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ST JAMES, Jamaica — A man who was featured on the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Wanted Wednesday has been charged with murder after he was taken into custody for the alleged possession of a prohibited weapon and later identified as a murder suspect. He is 30-year-old Joseph McKenzie otherwise called ‘Jayo’, of Second Avenue, Flanker in St James. McKenzie has been charged with the April 6, 2023 murder of 21-year-old Darian...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — A man was shot and killed in a motor vehicle on Barnett Street in Montego Bay, St James on Thursday. He has been identified as 28-year-old Iky-Taul Wynter otherwise called ‘Nathaniel’, a labourer of Kayton Lane, Mount Salem in the parish. Reports are that about 5:05 pm, Wynter was a passenger in a motor car when a man approached him. It is alleged that the man...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Sweden's undisputed pole vault king Armand Duplantis brought the curtain down on an unbeaten season with another fantastic victory in the Diamond League finals in Brussels on Friday. It was his 15th and final victory of a year in which he improved his own world record three times, up to 6.26 metres. The United States (US) born Swede was again a world apart from the competition at the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ackeem Blake and Tajay Gayle were winners on Friday’s opening day of the Diamond League final at Allianz Memorial Van Damme at the King Boudouin Stadium in Brussels as they took the Diamond trophies in the men’s 100m and long jump respectively. Blake, the World Indoor 60m bronze medallist ran 9.93 seconds (0.1m/s) for an upset win in the men’s 100m, while Gayle had a season’s best...

LONDON, United Kingdom (CMC) — The British Royal Navy on Thursday said its patrol ship HMS Trent seized £160 million (1GBP = US1.28) of cocaine from a “narco-sub” in the Caribbean Sea. In eight drugs busts in seven months, the Portsmouth-based patrol ship has stopped nearly £750 million of narcotics from reaching the streets of the United Kingdom or anywhere else, the British Royal Navy said. It said Trent’s latest operation,...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The seven-year-old boy who was found in possession of a submachine gun at a St Elizabeth school on Thursday is now in the care of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). His siblings are also in the care of the agency following yesterday’s shocking disclosure by the Jamaica Constabulary Force that the gun was seized at a school in the parish. READ: 7-y-o student found...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The US dollar on Friday, September 13 ended trading at $158.55 up by five cents, according to the Bank of Jamaica’s daily exchange trading summary. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar ended at $117.07 down from $117.97, while the British pound sterling ended at $207.71 up from $207.10.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The Jamaican security contingent arrived in Haiti on Thursday as part of a multi-national mission to help restore law and order amid escalating violence in the French-speaking country. The group, consisting of 20 soldiers and four police officers, departed the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston minutes after 1:00 pm (local time). Deputy Superintendent Adrian Hamilton, who is among the four officers deployed, says...