ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Water will be trucked to several St Elizabeth communities, which are without water due to problems at two of the National Water Commission’s (NWC) systems.

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ST JAMES, Jamaica - Constable Ricardo McKay, who was assigned to the Anchovy Police Station in St James died last night at about 10:20pm in Content, Hanover.

HANOVER, Jamaica - A homemade firearm and two 9mm cartridges were seized in Dundee Pen in Lucea, Hanover on Monday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Police Federation Chairman Sergeant Raymond Wilson remains in hospital today (Tuesday, May 21) after falling ill on Saturday, May 18.

According to Jarod Whitely, principal of the Osbourne Road-based institution, despite numerous warnings some parents have refused to settle outstanding accounts.

NEW YORK (CMC) - A major international credit rating agency is warning of more Caribbean sovereign debt restructurings ahead of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) annual meetings in St Lucia this week.

MIAMI (CMC) - United States federal prosecutors have indicted three foreigners in a US$27 million cocaine bust in the Caribbean Sea.

KINGSTON, Jamaica- Sixteen-year-old Akita Francis and Byron Bennett, also 16, both from Kingston addresses have been reported missing.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Police say that there has been a noticeable and “alarming” increase in the number of crimes, especially murders and robberies, committed by people driving rented motor vehicles.

MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) -- Parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off -- survivors of a deadly tornado that barrelled through their community.

SUPREME Ventures, the island's largest gaming company, doles out at least one billion dollars annually to the Culture Health Arts Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund.

JUST over 79,000 unused spaces are available in the island's public schools, Education Minister Ronald Thwaites revealed yesterday.

THE Jamaica Public Service says it will be investing more than

SUPREME Ventures, the island's largest gaming company, doles out at least one billion dollars annually to the Culture Health Arts Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund.

Senator Floyd Emerson Morris continued his climb up the ladder of history on May 17, 2013 when he was sworn in as the first blind president of the Jamaican Senate. The extraordinary story of the life of Floyd Morris and his dizzying rise from quiet Bailey's Vale, St Mary, to the heights of power in the Jamaican Parliament, was told in the award-winning Desmond Allen Interviews written in November 2004. Read on and be amazed:

Yes, he is a coward, he is supposed to set an example... running away because times are hard, sends the wrong message. Whatever happened to patriotism?

GOVERNMENT backbencher Mikael Phillips wants the Ministry of Education to accelerate the placement of trained teachers in basic schools.

TRANSJAMAICAN Highway Limited says it is finding it difficult to keep up with the frequency of breaches and theft of its fencing along Highway 2000.

National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) executives last Friday — dubbed 'Wear Red Day' — supported the Heart Foundation of Jamaica's mission to educate Jamaican women about their risk for heart disease. Here, Nadeen Matthews (left), senior assistant general manager for strategy, marketing and communications, looks on with approval as Belinda Williams, manager for group public relations & corporate affairs, positions the foundation's 'Red Dress' pin on the lapel of NCB's group managing Director Patrick Hylton.