Caribbean Airlines is refuting reports that the company has been evicted from its Hope Road location in St Andrew. The airline says it has undertaken plans to relocate following the end of its existing lease. “There is no eviction process under...
Approximately $31 million will be disbursed in the first tranche of extended post–Hurricane Melissa recovery grants for privately operated early childhood institutions and independent schools, Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says.
A woman was shot in the neck during a robbery at an establishment along Grants Pen Road in St Andrew on Thursday. She was rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies, where she remains admitted and is undergoing treatment. Investigators...
A 21-year-old man from St Ann has been charged after allegedly tricking a woman and stealing her vehicle. Joel Nelson of Beechamville, Claremont, is charged with larceny by trick and driving away a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent....
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is reporting that a second set of Caribbean linemen has arrived in Jamaica, with more to come, as the company pushes ahead in the final stages of Hurricane Melissa electricity restoration. JPS says the regional...
Jamaica continues to seek to expand its reach in Latin America and Eastern Europe, two regions showing increasing appetite for Caribbean travel, as the country moves to strengthen its tourism economy. To this end, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett...
The police in Manchester have seized 23 rounds of ammunition during an operation in Mandeville. No arrest was made. Reports from the police are that about 6:40 p.m. on Wednesday, cops, acting on intelligence, conducted a search of a premises...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents in several St James communities continue to grapple with uncollected garbage and increased rodent activity weeks after Hurricane Melissa, prompting an extended response from the St James Health Services aimed at reducing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay will host a high-level, closed-door meeting of Caribbean tourism ministers on January 31, aimed at forging coordinated regional responses to mounting global pressures on the tourism sector. The in-camera discussions,...
Travel partners and guests of Sandals and Beaches Resorts are helping to accelerate community recovery in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. Since the resorts in Ocho Rios and Negril reopened on December 6, visitors have, through the Sandals...
The Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) and The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, marked the presentation of graduates with a pointed message for the country’s newest educators: artificial intelligence (AI) may reshape schooling, but it...
Ingrid Stewart Boivin grew up in Drapers, Portland, attended Titchfield High School in Port Antonio and later Shortwood Teachers’ College in St Andrew. After migrating, she returned to Jamaica regularly with her children. Each visit, she said,...
For Abigayle Edgar, graduating with first class honours in the Doctor of Medical Dentistry programme at the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica – and being named one of three valedictorians for the Class of 2025 – feels like “the final mould...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to US President Donald Trump comment that “Canada lives because of the United States” on Thursday by saying Canada thrives because of Canadian values.
A 28-year-old burglary suspect was shot and injured by the police after he allegedly assaulted an officer during an encounter in Lauriston, St Catherine on Wednesday.
The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) says the legal threshold for a surcharge has not been met, as it pushes back against an auditor general’s recommendation to recover $64.7 million in alleged fertiliser-related losses.
(AP) — Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers nervously watched forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm that could bring catastrophic damage barreled toward the eastern United States.
One person was killed and four others injured in a two-vehicle collision along the Harmony Cove main road in Trelawny on Thursday afternoon, the police have confirmed.
Eight motor vehicles forfeited under the Proceeds of Crime Act have been handed over to the Jamaica Constabulary Force to boost the operational capacity of its anti-organised crime and financial investigations units.
Today’s registration exercise in Westmoreland for the Government’s Solidarity Programme, which aims to provide a one-time $20,000 grant, was brought to an abrupt end due to chaotic scenes caused by a large, disorderly crowd. The registration was...
Police Constable Noel Maitland was today found guilty of the death of his girlfriend, 24-year-old social media influencer and entrepreneur Donna-Lee Donaldson. The jury deliberated for over three hours before returning its verdict in the Home...
A man charged for the alleged rape and abduction of two young girls had to be forcibly removed from the dock after falling to the ground after he was denied bail on Wednesday in the St Catherine Parish Court. Thirty-six-year-old Ricardo Brown,...
The seven-member jury in the trial of Police Constable Noel Maitland in the Home Circuit Court has gone into deliberations. The jury of four men and three women retired at 11:28 a.m. Maitland is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, 24-year-...
The police in St Mary are investigating the suspected suicide of a man who died in hospital days after reportedly ingesting a corrosive substance. He has been identified by the police as 57-year-old Garfield Brown of Three Hill in Retreat....
