WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is growing steadily in the face of war, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates. It just isn’t growing fast enough to bring relief to the world’s poorest, the World Bank said Thursday in its...

A man was gunned down outside his home in Cumberland, Portmore, St Catherine on Thursday. It is reported that Garth Taylor pulled up and parked at his Potterdale Drive premises when men on a motorcycle came up and opened fire. Taylor was shot...

Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Dunn, who was charged for the death of his ex-girlfriend in a vehicular crash in the Bog Walk Gorge, was freed in the St Catherine Circuit Court, after the Crown conceded it could not mount a successful prosecution....

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green has highlighted significant growth in Jamaica's poultry sector over the past decade, with an annual production increase of 22.4 per cent. Speaking at the opening of CB Group’s $15-billion air-chill...

Mayor of Kingston,Andrew Swaby, says the traffic changes that were implemented in downtown Kingston during the Christmas season will remain in effect. He said that the police have recommended the continuation of the measures, which were put in...

The increasing opportunities within the tourism industry brought about by technology will be explored at the upcoming Global Tourism Resilience Conference, says Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett. The event will be held at the Princess Grand...

The Jamaica National Group was the title sponsor for the Race for Hope 5K and Kids Fun Run, which was held on January 12 at the Hope Royal Botanical Gardens. This year’s event was geared towards raising funds for preserving the botanical gardens,...

Woman Ignite Foundation (WIF) remains steadfast in pursuing its objectives of providing support for young women that have experienced significant challenges including trauma, incarceration, abuse, teenage pregnancy or human trafficking. According...

Lascelles Employees and Partners Co-operative Credit Union, in partnership with Sherwin Williams Ja Ltd, visited Hope’s House on Friday, January 10. Team members from Lascelles Employees and Partners Co-operative Credit Union and Sherwin Williams...

Fontana Pharmacy is delighted to announce the successful completion of its annual Barbican Treat initiative, held on New Year’s Day. This heartfelt effort brought much-needed support and cheer to the Barbican community, reinforcing Fontana’s...

Last year, Jamaica mourned the loss of several remarkable individuals; from musical geniuses, to business stalwarts and exemplary public servants. The contributions of these prominent Jamaicans to nation-building will be remembered for generations...

Reports from the Earthquake Unit (EQU) have indicated that 2024 was a year of significant seismic activity. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank today at the agency’s head office in St Andrrw, Head and Research Fellow at the...

The People’s National Party (PNP) on Wednesday evening officially presented retired Senior Superintendent Steve McGregor as its candidate for Kingston Central in the next general elections, due by September, with mass endorsement from party...

The police in St Mary have imposed curfews in the communities of Enfield in Annotto Bay and Albion Mountain and Free Hill in Port Maria. The security measures began at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15, and will run until 6:00 p.m. on Friday,...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of one of its members. Dead is Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) Private Lenard McNally who died at the University Hospital of the West Indies...

The Caribbean Broilers (CB) Group today inaugurated its new state-of-the-art air-chill processing plant, representing a significant leap in sustainable poultry production. The plant is located within the group’s 1,000-acre eco-industrial park in...

Motorists will pay more for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move up by $1.60 to sell for $155.29 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go up by $0.71 to sell for $163.29....

Patrick Casserly, a transformative figure in Jamaica’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, has passed away at the age of 58. He died today at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James after a prolonged battle with cancer. Renowned for his...

The late principal of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, O'Neil Stevens, and his wife, Camesha Lindsay-Stevens, were remembered today at a memorial service in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, following their tragic deaths in a car crash. “He was a...

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, the United States and Qatar said Wednesday, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies...

Education Minister Dana Morris Dixon says the right balance is needed to address the grooming issues in schools which surfaced again recently at the McGrath High School in Treadways, St Catherine, after a male student was allegedly barred from...

Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, says repairing of cables that connect the cameras under the JamaicaEye programme is under way. Speaking in the House of Representatives on, Chang explained that maintenance of the system was a...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Catholic Board of Education in the Bahamas has confirmed that a ninth grade student at Aquinas College has died after collapsing during a physical education class. The board said that trained personnel provided...

The Integrity Commission has dismissed criticisms raised by Minister of State in the National Security, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, regarding the request for salary information about her husband as part of her statutory declaration filing, labelling...

Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister, Aubyn Hill, says CARICOM has agreed to suspend the 30 per cent Common External Tariff (CET) to allow Jamaica to import ice at an affordable price. Hill provided the update at Wednesday's post-...

After finding several discrepancies in the government’s management of its social benefits programmes, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has urged the government to implement outstanding reforms to streamline its social protection efforts. In...

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is probing the fatal shooting of a man by the police in Portmore, St Catherine, on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old labourer Alex Madden of a Kingston 11...

WESTERN BUREAU: William Knibb Memorial High School, the alma mater of track and field legend Usain Bolt, will mark its 64th anniversary with a Founder’s Day Lecture tomorrow in the school’s auditorium. Former principal Anthony Falloon, a noted...

WESTERN BUREAU: Lenworth Fulton, immediate past president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), has embraced the Government’s plans to protect farmers from praedial larcenists by rolling out its agricultural warden programme in areas deemed ‘...

Now a centenarian, Anthony Edwards embodies a life of unwavering dedication and purpose. Guided by resilience, deep faith, and a profound love for others, he has shaped his path as a civil servant, evangelist, pastor, husband, and caregiver —...

Jamaican-Canadian author, educator and folklorist, Tania Hernandez, also known as ‘Miss Tania Lou’, has launched a new book about Jamaica’s cultural icon, Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately known as ‘Miss Lou’. On a cold winter weekend...

WESTERN BUREAU: Audley Gordon, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), is not supportive of a decision to deny potential sanitation workers employment because they lack the basic literacy skills to read at a...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South Africa's deepest gold mines on Tuesday to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners who were working illegally in an abandoned shaft and have been...

Coffee farmers are to benefit from the distribution of an additional 8,000 seedlings this January, says Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining Minister, Floyd Green. The move, he said, is part of a broader coffee restoration and expansion programme,...

The St Catherine North police are probing the shooting and injuring of a mentally ill man by a security guard at the Spanish Town Hospital on Monday night. Reports state that about 10:30 p.m. both men were at the health facility when the mentally...