Despite the technological and other advances since 1951, the political will to make the well-needed appropriate investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies remains a vitally important missing link in the...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) has funnelled $1.1 billion to private banks to subsidise its External Financing Mortgage Programme (EFMP), a move that effectively outsources its mortgage book to protect a multibillion-dollar housing construction...
Yes, this is the time for possibilities! Things that were hitherto impossible to you will now become possible. Listen, something will start coming out of nothing. Our testimonies will defy all explanations from now. It is natural that something is...
I’ve said this before in an article and today, I’m saying it again: The Bible is a bloody book. In our modern-day, Western culture, blood is considered gory or unsanitary, but in Eastern cultures and in the Bible, blood is considered life (...
“There is hope, because we are invited to trust that God will do a new thing.” Prophetic words from our dearly beloved in Christ, Sarah Mullally, the first woman to be installed as the Archbishop of Canterbury! Amen, and Amen. God uses the humble...
A convicted serial rapist who carried out a string of brutal attacks on multiple victims, including an eight-year-old who was sodomised, will remain behind bars for 40 years after the Court of Appeal upheld his sentence while correcting key legal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 modest donation of bun and cheese by police personnel from the Guy’s Hill Police Station in St Catherine brought lasting smiles to students of Jubilee Town Primary School on Wednesday. The occasion coincided with the school’s sports day, and the...
The JWN Foundation (JWNF) this week distributed 1,795 menstrual kits to schoolgirls in Kingston, Clarendon and St Elizabeth, as part of its ongoing End Period Poverty Drive. Launched in 2020, the initiative seeks to improve access to essential...
The Jamaica Library Service (JLS) is aiming to increase participation in the National Reading Competition to 6,000 entrants this year. Entries for the competition, which is open to Jamaicans ages six to 99, are now being accepted at all JLS...
WASHINGTON, DC: The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 27 hosted its inaugural Citizenship Ceremony, formally recognising 27 Jamaican nationals who were either newly naturalised or formalising their citizenship by descent....
More than 100 children in St Elizabeth are now sporting brighter, healthier smiles after a two-day outreach by Santa Cruz Family Dental under its ‘Sweet Smiles, Smart Choice’ campaign, held to mark World Oral Health Day on March 20. The team...
If you have ever visited the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies in Jamaica, you may have seen the striking Savacou sculpture. The statue, which towers over seven feet and depicts the revered bird-god from Caribbean Taino mythology,...
Twin sisters Dr Tamara Henry-Gilpin and Dr Tamika Henry are quietly reshaping Jamaica’s public-health landscape, working in parallel roles that reflect not only their training but also their shared sense of purpose. Henry-Gilpin serves as Medical...
A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier is in police custody as investigators probe the death of a woman in Three Chains, Manchester, this afternoon. Reports indicate that the soldier turned himself in to investigators after the woman was found...
Most travellers flying with United Airlines will now pay $10 more to check their luggage beginning on Friday, as rising jet fuel costs driven by the war in the Middle East pushes another major United States carrier to increase fees. Customers...
The Opposition People’s National Party is calling for the Government to address the condition of a bridge in Easington, St Thomas, following the death of a man who fell through the structure today. Opposition Spokesperson on Roads, Richard Azan...
