The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that on Sunday, February 8, a section of the Long Hill to Anchovy main road in St James will be temporarily closed to facilitate necessary maintenance works. The NWA says the closure will be in effect...
A man who was accused of shooting at the police in November 2021 was freed in the Gun Court today arising from the repeated absence of a police witness to appear in court. Kemar Edwards, who was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and...
Bath Botanical Gardens in St Thomas will be rehabilitated over a five-month period at a cost of $29.5 million. The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), along with the Ministries of Tourism, and Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, signed a...
The St Elizabeth farmer facing criminal charges in connection with the alleged seizure of approximately $30 million worth of cocaine in three suitcases at Sangster International Airport last month was remanded during his first court appearance on...
University student Kengu Black, charged with causing the deaths of four people in a crash last year, is to return to court on February 10 after the matter was adjourned on Friday. Her $800,000 bail was extended by the St Catherine Parish Court...
The Financial Investigations Division (FID) says it has secured a cash settlement of $1.5 million and the surrender of a motor car as part of ongoing asset-recovery proceedings stemming from a drug-trafficking case in Manchester. The settlement...
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) says it accepted politician Jolyan Silvera’s guilty plea to manslaughter after concluding it could not disprove his claim that he was provoked into shooting his wife in 2023. It also...
A 28-year-old farmer has been charged with unlawful wounding and assault occasioning bodily harm following an alleged attack on a teenage girl in Abraham district, St Elizabeth, on Wednesday. The St Elizabeth police allege the accused, Anthony '...
(AP) — President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle. The...
Two persons were arrested following the alleged seizure of US$195,000 in counterfeit currency, along with a firearm, during a pre-dawn operation in Wait-A-Bit, Trelawny, on Tuesday, the police say. According to the Falmouth police, the operation...
Angry residents of Thompson Pen, St Catherine, on Thursday protested the fatal shooting of 37-year-old fisherman Demoy Campbell during a police operation. They describing the incident as a “cold-blooded murder” allegedly carried out by members of...
A Spanish Town early-childhood school was among several institutions across Jamaica that marked Play Day on Wednesday, a national observance highlighting the role of play in learning, development and emotional wellbeing. At the Kingdom Builders...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, working with the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association (OFVGA), yesterday launched the OFVGA Scholarship Programme, an initiative designed to support the children of Jamaican farm workers...
The UK government has invested $7.57 billion in a new agro-processing facility and administrative building that opened on Wednesday in Essex Valley, St Elizabeth, in a project aimed at strengthening Jamaica’s food security, agricultural...
Despite turning out just one student in its first graduating batch for the Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science programme last month, the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is keen on keeping the programme on its roster and expects growth in...
Two men, including an 89-year-old licensed firearm holder have been charged after a Taurus .38 revolver was allegedly negligently discharged inside the elderly man's home on January 30. According to Lucea police, the man left the firearm on a...
(AP) — Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein. But the British prime minister’s job is under threat because of the fallout from the late sex offender’s global web of relationships. Friendship with Epstein has already brought down a British royal...
The police have charged a 55-year-old businesswoman in connection with the alleged theft of several devices, including 59 smartphones, from a store in Spanish Town, St Catherine, last month. She is Pansy Henry, from Claremont in St Ann, said a...
An additional 10,000 National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors are set to receive their contribution refund for the year 2018 by Monday, Feburary 9. Supervisor for the Contributions, Refunds, Payments and Monitoring Unit, Cameo Simmons Thomas,...
Operators of Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay say severe weather Thursday linked to a cold front forced the cancellation of an American Airlines flight to Miami, while another incoming flight was diverted. The cancelled flight, AA...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the shooting death of a man by police in Windsor district in Siloah, St Elizabeth on Wednesday. He has been identified as Christopher Black, otherwise called 'Voice', a labourer of...
The police are reporting the seizure of 23 rounds of ammunition from an abandoned building in the community of Shelter Rock, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Wednesday. No arrests were made. The police report about 3:30 p.m. members of the St...
A man was fatally shot during an alleged shoot-out with police in Thompson Pen, St Catherine Thursday morning. He has been identified as 37-year-old fisherman Demoy Campbell, a resident of the community. According to police reports, a team was...
An investigation is under way in the death of a detainee who was in custody at a police lock-up in Clarendon. The deceased has been identified as Collintine Sutherland, 58, of Crofts Hill, in the parish. Reports are that about 8:30 a.m. on...
Today’s proceedings in the Clansman gang trial were adjourned after one of the defendants fell ill. In court, medical doctor Paul Robinson, who is also an accused in the matter, alerted presiding judge Justice Dale Palmer that defendant Travis...
