Jamaica has moved up eight places in the latest World Press Freedom Index and is now the number-one ranked country in the Caribbean. The country now ranks 24 out of 180 nations in the 2024 release of the World Press Freedom Index, with a score of...

Thirty-six-year-old Teino Carnegie, who suffered multiple injuries after he allegedly jumped from a hotel window after being discovered with an illegal gun, has been granted $300,000 bail. When the matter was mentioned in the St Catherine...

The police are now processing a crime scene at Innis Bay beach, at Long Road in Portland, where the body of a man was discovered with multiple chop wounds. The body, which has not yet been identified, was discovered shortly after 5 a.m. by a...

THE ST Elizabeth Health Department (SEHD) is strengthening its support for adolescents in the parish through the revival of adolescent health clinics for youths aged 10 to 19 years. The adolescent health programme was operational from as far back...

FOR SEVERAL years while he managed the Alexandria Police Station, then Sergeant Ricardo Beckford earned the trust of community members through innovative and tried and proven community outreach programmes. In the November 26, 2021 edition of The...

Digita Global Marketing Ltd (DGM) in collaboration with Smart Mobile Solutions (SMS) has committed to sponsor two years of internet service and technical support for Annie Dawson’s Home, valued at $300,000.00 as well as providing 15 Alcatel tablets...

WARD OF the State, Jehvoun Byfield, has been honoured for being the Top Performing Boy in the 2023 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). The Kingston College (KC)...

TRELAWNY IS widely known for its yellow yam, and as the birth parish of track superstars Veronica Campbell and Usain Bolt. And Toni-Ann Williams, a strawberry farmer, might be another reason why this western Jamaica parish is world renowned. Yet,...

Omar Collymore today refuted the reports from his ex-mistress, claiming it was he who ended their three-year love affair two months before his wife was murdered but that the woman kept begging him to rekindle the romance because she could not...

Improved service delivery and the protection of consumer interest will remain a priority for the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) during 2024/25. Activities in the telecommunications sector will continue to be geared towards facilitating access...

A town hall meeting will be held in Portland next week, following Wednesday's 4.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island. The earthquake's epicentre was located approximately five kilometres south of Hope Bay in the parish. The...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Government of Canada and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) have reaffirmed their intended cooperation and collaboration to work jointly to respond when the impact of natural...

Former People's National Party Member of Parliament for Western St Mary, Jolyan Silvera, who is charged with the murder of his wife, will know on May 14 if he will be granted bail. The bail application was made today by King's Counsel Peter...

A police-military team today seized over 100 cartons of cigarettes during an operation in the community of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The cigarettes were discovered at a premises. The police say the team went to the area in search of...

Proceedings at the St Catherine courthouse were today adjourned early due to flooding from heavy rains that lashed sections of Spanish Town. Corridors were left under water from the downpour, which saw persons, including attorneys, complainants...

A 23-year-old man has been charged for the fatal stabbing of his cousin during a dispute in St Elizabeth. He is Romane Deenwell, otherwise called 'Chineyman', a farmer of Donegal district in Brighton. He is accused of killing Onandi Bell,...

A police-military team today seized over 100 cartons of cigarettes during an operation in the community of March Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The cigarettes were discovered at a premises. The police say the team went to the area in search of...

The St James Parish Court today ordered that a request be made for Shamoya Green, the woman accused of throwing her infant daughter from a roof to her death, to get psychiatric care at the hospital where she is currently receiving treatment for...

Omar Collymore, a Barbados-born American citizen, is claiming that personnel from the United States had warned him to leave Jamaica shortly after his wife was gunned down on January 2, 2018. The admission was made by Collymore in response to...

A man has been charged in relation to last month's fatally shooting of a policeman and the injury of a female vendor in St Ann. Charged with murder, shooting with intent, possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorized possession of...

The police in St Ann are probing a case of murder and arson in relation to the death of an 80-year-old woman in Spring Garden in Bamboo on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Sylvia Barrett. The police report that about 6:15 pm, fire was...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that motorists may experience minor delays over the next three days as it undertakes work along sections of the Hopewell main road in Hanover. The NWA says the sections of the corridor are being upgraded...

A 29-year-old man has been charged by the police for the August 2023 shooting death of another in his home on Dunrobin Avenue in St Andrew. Charged with murder and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition is Romario Codner, otherwise called...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting that the Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Clinic at St Joseph Hospital in St Andrew will scale down its activities today and tomorrow. During this time, the clinic's team will only be seeing pre-operative...

Two men were freed in the Gun Court on Tuesday following a successful no-case submission. They were charged with illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition. Their attorneys, Orville Morgan and Ayisha...

Jamaica has received a donation of US$3 million from the nonprofit humanitarian group Direct Relief, which will be channelled through the National Health Fund (NHF) to strengthen the public health system. Speaking at a handover ceremony on April 30...

The HEART/NSTA Trust’s first Autonomous Mobile and Aerial Robotics Lab was opened at the agency’s College of Innovation and Technology (HCIT) in Montego Bay, St James, on Thursday, April 25. HEART’s Managing Director Dr Taneisha Ingleton, who spoke...

Jamaica’s Net International Reserves (NIR) being at its highest ever, at US$5 billion, illustrates how much the nation has recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, says Norman Dunn, minister of state in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. As...

The Portmore Municipal Corporation (PMC) is currently operating at only 48 per cent of the required staff complement, resulting in challenges across various departments and affecting its ability to effectively deliver services to residents....

WESTERN BUREAU: Deputy Superintendent of Police Adrian Hamilton, commander of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) detachment for the CARICOM Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti, says the JCF team has the agility and commitment to...

Sections of Jamaica were this evening rattled by an earthquake. The Earthquake Unit reported that the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 and was located approximately five km south of Hope Bay, Portland. It struck at 8:02 p.m. The earthquake...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is urging road users traversing the Elegant Corridor in St James to exercise extreme caution, especially as they navigate the intersection in the vicinity of the Half Moon resort, as traffic signals ...

A policeman who allegedly sexually assaulted a female colleague was granted $500,000 bail with one or two sureties in the St Catherine Parish Court on Tuesday. The accused, Sergeant Junior Rhule, is...

Information Minister Robert Morgan on Wednesday declined to comment on a recent People's National Party (PNP)-commissioned Don Anderson poll which gives the opposition party a 7.8 percentage point lead over the ruling Jamaica Labour Party(JLP...

Jamaica's visitor arrivals have not been negatively affected by travel advisories, says Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett. Addressing Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, he said travel advisories are the “...