes.

System gun at large 8:20 pm
One firearm code-named Geraldo, which is among five guns linked to 10 murder and shooting incidents for which the police have fingered the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, is connected to a cluster of incidents spanning 18 years, eight months and 30 days, a ballistics expert assigned to...

Higher yet higher 7:20 pm
A proposal for the first 20-storey residential building to be erected in Jamaica has received outline planning permission from the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)

Caribbean seen as 'bright spark' in tourism rebound

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

MADRID, Spain (CMC) — The novel coronavirus pandemic will likely cost the global tourism sector trillions of US dollars in lost revenue in 2021, the UN's tourism body said, calling the sector's recovery “fragile” and “slow”.

NSWMA glitters with waste to art

Monday, November 29, 2021

A life-sized rotating trophy titled We Did It was enough to lead Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) to the top prize in the annual Waste to Art Competition staged by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA)

250 pounds of garbage removed from Fisherman's Beach

Monday, November 22, 2021

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — It took 15 volunteers from the Sandals Foundation a mere four hours to remove 250 pounds of garbage from the shorelines and seabed of Fisherman's Beach in the coastal town of St Ann's Bay, their way to mark International Coastal Clean-up (ICC)...

UK's Johnson: Climate deal sounds 'death knell' for coal

Monday, November 15, 2021

LONDON, England (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday hailed the UN climate summit as a “game-changing agreement” that sounded the “death knell for coal power”, although he added that his delight at the progress on fighting climate change was...

Former solicitor general Douglas Leys cops big climate leadership award

Monday, November 15, 2021

“This award acknowledges the leadership role that multilateral development banks can take in building climate resilient futures,” said an elated Douglas Leys, QC, former Jamaican solicitor general, after grabbing the Global Leadership Award for his work with...

Jamaica at COP26

Monday, November 8, 2021

The first week of the global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland — referred to as COP26 because it's the 26th meeting or conference of the countries that are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — wrapped up last...

Chasm opens between COP26 words and climate action

Monday, November 8, 2021

GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) — COP26's first week saw keynote pledges to end deforestation, phase out coal, and mobilise trillions for green investment. But observers say there is a gulf between host Britain's proclamations and the emissions cuts that must be...

'No one is safe until everyone is safe'

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday delivered a sobering message at the World Leaders Summit at the start of the global climate conference in Glasgow, telling delegates the same urgency with which the world has responded to the novel coronavirus pandemic needs to be applied to the...

Slater highlights importance of COP26

Saturday, October 23, 2021

COP26, the next annual United Nations climate change conference, has been described by many as the last chance for the world to take a unified position on this looming crisis, and new British High Commissioner to Jamaica Judith Slater is in no doubt about the importance of this...

Jamaica launches plan to achieve climate goals

Saturday, October 2, 2021

The Government on Wednesday launched Jamaica's NDC Implementation Plan, signalling its move to begin executing strategies towards achieving the country's climate goals.