Forty-year-old motorcyclist, Winston Clarke, of Bounty Hall, Trelawny, was killed after he collided with a motor car in Granville in the parish on Thursday. Corporal Kirkland Crosse of the Trelawny Traffic Department told The Gleaner that...

Minister of Transport Daryl Vaz has expressed deep sadness at the tragic crash involving a female pedestrian in St Catherine on Friday, vowing that the Government will work tirelessly to prevent such accidents from occurring in the...

A raft of charges, including murder, shooting and assault, have been laid against an alleged 23-year-old gangster who the police say has been linked to cases of gang-related homicides, shootings, arson and beheading in Gregory Park, Portmore, St...

A former Waterhouse footballer, who was accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, was today freed of rape and abduction. Stephorn Brown, 28, was found not guilty on both charges by a seven-member jury, following a trial in the Home Circuit Court. The...

A Jamaican food truck owner is among 30 people arrested and charged after it was discovered that food containers served by the truck came not just with Jamaican meals, but drugs and guns, according to law enforcement agents in New York. Law...

Twenty-year-old customer service representative, Brittny Hunter, was killed in a vehicular collision as she attempted to cross Walks Road in St Catherine on Friday. Hunter, who resided in Commodore, Linstead in the parish, reportedly...

A former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force was found dead at home in a case of suspected suicide on Thursday in Clarendon. The deceased has been identified as Daleon Butler, 65, of Tulip Street, Longville Park, Clarendon. About 6:...

The Government has reached an agreement with unions representing public-sector workers on extra time (overtime) and other key matters relating to conditions of service. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke, made the...

The police have charged a St James man who was allegedly caught transporting illegal Haitian migrants on May 22. Thirty-three-year-old Christopher Piggott, otherwise called 'Boysie', a labourer of Montpelier district, Anchovy, St James, has...

Another taxi operator has been killed near Linstead in St Catherine, raising alarm among public passenger transport operators in the parish. The deceased has been identified as Nigel Mighty, 48, of Deeside and Wakefield district, Linstead, St...

Government regulator Financial Services Commission (FSC) has lost control of fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) and must hand over the reins of the company to licensed trustee Caydion Campbell.  Justice David Batts ruled this...

WESTERN BUREAU: Sporadic shootings in the resort town of Negril, including Tuesday night’s shooting along the popular Norman Manley Boulevard, and the constant blood-letting in nearby St James is creating jitters among tourism stakeholders in...

WESTERN BUREAU: A request by a female detective constable from Westmoreland for the Government to consider allowing the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to establish a dedicated blood bank for police officers has not found favour with National...

Jamaica's National Disaster Fund now stands at more than $550 million, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced. This marks a substantial increase from the $100 million in the fund at its inception, said Holness, who also chairs the National...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is encouraging farmers to ramp up mitigation strategies to control the beet armyworm population in their fields. The beet armyworm, which develops into a moth commonly called the Small Mottled...

Some supporters of jailed dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel were left disappointed this afternoon after a court ruled that he and his co-accused should remain behind bars pending a decision in the Court of Appeal on whether they should be retried...

Jamaica is moving ahead with the establishment of the country's first unemployment insurance scheme. Details of the proposed model, governance, management, and investment strategy will be submitted to Cabinet for approval in the current...

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, has disclosed that he is a British citizen, in a statement in which he said he was taking steps to renounce his citizenship of the United Kingdom (UK...

Minister of Education Fayval Williams has condemned Wednesday's violent attack on a teacher at Vere Technical High School in Clarendon. The incident, which happened on the school compound, involved a teacher and relatives of a student....

The Supreme Court has ruled that dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused are to remain behind bars pending a decision in the Court of Appeal on whether they should be retried for murder. The court's decision today followed a habeas...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has introduced a pilot programme for the employment of capable persons with disabilities in the Overseas Employment Programme. This initiative involves partnering with the Abilities Foundation, engaging...

A man who pleaded guilty to arson was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with three years supervision in the St Catherine Circuit today.  Javanie Langley, a 20-year-old labourer of Bellas Gated district in St Catherine, was...

The Clarendon police are now on the hunt for a man who allegedly ditched a bag with two guns and ammunition and escaped police capture in Four Paths in the parish on Wednesday. It's reported that about 1:30 p.m., a police party was...

Fraud charges have been laid against a St Catherine travel agent who allegedly collected more than $1 million from a group of high school teachers to book hotel rooms on their behalf but failed to do so. The accused is Denese Faulknor, 39...

A three-year-old boy is dead while five others are nursing injuries at hospital, after a man believed to be of unsound mind chopped members of a family in St Mary on Wednesday.  The deceased has been identified as Asha Campbell of Pagee Street...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the Brown's Town community in Kingston 16. The curfew began at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and will remain in effect until 6 p.m., Friday. The boundaries of the curfew are: NORTH: Along Cumberland Avenue...

Fenley Douglas, councillor for the Waterford division in Portmore, has criticised Robert Miller, member of parliament for St Catherine South East, and Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton for failing to deliver on a promise made in...

The Caribbean Poison Information Network (CARPIN) at the University of Technology, Jamaica is observing Poison Prevention Week from May 26-31 under the theme ‘Poison Connection – Linking Each Facet of Society’. Poison information coordinator at...

WESTERN BUREAU: Thomas Edwards, the Manchester resident who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle $18.7 million worth of cocaine through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport on May 22, was offered bail in the sum of $1.2 million when...

The Integrity Commission (IC) has indicated that former head of the Registrar General's Department (RGD) Charlton McFarlane is now complaint with the law after he paid fines and submitted outstanding income and assets declarations.

Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams, is urging school administrators to make graduation ceremonies accessible to all students. Noting that they are pivotal events that mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of another for the...

A teacher at Vere Technical High School in Clarendon reportedly had to seek medical attention and is at home nursing injuries after she was allegedly assaulted by a parent and three students, two of whom are the woman's children. The...

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is using the Bushfire Warning Index provided by the National Meteorological Service to better anticipate and respond to bush fires across the island, says Minister of Local Government and Community Development,...