The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is urging the public to exercise extreme caution in areas close to swamps, rivers, gullies and other known crocodile habitats as the animal is likely to be displaced following the heavy rains...

The National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCBJ), through its philanthropic arm N.C.B. Foundation, has announced the launch of a $300 million Disaster Relief Fund to support those affected by Hurricane Beryl. NCB says the foundation, working...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says that it has intervened and offered assistance to the children and their mother who were rescued from Caribbean Terrace in Harbour View, St Andrew during the passage of Hurricane Beryl. A...

The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) says it is working to restore electricity to the Savanna-La-Mar Public General Hospital in Westmoreland. Winds associated with the passage of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday downed several light poles one of which...

A search and rescue operation is now under way to find 11 fishermen who have been reported missing since Tuesday. The Maritime Air and Cyber Command (MACC) of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is currently conducting the operation. The JDF is...

Residents of Compound in Alligator Pond, located on the border of St Elizabeth and Manchester, are currently grappling with the severe aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.  The powerful storm left a trail of destruction, blowing off several roofs and...

Prime Minister  Andrew Holness says the Government is moving to quickly complete the damage assessment phase following passage of Hurricane Beryl. He says Cabinet is to meet to chart the way forward and determine the priority areas in the...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is pledging that delivery of relief to Jamaicans impacted by Hurricane Beryl will be structured, transparent and fair. The Prime Minister was speaking following an aerial and ground tour of sections...

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has advised that it has reopened several harbours subsequent to the completion of surveys and a review of reports. They were reopened yesterday evening to allow ships to enter and to proceed to berth at the...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that residents of Portmore, Spanish Town and its environs in St Catherine should soon be experiencing gradual restoration of their water supply service as the network currently recharges. ...

The St Catherine North police are searching for the killers of a man who was gunned down along Young Street in Spanish Town on Thursday. Killed was 36-year-old labourer Antonio Patterson, otherwise called 'Oney', of a Spanish Town ...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it has restored power to 80,000 customers across the island in the last 24 hours. It says the areas restored are predominantly in Kingston and St Andrew, St Catherine and St Thomas, with...

WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the loss of electricity and mobile-service connectivity in sections of St James following Hurricane Beryl as well as some roads being impassable due to downed trees, Montego Bay’s Mayor, Richard Vernon, is voicing gratitude...

WESTERN BUREAU: Heavy rains and storm-force winds associated with the passage of Hurricane Beryl left a devastating impact on the 286-year-old The Manning’s School in Westmoreland. Administrators of the school on Thursday related major damage to...

Hurricane Beryl left Portmore grappling with significant damage, particularly in Hellshire Beach and the surrounding areas. The Category 4 system left a trail of destruction on Wednesday, with two houses in Greater Portmore extensively damaged and...

WESTERN BUREAU: Courtney Walcott’s four-acre farm in Zion, Trelawny, was once fruitful and promising. However, he lost everything during Wednesday’s passing of Hurricane Beryl. Walcott explained that his papaya, plantain, and banana plants were all...

PORTLAND: “Nine hours of hell” is how one Portland resident described the ferocious onslaught during the passage of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday. Cyrus Bell, a 69-year-old resident of Bryan’s Bay, referred to the gusty winds from Beryl as being...

Lawmen assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division apprehended and formally charged 39-year-old Glenford Smith of Caribbean Estate, St Catherine following an incident on Friday, June 7, during which Smith attempted to bribe the police....

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Labour Party is headed for a landslide victory in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. The...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Mining is reporting significant damage to several facilities and agricultural projects following the passage of Hurricane Beryl over Jamaica on Wednesday. “Despite the challenges posed by the...

Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Daryl Vaz, has summoned the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company, Flow and Digicel to give an update on the restoration of critical utilities. The minister has asked each entity to...

The St Andrew South Police are probing the circumstances that led to the shooting death of two men in two separate incidents on Fifth Street, Greenwich Town, Kingston 13, today. In the first incident, about 10:35 a.m., an unidentified man was shot...

Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says it is working closely with the banks to ensure the restoration of normal banking services across the island in the shortest possible time. However, BOJ noted that the absence of utility services across the island, the...

The Ministry of Health & Wellness is advising members of the public that the risk of being infected with diseases such as leptospirosis increases after the passage of heavy rainfall. Leptospirosis is a disease that spreads from animals to...

The police are now seeking to ascertain the identity of a man whose body washed up on  Port Henderson Beach in Portmore, St Catherine. The body was reportedly discovered by a fisherman about 11 a.m. and he alerted the police. A team...

The Judiciary of Jamaica says due to the effects of Hurricane Beryl all courts across the island will remain closed for the rest of the week. It says comprehensive assessments of all court facilities are being conducted today and tomorrow to...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness says it has been advised of three cases of carbon monoxide poisoning related to the use of generators. Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, tasteless gas and is produced when fuel and other carbon-...

United Kingdom, AP – Voters in the United Kingdom are casting their ballots in a national election to choose the 650 lawmakers who will sit in Parliament for the next five years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised his own party on May 22...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) has advised that its tax offices remain closed to the public today. It says its teams are conducting impact assessments and procedures to safely bring systems back online. Operations are expected to resume on Friday...

Government offices across the island are to reopen today following the passage of Hurricane Beryl. A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister said normal operations will resume and all public sector workers are to return to office today....

 The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is advising commuters that service will resume on a phased schedule. In a statement on Thursday, it said an assessment is under way and data on passable routes is being reviewed to determine...

Operations at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston are expected to resume tomorrow, while the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay reopened at 8 a.m. today following the passage of Hurricane Beryl. A report from the...

The United Nations has announced that US$4 million will be made available from the Central Emergency Response Fund to kickstart humanitarian operations in Jamaica, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the wake of Hurricane...

Hurricane Beryl has left a trail of devastation across the southern parishes of Manchester and St Elizabeth where infrastructure was severely impacted by the system's strong winds and driving rain. Member of Parliament for Southwest St...

HURRICANE BERYL has barreled across the Caribbean over recent days, leaving in its wake billions of dollars in damage, death and devastation; together with a powerful reminder that small island developing states (SIDS) are living climate change. “...