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   Singer and actor Jimmy Cliff, known for hits like Many Rivers To Cross’, You Can Get It If You Really Want’ and his cover of I Can See Clearly Now’,...

   Airports are up and running while cruise ports eye a return to normal in mid-December.

   Melissa was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall and brought destructive weather to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba.

   Days of torrential rain and flooding from Hurricane Melissa have devastated parts of the Caribbean, displacing families and disrupting essential...

   Hundreds of travellers are still waiting for flights out of Jamaica and are warned of food and accommodation shortages.

   Streets were submerged in Kingston on Tuesday after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the most powerful storm to strike the island since...

   When Melissa came ashore, it tied strength records for Atlantic hurricanes making landfall, both in wind speed and barometric pressure, a key...

   More than half a million people were evacuated in Cuba, according to President Miguel Dà az-Canel, and forecasters said the Category 3 storm would...

   Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm with winds up to 295 km h, the strongest in 174 years. Streets in...

   Fierce winds ripped roofs from buildings, and massive boulders crashed down onto roads, cutting off access across the region.

   Satellite video shows Hurricane Melissa intensifying into a massive Category 5 storm near Jamaica, with towering clouds and powerful lightning...

   Expected to make landfall in Jamaica on Monday evening or Tuesday morning, Hurricane Melissa is forecast to become a Category 5 hurricane, making it...

   Hurricane Beryl battered Jamaica with 12 consecutive hours of strong winds and several months’ worth of rain. As it has claimed at least eight lives...

   The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is warning that this storm season could be the worst in decades.

   Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant won the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for his second collection of poems, Self-Portrait As Othello,’ which reimagines...

   Goals from Kadidiatou Diani, Kenza Dali and a brace from Eugénie Le Sommer rounded off a dominant performance in Adelaide. Meanwhile, Catalina Usme’s...

   Jo, who was also a reggae musician and DJ - known professionally as Jo Mersa - was found unresponsive in a vehicle on Tuesday 27 December and...

   The government said the ban is meant to cut back on material that could give the wrong impression that criminality is an accepted feature of Jamaican...

   A slew of countries have announced initiatives to create CBDCs. The US could be able to join their ranks with a digital dollar .

   The exhibition’s ten-week stay at the capital’s Saatchi Gallery contains personal possessions, multi-sensory rooms, and rare photographic finds.

   Prime Minister Andrew Holness said police are investigating the case. He didn’t specify what offense might have been committed, though Jamaica has...

   A flight scheduled to deport dozens of people from the UK to Jamaica left on Tuesday morning despite a court order. It is a case that sparked a large...

   A powerful 7.7 earthquake struck south of Cuba and Jamaica, the US Geological Survey said.

   The latest winner of the Miss World, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh, says she wants to use her award to work for sustainable change for women.

   Daniel Craig plays 007 in his fifth and final James Bond movie, with the world’s most famous secret agent starting his latest adventure in the...

   Brazil cruised to a 3-0 win in their opening game

   Reggae, the Jamaican music genre popularised by Bob Marley, has been inscribed on Unesco’s World Heritage List

   The Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter who was retroactively found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has attended his appeal hearing

   The fastest man on Earth vows not to make a comeback as he holds his last press conference as a sprinter.

   Olympic champion and race favourite Omar McLeod shrugged off the defeats of Bolt and Thompson to dominate the Men’s 110 metres hurdles final in...

   Usain Bolt ready for his final bow at World Championships

   Usain bolt runs his last race in Jamaica

   It is one of Jamaica’s most treasured attractions and has appeared in numerous documentaries and travelogues about the island.

   A documentary film trailing Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt hits the cinema screens next month and gives fans a chance to see the nine-time...

   Classed category 4 out of a possible 5, winds speeds were hitting up to 280km per hour, two people were killed and one is missing as a result of the...

   It is the stongest storm to menace the Caribbean since 2007 and is expected to make landfall near southwestern Haiti and Jamaica late on Monday.

   It’s the fiercest storm to cross the Caribbean for years - and it has Jamaica in its sights.

   Jamaicans in Rio, and there are lots of them, went bananas last night as Usain Bolt led their men’s 4X100 metres sprint team to victory again at the...

   Jamaica and Jamaicans around the world have been saluting the genius of Usain Bolt on the Olympics track, now with eight gold medals across three...

   A Jamaican sprinter has once again shone on the track on Day 12 in Rio.

   Usain Bolt wrote another chapter in his remarkable Olympic story by winning the 100m final for a record third straight summer Games.

   Usain Bolt is dancing samba on stage before an interview with Jonathan Edwards.

   Jamaica’s Usain also says he wants to break his own 200-metre world record, hoping to run a time under 19 seconds.

   Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter has returned a positive doping result following a re-testing of his sample from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

   Ziggy Marley likes a challenge as well as the day job as a musician, he’s tried his hand at politics and more recently acting.

   Marlon James has become the first ever Jamaican to win Britain’s highest literary honour the Man Booker fiction prize for A Brief History of Seven

   David Cameron has arrived in Jamaica looking to strengthen trade ties with the former British colony. Instead he has been hit with a request for

   Cameron faces calls for slavery reparations on visit to Jamaica

   Jamaican singer OMI’s catchy hit Cheerleader’ is enjoying a second lease of life thanks to a remix by 20-year old German producer Felix Jaehn. Now