Joseph Salmon of Jamaica College broke the boys’ Class One discus record twice en route to winning gold at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships at the National Stadium on Thursday. The defending champion and pre-event...
A police constable has been charged over a shooting in Preston Hill, St Mary last June that left a man dead and a woman injured. Constable Alwyn Hill is charged with murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony, and wounding with intent. Hill...
Vybz Kartel won Best Caribbean Music Act at the 2026 MOBO Awards on Thursday. The dancehall artiste prevailed in a competitive category that included Masicka, Shenseea, Lila Iké, Ayetian and Yung Bredda. The Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards,...
President of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), Dr Kevin Brown, said the institution’s technical team is working overtime to resolve issues that have led to the late payment of salaries for its academic staff. The staff members...
The 48-year-old St Catherine taxi operator who was taken into custody on Sunday for the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl who was a passenger in his vehicle has been charged. He was charged on Wednesday by detectives attached to the...
The St Mary police are probing the death of a man in the community of Luna. He has been identified as Owen Lewis. The matter is being treated as a suspected case of suicide. Reports are that around 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, residents stumbled...
Academic staff at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) today staged a sit-in to protest the late payment of their March salaries. Following a Zoom meeting held on Thursday morning with the academic staff union, a resolution was voted...
There are currently eight schools that are still being used as shelters in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, housing a total of 93 people. The update was provided this morning by Dr Kasan Troupe, permanent secretary in the Ministry of...
A district constable has been charged after allegedly discharging his firearm at a motorist along the Port Henderson Main Road in Portmore, St Catherine. Sean McKenzie is charged for breaching the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and...
A St Elizabeth man who shot a father six times in front of his young children and spouse has been convicted of murder. A seven-member jury, with a 6-1 majority decision, found Ethan Clarke, also called ‘Predator’, guilty for the 2018 execution-...
Freshly crowned Class One girls 1500m champion Jovi Rose of Holmwood Technical has now set her sights on completing the middle-distance double at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Athletics Championships at the National Stadium. The 17-year-...
One of two inmates who allegedly attempted to escape from the Tamarind Farm Adult Correctional Centre in St Catherine on Wednesday was fatally shot by correctional officers. The deceased has been identified as 33-year-old Odane Hyatt of Rosehall...
Agriculture Minister Floyd Green has signalled the Government’s intention to expand a successful rural farming initiative to more communities, following what he described as “measurable outcomes” in St Catherine. The Improving Rural Livelihoods...
Two police constables have been charged for assaulting a man in Spanish Town, St Catherine and have agreed to pay $255,000 in restitution following mediation. Constables Paul Banbury and Jason Hunter are charged in relation to an incident that...
Three sanitation workers have been charged with murder following the killing of a man in Montego Bay, St James earlier this month. Charged are 23-year-old Akeemo Brooks, otherwise called ‘Keemo’, 39-year-old Miguel Whitelock, and 34-year-old...
WITH SUSTAINED winds of 297 kilometres per hour, Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Jamaica last October, forever changing how we look at climate change readiness and disaster preparedness. The island sustained an estimated...
ANOTHER milestone in innovative partnerships for environmental sustainability was achieved recently as the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) formalised a landmark alliance to strengthen...
AS THE world turns its gaze to International Day of Zero Waste on March 30, the role of collaborative best efforts to tackle food waste – the focus of this year’s observance – was highlighted from as far back as two years ago. The 2024 Food Waste...
Effective April 1, the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) will begin transitioning nine core compliance filings to an online-only format, ending in-person processing for these services as part of its ongoing digitisation drive. In addition,...
