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The leadership of Glenmuir High School in Clarendon is dismissing criticisms of how the institution handled the situation of the assault of an autistic student by another at the school. A video of the incident has recently been making the...
The Trelawny Municipal Corporation is reporting that it collected $326 million in property taxes for the financial year 2023/2024. This information was disclosed to The Gleaner by Chief Executive Officer at the corporation, Wayne Palmer....
A St Catherine man charged for allegedly using a fictitious cheque to buy goods and to obtain cash at a supermarket was remanded when he appeared before the parish court today. Kevon Gray, 30, unemployed of Central Village, is...
Brandon Brissett, a 28-year-old auto mechanic of Phoenix Park Village, Portmore, St Catherine, has been hit with several charges following allegations that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl. Brissett has been charged with...
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – One week after a British national was attacked and severely injured by a shark, Tobago authorities on Friday announced the reopening of all beaches on the island. The Office of the Chief Secretary (OCS) thanked the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the US as children are expected to enrol in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday. The move took...
Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake has pleaded with students of Grange Hill High School in Westmoreland not to embrace the culture of crime and violence. Blake was part of a high-level security and education team that visited the school on...
Two policemen who were charged with the 2012 murder of George Green inside a store in Christiana, Manchester, have been acquitted. Police Constable Eveneene Gallimore was found not guilty on Thursday by a seven-member jury following a trial which...
Thirty-six-year-old Teino Carnegie, who suffered multiple injuries after he allegedly jumped from a hotel window after being discovered with an illegal gun, has been granted $300,000 bail. When the matter was mentioned in the St Catherine...
Jamaica has moved up eight places in the latest World Press Freedom Index and is now the number-one ranked country in the Caribbean. The country now ranks 24 out of 180 nations in the 2024 release of the World Press Freedom Index, with a score of...
SANTIAGO, CHILE, CMC - The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has expressed concern that low-income countries are falling further behind in a more fragmented world with less trade, and less...
The police are now processing a crime scene at Innis Bay beach, at Long Road in Portland, where the body of a man was discovered with multiple chop wounds. The body, which has not yet been identified, was discovered shortly after 5 a.m. by a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – At least 12 people have been reported dead following the torrential rains that drenched Cap-Haitien for several days causing widespread floods and landslides, the authorities have confirmed. The Municipal...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto has postponed next week's planned reopening of schools until further notice, as heavy rains and floods that have killed more than 200 people continue. The president in his state of the...
