ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica —The Black River Service Hub of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA)  is scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, and will resume services nearly a year after it was damaged along with much of the waterfront town by Hurricane Melissa. The ITA on Monday said it has since implemented the necessary measures to restore services at the location. The reopening takes place ahead of the 45-day timeline...

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC)—The Donald Trump administration says it has filed denaturalisation actions in multiple US district courts against one Haitian and two Cuban nationals among 40 individuals accused of “serious offences,” including acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special-needs man. Filed between August 21 and October 2, 2026, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said these complaints represent “the...

Glen Washington is banking on a new arrangement with an Atlanta-based company to break him in new markets. The veteran singer and Donsome Records signed a contract in September that will see them booking shows for him as well as increasing his music’s presence on digital platforms. Washington, best known for songs like Kindness For Weakness and Rise And Shine, is eager to make a name in countries he has...

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC)—United States authorities on Monday named a Jamaican woman among 16 individuals in connection with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country. The Justice Department said Staciann Pollion Davis, 42, a lawful permanent resident, had been charged by criminal complaint with voting as an alien. It said Davis allegedly voted in the November 2024 general election in Clarke County, Alabama, despite not...

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP)—Cuba has denied any connection to 90 fuel shipments that United States (US) authorities said they intercepted en route to the blockaded communist island. Washington imposed a de facto energy blockade on Cuba in January, threatening to sanction any country that supplies fuel to the island of 9.4 million people. The only fuel allowed into Cuba is that purchased in the United States by private entrepreneurs, which accounts...

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Commanding Officer of the St Andrew South Police Division Senior Superintendent Damion Manderson said the police are following several leads into Sunday's double murder on Balcombe Drive in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. Reports are that sometime after 7:30 pm, residents were hanging out at their gates when a car drove up, and men alighted from the vehicle and fired at the group. Two men and a female were injured...

Even as defence lawyers protest the rigidity of the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, 2022, calling for a review by legislators, proponents have pointed to a section that allows offenders with up to 19 rounds of illegal ammunition to evade the mandatory minimum sentences being balked at by the legal fraternity. If convicted under Section 45 of the Act for unauthorised possession of ammunition, the Sixth Schedule outlines the...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Head of the St James Police Division, Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels has revealed that cops will be seeking additional support to address traffic congestion along the Rose Hall stretch of roadway. The congestion comes as work continues on the $67.5-billion Western Water Resilience Project, with sections of the roadway blocked off as Vinci Construction works to install metres of cast-iron pipeline. The disruption has led...

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AFP) -- Powerful Hurricane Simon, a Category 3 storm on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, has left one person dead and caused property damage as it moved slowly along Mexico's Pacific coast, authorities said Monday. The victim was a 71-year-old man who "died when a wall collapsed in Chilpancingo" in the southern state of Guerrero, Governor Evelyn Salgado said during the daily presidential press conference. The storm has...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) -- German police are investigating a 16-year-old and 19-year-old for allegedly using a robot to sexually assault a teenage girl, and live-streaming the act on social media, officials said Monday. The victim, aged 16, was with two friends in the western city of Cologne late Saturday when the 1.2 metre (four-foot) robot approached her, police said. The device, coloured red and gold, is then alleged to have...