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WAKISO, Uganda (AP) — A judge on Thursday sentenced a Ugandan man to death after rejecting his insanity plea in the killings of four children in a nursery school earlier this month. A crowd watching proceedings in a tent erupted in cheers after...
NEW YORK (AP) — A massive, fiery explosion at a house in Queens sent several New York City police officers flying through the air early Thursday morning as they were responding to a call of a man inside armed with a knife and the smell of gas....
Public sector employees are set to earn more, as the Government is to resume annual performance-based salary increments for workers. The Ministry of Finance, in a media release on Thursday, indicated that an agreement was reached on the issue at...
The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is maintaining that South West St Andrew Member of Parliament, Dr Angela Brown-Burke, has not gone far enough in taking responsibility for her conduct in Parliament on Tuesday. The JLP is calling for Brown-...
Detectives assigned to the St Catherine North Police Division are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the Rio Cobre in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Thursday. The police report that about 9:00 a.m. they were alerted to a...
A former employee at a St Catherine call centre who pleaded guilty to using a co-worker’s bank card to make online purchases was today given two years’ probation in the circuit court. Le Andrew Hoyte was charged with theft of an access device...
A supervisor at a haberdashery along Barry Street in downtown Kingston has been arrested and charged by the police following the seizure of more than 1,900 pairs of counterfeit shoes. Fifty-one-year-old Hou Qin, a Chinese national, is charged...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears was charged in California on Thursday with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, authorities said. The 44-year-old pop star was charged with a single misdemeanour count of driving under the combined...
Three men were fatally shot early this morning by the police in Browns Hall district, St Catherine during an alleged confrontation. They are yet to be identified. The police report that about 2:35, cops conducted an operation in the area....
A fisherman from Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, was today given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay $360,000 in restitution for chopping a man with a machete during a dispute. Omeally Walters, 38, was charged with wounding with...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Senegalese government has banned all but essential foreign trips for government ministers as part of cost-saving measures triggered by the energy crisis linked to the Middle East war. Senegal, like many African...
The Ministry of Education is reporting that the 2026 Grade 6 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations have been successful administrated despite significant disruptions caused by Hurricane Melissa. The examinations were held on Wednesday, April...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, has been appointed to lead a Commonwealth observer group for The Bahamas’ general election scheduled for May 12. The appointment was made by Commonwealth Secretary-General...
The finance ministers of Spain and four other European countries are urging the European Union to impose a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, concerned that surging oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran will fuel inflation and...
The Government will advance a full national pilot for waste separation in public facilities by the end of the fiscal year in March 2027. Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change, Matthew Samuda, made the announcement during his...
A St Thomas man has been charged after allegedly stabbing his spouse during a domestic dispute that left her hospitalised in serious condition. Twenty-eight-year-old Hadji Thompson, a taxi operator of Duhaney Pen, has been charged with wounding...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday underscored that constitutional rights must not only be safeguarded after harm occurs, as it struck down a 2020 environmental permit granted to Bengal Development Limited for mining activities in Rio Bueno, Dry...
Police in the St Andrew North Division are searching for a man who ran from a mid-morning operation at his home in Pleasant Valley, Red Hills, leaving behind an illegal gun and ammunition. Being sought is 48-year-old technician Orlando Oneil Reid...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is vowing an independent investigation of 10 current and former officials indicted in the US on charges of drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons in connection with the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican President...
Roderick G. Rainford, OCC, a former Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General and Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, has died. Rainford passed away quietly at his home in St Andrew this afternoon. He served as head of the central bank from...
Chief Public Health Inspector for Westmoreland, Steve Morris, says the parish is seeing a gradual reduction in mosquito breeding, as intensified vector-control measures continue to yield results. Providing an update at the recent meeting of the...
KABUL, Afghanisan (AP) — Widespread flooding, landslides and lightning strikes triggered by heavy rain and storms across Afghanistan have left 77 people dead and 137 injured over the past 10 days, the country’s Disaster Management Authority said...
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago is set to be executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection...
Some 800 workers are back on the job with the reopening of Bahia Principe in Runaway Bay, St Ann. The resumption of operations, following the property’s closure due to Hurricane Melissa last October, sees 664 rooms returning to Jamaica's tourism...
Jamaica’s Constitutional Court has struck down as "unconstitutional, void, and of no effect" the 2020 environmental permit granted for Bengal Development Limited’s controversial limestone mining project, handing a major victory to St Ann residents...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of three men in Sheffield, Westmoreland by police on Friday afternoon. Two of the deceased have been identified as Devonie Chase and Reagan McIntosh, while the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela departed a bit early Thursday on its way to the capital of the South American country, seven years after the US Homeland Security Department...
The police in Clarendon are probing the shooting death of a man in Lionel Town on Friday. He has been identified as 57-year-old Orville Garriques, otherwise called ‘Bugle’, who lived in the area. The police report that about 11:00 a.m., the man...
The police have laid a criminal charge against St Ann-based attorney Debby-Ann Samuels, her attorney has confirmed. Samuels was charged with one count of fraudulent conversion following an interview late Wednesday with investigators at the...
Jamaica’s steady decline in offender readmission to correctional facilities is being hailed by Executive Director of Stand Up for Jamaica, Carla Gullotta, as a sign of progress, but she argues that stronger efforts are needed to facilitate their...
