A man accused of defrauding almost US$7,000 from three women in an overseas job scheme was granted bail in the sum of $500,000 with surety in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. When Kirk Letford, 30, appeared before Senior Parish Court judge...

Two men were arrested in relation to the seizure of a firearm during a police operation along Henley Road, Waterhouse, Kingston 11, on Saturday. The nine millimetre pistol, with serial number erased, and a magazine containing six...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, through the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), has made a significant investment to support farmers in St Elizabeth with the commissioning of two new water trucks. The units, each with a...

The police at the Norman Manley International Airport have arrested and charged an American citizen who was allegedly held with ammunition in his luggage on Saturday night. Shane Samuels, 41-year-old welder, of Westerlage Street, Los Angeles, USA,...

A St Catherine businessman has been charged after he allegedly locked his girlfriend in his bedroom where he physically and sexually assaulted her. Twenty-seven-year-old Davian Smythe, of Myrtle Avenue, Phoenix Park Village, Portmore,...

MEMBERS OF the public have met the ‘Confession and apology by the United Reformed Church (URC) concerning Transatlantic Slavery (General Assembly, Swanwick, July 2022)’ with some amount of doubt and cynicism. However, we do well to listen and...

SEXUAL IMMORALITY is another thing that attracts strong generational curses. God made it clear that he hates it and will not fail to curse anybody that involves in it. He allows sexual relationship only between a husband and his wife. Anything...

IT IS God who created us as sexual beings, male and female. God didn’t accidentally create us, and therefore, our sexuality isn’t an accident, regardless of the circumstances of our birth. God created us the way He did on purpose. When God looks at...

The great majority of the patrons who turned up at the recent ‘Fun in the Son’ free concert at the National Stadium went to see and hear Kirk Franklin more than any of the other artistes. His reputation for giving scintillating performances...

United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church by giving rule-making autonomy to each region of the international church...

The police have significantly dented the incidence of motor vehicle thefts at shopping centres in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, with the aid of the JamaicaEye closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system. Sub-Officer in charge of the...

JMMB Bank has confirmed that the Visa debit cards of a «small portion» of its clients have experienced a Bank Identification Number (BIN) attack. It notes that a BIN attack is a common tool used around the world, for external fraudsters...

A policeman has been hospitalised after he was shot and injured in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday. It's reported that about 11:40 a.m., the corporal was doing business at West Henderson Boulevard in Greater Portmore when he saw...

A plea and case management hearing has been set for September 20 for two policemen charged with the 2008 fatal shooting of a teenager along Job Lane in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Sergeant Gurvin Leachman of the St Catherine North Division and Dane...

A man is dead following a motorcycle collision with a cow along the Waterworks main road in Westmoreland on Friday night.  The deceased man has been identified as Donathon Dillon, otherwise called Dego. Dillon was reportedly flung from his...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced the appointment of Dr Dodridge Miller as its seventh Chancellor, the highest office-holder in The UWI system. Now formally Chancellor-Designate, Miller is expected to serve a seven-...

WESTERN BUREAU: The proposed merger between the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), which was announced by Minister of Industry Investment and Commerce, Aubyn Hill, last year, is still in the making and should...

WESTERN BUREAU: Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says that, as part of ongoing efforts to improve service delivery for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), two technical working groups will be...

TORONTO: Seventy years ago, a 35-member delegation, led by community icon, Barbados-born Donald Willard Moore, which included Jamaican leaders Bromley Armstrong, Harry Gairey Sr, and Stanley Grizzle, who was of Jamaican heritage, travelled to...

Four beneficiaries have collectively received a donation of $500,000 from the Sagicor Foundation, at the recent Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence. The event which took place last Saturday, at the lawns of Jamaica House,...

The Girl Guides Association of Jamaica is about volunteerism and redirection for young women, and the organisation wants Jamaica to know that it is still in service. Girl Guides has impacted thousands of lives over the decades, and it is all thanks...

SANTA ROSA, California (AP) — Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday...

An unidentified man was shot and killed in St James on Friday evening.  The man, who is said to have been a resident of Salt Spring in the parish, was reportedly attacked while sitting on a motorbike in front of a gas station in Ironshore....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has strongly condemned Thursday's killing of a schoolboy in Grange Hill, Westmoreland. Sixteen-year-old Carson Bennett, a student of Grange Hill High school was reportedly killed when rival gangs engaged in a...

In a tangible demonstration of community empowerment, Jennifer Brown, affectionately called Miss Jenny, unveiled the culmination of her philanthropic work in Norwood, St James: the Miss Jenny Homework Centre. Constructed through the grant awarded...

The fire department in Trelawny is concerned about the escalating number of bush fires across the parish. "We started with eight in January and to date we are at 90,” Superintendent Roland Walters told The Gleaner. “To respond to...

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, says there are no plans to use the Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC) complex for another purpose. He made the disclosure during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at...

Opposition Junior Spokesperson on Citizen Security Jouvaughnie Byfield is condemning Thursday's shooting in Grange Hill, Westmoreland in which two high school students were shot, one fatally. Killed was 16-year-old Carson Barrett, a student of...

The Island Traffic Authority is reporting that its depots are currently unable to issue certificates of fitness to drivers due to challenges with its system. The authority says motorists who go to renew their fitness certificates will have their...

The Ministry of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport has taken another step in the implementation of the new Road Traffic Act, with the swearing in of the Road Traffic Appeal Tribunal. The swearing in took place at the ministry's...

The board of management of St James High School has referred the matter of the expulsion of two schoolgirls who were seen kissing in a video to its personnel committee for deliberation on the next steps to be taken. The school's principal...

The Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporation (JDIC) will be pursuing the establishment of newer protection schemes to minimise the potential occurrence and impact of financial crises during fiscal year 2024/25. Implementation of these and other...

After being on the run for almost three years, 45-year-old Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine photographer Darian Clarke has been charged in connection with a 2021 gun attack in the municipality that left two men injured. Clarke turn himself in to...

Some 1,065 uniformed firefighters and civilian staff of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) are expected to benefit from training and certification through an agreement with the HEART/NSTA Trust. Stewart Beckford, commissioner of the JFB, said the...

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY Mayor Richard Vernon is urging garage and workshop operators in St James to get their businesses regulated within the next two months. Vernon warned that enforcement will take place after that period against any such...