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Crime scene investigators in St Andrew were kept busy on Tuesday following the shooting and attempted robbery of a Chinese businessman at his Oakland Apartments and the murder of a social media personality. About 8:45 a.m., the police responded to...

Attorney and former House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert is praising God after the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck out a misconduct case against her regarding the handling of a deceased man’s estate over 30 years ago. “I’m very short on...

Do you agree with the popular sentiment that Clark’s Town has been dying since the Long Pond Sugar Estates ceased sugar production in 2017? Delroy Downer, former cane farmer: “When Long Pond closed, Clark’s Town got a big lick and it has not...

A claim by the opposition People’s National Party (PNP), that it is ahead in 60 per cent of the divisions in Westmoreland, has been rubbished by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which has styled the poll as bogus. “I know long before now that...

An intense battle for the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has Jamaica’s two main political parties claiming a majority of the divisions via internal polls with the local government elections only two weeks away. A single vote...

This week will see the issuance of a second call for proposal submissions under the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food for Progress Jamaica Spices (JaSPICE) project. Researchers, farmers, input suppliers to the industry, youth,...

Matthew Hyde, the university student who reportedly held his girlfriend captive in a dorm room and tortured her a year ago, is to undergo a forensic psychiatric evaluation as part of considerations for a possible plea deal. Both the defence and...

With the tabling of the 2024-2025 National Budget coming up this week, and repeated calls being made to increase funding for the tertiary sector, Marsha Smith, state minister in the Ministry of Education and Youth, is insisting that the Government...

The mother of 19-year-old police trainee Rayandre Pike, who drowned in July last year while trying to rescue his colleague, says no senior officer from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has reached out to her since the incident. “All I get is...

Under its Food for Progress Jamaica Spices initiative, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently hosted its first research visioning session at the Medallion Hall Hotel in St Andrew as part of its ongoing efforts to revitalise...

A software engineer based in the United States (US) has been ordered to pay a Jamaican attorney over $12 million for allegedly causing the leak of photos and videos of their sexual encounter in what has been described as a landmark case of revenge...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) appears to have backed away on its decision to slash 20 per cent from the salary of the enforcement inspector who first reported breaches detected at a housing development undertaken by a senior...