Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness will today depart the island to attend the 50th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The meeting is being held in St Kitts and Nevis. In a media release,...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing two separate fatal police shootings — one in Jones Town, St Andrew, and the other in Norwood, St James — that occurred on Sunday. The deceased men have been identified as 55-year-...
The police have charged a man who allegedly targeted elderly citizens using automated teller machines (ATMs), stealing their bank cards and draining their accounts. Charged with unauthorised access to computer data, simple larceny, and possession...
A vendor was on Sunday arrested and charged by members of the police’s Agricultural Protection Branch (APB) following an operation in downtown Kingston in which more than 500 pounds of meat were seized. The police say the meat was uninspected and...
The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that it has dealt a blow to a clandestine network of illegal water connections in Clarendon. The commission says that deep in the dense bushes of Palmetto Pen and Cross Pen, its Revenue Recovery...
The issue of whether young people have a say in selecting top leaders for the Seventh-day Adventist Church was put to rest during the Fourth (Third Quinquennial) Session of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Twenty-two-year-old...
Twenty-five professionals drawn law-enforcement and related agencies have completed a pioneering course aimed at combating financial crimes. The Fundamentals of Countering Financial Crime is a six-week professional certificate programme developed...
Two men accused of being involved in a motor vehicle stealing ring were remanded when they appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. Fabian Williams and Thyan Edwards are jointly charged with larceny of a motor vehicle. When the matter...
The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Region Four, is intensifying efforts to locate approximately 1,000 students who remain unaccounted for following disruptions to the education system caused by Hurricane Melissa last year....
Minister of National Security and Peace, Dr Horace Chang, has strongly condemned Saturday’s gun attack in Denham Town, Kingston that left a three-year-old boy dead and his eight-year-old brother and their father injured. Chang described the...
Some flights to and from the United States at both the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and the Sangster International Airport in St James have been cancelled due to a winter storm affecting sections of the country. So far, the...
The Associated Press: If you daydream about getting a break from work, you might picture two weeks of vacation or a long weekend getaway. But some people dare to imagine something bigger and find ways to get a substantial breather from stress or...
The watchdog signed off — but not before it barked. Access to Information documents obtained by The Sunday Gleaner reveal that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) warned the transport ministry against handpicking contractors even as it endorsed...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP): Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered under heavy Israeli restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including some who were allowed to enter...
In the coming days, Jewish communities around the world will celebrate Purim, a festival that commemorates a dramatic moment in ancient Persia when the Jewish people were saved from destruction. The story, recorded in the Book of Esther, tells of...
I hope by now you’ve realised that if you want a change with your finances, it takes doing things differently. If you’re a believer, it means applying the principles of God’s Kingdom to the way you treat your money. Because money matters to God, we...
Anybody that is involved in strong spiritual warfare like the midnight prayer and other forms of intercession, must master this principle of praying until something happens. Once you know what the will of God is, you must be ready to pray until...
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Psalm 46:2-3 On Tuesday morning at around 3:19 a.m. some...
The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says it is expressing profound outrage and sorrow at the killing of a three-year-old boy and the injury of his eight-year-old brother and their father in a gun attack at their home in Denham...
A man charged over the theft of gaming boxes from a bar in St Catherine was on Friday remanded when he appeared in the parish court. Omar Dennis, 35, of Denham Town in Kingston, is charged with shop breaking and larceny. Dennis appeared before...
A 17-year-old boy from Boscobel, St Mary, has been charged by police in connection with the shooting death of 59-year-old businessman Garfield Singh at his Boscobel home last Monday. The minor is charged with conspiracy to rob and possession of...
A 22-year-old man died from injuries he sustained when the Isuzu motor truck he was travelling in slammed into the rear of a parked truck on the main road in Hope Bay, Portland on Saturday. The man, whose name has not been released, was a...
A man accused of stealing $400,000 from a cash pot machine at a business establishment in Spanish Town, St Catherine was on Friday remanded when he appeared before the parish court. Heron Coleman, a resident of the parish, is charged with shop...
West Kingston Member of Parliament, Desmond McKenzie, is offering a reward of $600,000 to anyone who can provide credible information to the police that leads to the arrest and charging of the persons responsible for today’s deadly home invasion...
A three-year-old boy was killed, and his eight-year-old brother and father were injured in a gun attack at their home in Denham Town, Kingston early this morning. The incident occurred along Nelson Street in the community. The deceased child has...
