President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), Hugh Grant, has announced that electricity will be restored to key facilities and major sections of Black River, St Elizabeth, by Thursday night, following weeks of...
Residents of Fitzgerald Avenue in the Maxfield area of St Andrew have been urged by lawmen to partner with the police in the coming year to help reduce violent crime. Divisional Commander for St Andrew South, Senior Superintendent Damion...
The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has received 10 new tipper trucks, valued approximately $200 million, to strengthen the National Clean-up Programme in parishes impacted by Hurricane Melissa. The units were handed over to the...
Upset residents of 41 Boulevard in the community of Rose Heights, St James, blocked the main road leading into their community this morning to protest a lack of water in the area. They used trash, tree branches, garbage, and other debris to block...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 10:41 AM
The organisers of Rebel Salute have announced that the event will not be staged in Jamaica in 2026, citing challenges brought about by Hurricane Melissa. In a statement posted on its Instagram page, Rebel Salute said the hurricane has disrupted...
Superintendent Coleridge Minto, head of the St Elizabeth Police Division, has assured residents and visitors that the parish is safe and ready to host major public events, as he threw his full support behind the first-ever New Year’s Eve fireworks...
Hundreds of residents in parishes severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa are receiving cash vouchers just in time for Christmas. The disbursement, which started on December 17, is being undertaken by the World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:10 AM
Fourteen students at Brown’s Town Community College (BTCC) will benefit from a $1 million JPS Foundation partnership to support its electrical installation programme. Sophia Lewis, head of the foundation, told students and staff the partnership “...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:09 AM
When the winds died down and the floodwaters began to recede, the true cost of Hurricane Melissa slowly came into view. Beyond damaged homes and disrupted lives, another crisis unfolded quietly across the island: frightened animals left without...
The Jonkunnu festivity at Moore Town, a Maroon village in East Portland’s Rio Grande Valley, has died a slow, natural death — leaving residents with a quiet resolve. Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons, Wallace Sterling, recalled that Jonkunnu once...
Up to the end of the 20th century Christmas celebrations were more widely anticipated in Jamaica, secularly and religiously, than they are nowadays. The days leading up to Christmas were full of feelings of excitement; school, church, home and...
Western Bureau: Chairman of the Janet Richards Foundation, Janet Richards, says she will be reaching out to the Usain Bolt Foundation to help transform the play area at the St James-based Mustard Seed Children’s Home, saying that playing and having...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:06 AM
Nadia Williams, administrator of Mary’s Child, says community partnerships are vital in helping teenage mothers rebuild their lives. Her comments came as Fontana completed one of its Christmas Wishing Tree handovers at the Papine-based home last...
The St Mary police are advising that the Junction main road is blocked between Friendship Gap and Devon Pen due to a truck that has broken down. As a result, motorists travelling to Kingston via Annotto Bay are being urged to use an alternative...
Jamaican pastor Alton Farquharson, who is charged with murder in the death of his wife, was remanded when he appeared in a court in Canada on Tuesday. The 56-year-old, who is reportedly from Mile Gully in Manchester, has been in police custody...
(AP) — The United States Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it was replacing its longstanding lottery system for H-1B work visas with a new approach that prioritises skilled, higher-paid foreign workers. The change follows a series of...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has condemned what it says is the deliberate destruction of billboards advertising entertainment events, warning that the practice will not be tolerated. The municipal authority said it has...
The police have now charged a third man who was taken into custody in connection with the death of St Catherine contractor Humphrey Brown, who was killed and whose body was subsequently found in a shallow grave. Charged with murder, conspiracy to...
(AP) — Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married, the tennis great announced Tuesday on social media. Williams and Preti became wife and husband over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a five-day celebration. After becoming the...
The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has advised that some suppliers will not receive payments today as scheduled due to a "technical banking issue". SERHA said the matter is being treated with urgency and that active contact is being...
Two men were shot and killed in an attack at a bar along Manchester Road in Manchester on Monday night. They have been identified by police as 40-year-old truck driver Nicholas Tomlinson of the May Day district in the parish, and 32-year-old...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s government has declared an economic state of emergency that enables President Gustavo Petro’s administration to issue taxes by decree, as the nation struggles to finance hospitals and the military while paying...
After more than 14 years on the run, a 41-year-old labourer from Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, has been charged in connection with a deadly 2011 gun attack that left two young men dead and a woman injured. Andre Daniels has been charged with two...
A man was gunned down in the Brokenhurst district of Manchester on Monday. He has been identified by police as 41-year-old maintenance worker Everol Richards of Villa Road, Mandeville. Reports are that about 6:25 a.m., explosions were heard in...
