QUEENS COUNTY, NY: One thousand backyard poultry farmers across Jamaica are set to benefit from Chicken RE-COOP, a hurricane recovery programme, which was set for launching on March 1, 2026. The initiative comes in response to Hurricane Melissa...
This Lenten time provides us with yet another opportunity to continue in a spirit of praying, fasting, and giving for our Caribbean region amid geopolitical dynamics and attendant threats to peace and stability. At the heart of our Christian...
Is it kindness or is it kindness? In other words, is it trustworthy kindness or is it the kindness that could cost you dearly down the road? *Mary was overjoyed when the “kind, tall, dark and handsome stranger” stopped to give her a ride, saving...
Christ is the only true source of contentment; any other version of contentment is sure to come up short. This is a big statement that might be hard for us to wrap our heads around. But there is no better place for us to continue our conversation...
For your prayers to be effective, especially during the midnight battles, you must learn how to pray in tongues. It is very difficult if not impossible, to pray effectively for long hours in the night (which sometimes last for days or months)...
The police are investigating the killing of a man and the shooting of another during a party in Tryall Heights, St Catherine early Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as Lamore White, otherwise called 'Biggie', a 43-year-old...
Phase one of the new facility being constructed to accommodate residents and staff of the Trelawny Infirmary is expected to be completed shortly, says Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie. Following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in...
(AP) — United States President Donald Trump said on social media that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, describing his passing as “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their country.” There was no...
(AP) — The death toll rose to 22 on Saturday from the crash of a military plane carrying 18 tonnes of new banknotes a day earlier near Bolivia’s capital, La Paz. The crash damaged about a dozen vehicles and scattering bills on the ground, a...
The Jamaican Government is advising citizens to “avoid all travel” to the Middle East and is urging nationals in the region to shelter in place amid joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and that country’s retaliatory attacks. “The Ministry of Foreign...
A man recently deported to Jamaica to face serious gun charges was remanded when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. Akeem Jackson, otherwise called 'Bobo Sparks', 31, is charged with shooting with intent, malicious...
Iran’s foreign minister says the country’s Supreme Leader and president are alive “as far as I know,” as Saturday’s US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s retaliation intensify fears of a wider Middle East war. US President Donald Trump has called on the...
Police have launched a homicide investigation following the killing of a 68-year-old man at his home in Windsor Heights, St Catherine, on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Hartman Johnson, a labourer of Walkers Avenue in the...
(AP) — The United States and Israel launched a major attack on targets across Iran on Saturday. US President Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to “take over your government” — an extraordinary appeal that suggested the allies could be...
Senior members of the judiciary have endorsed a new mentorship initiative at the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS), describing it as a necessary bridge between academic training and the realities of legal practice. The programme, launched with a...
In one of the largest commissioning ceremonies in recent years, 148 new justices of the peace (JPs) were formally sworn in for the parish of St Andrew on Sunday. The commissioning ceremony for the St Andrew Justices of the Peace, held at the Karl...
TORONTO: The beginning of the Chinese New Year on Tuesday was an auspicious moment for Donette Chin-Loy Chang as it was announced that she was among 30 Ontarians appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest civilian honour. The...
Donald Trump’s posting on his Truth Social account platform on February 6 of headshots of Michelle and Barack Obama superimposed on the bodies of apes drew widespread expressions of horror and disgust worldwide. Trump was sending out a very clear...
REGINA, SK: Regina poet, lawyer, and author, Deidre S. Powell, has been awarded a $5,000 grant from SK Arts through the Building Arts Equity Program to support the completion of a new poetry anthology.Her proposal as detailed on the programme’s...
The police have charged five persons following coordinated, day-long operations targeting lottery scams, identity fraud, and illegal drugs across Manchester on Wednesday. The operations, which ran from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., were conducted...
The Supreme Court has rejected a renewed bid by former Education Minister Ruel Reid and three co-accused to end their corruption trial, saying their challenge had “no prospect of success real or imagined”. “We find also that their intended case...
Young Jamaica, the youth arm of the governing Jamaica Labour Party, says National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang should not withdraw his claim that some advocacy groups critical of police conduct are “living off blood money”. The comments...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of three men by police during an operation in Coral Gardens, St James. The incident occurred on Thursday night. The three deceased men have not yet been...
More charges have been laid against Dwayne Pitter, one of three persons accused of defrauding several financial institutions of millions of dollars. A total of 36 counts under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), the Law Reform (Fraudulent...
Reggae Boy Cory Burke and another man were today each fined $2,000 or five days’ imprisonment on a charge of indecent language arising from an incident with the police at a football match in Portmore, St Catherine in January. Burke and Conroy...
