YEARS AGO, Frank Lumsden, colonel of Charles Town Maroon village, wanted his niece, Nomali Lumsden-Campbell, a music educator, to contribute in a significant way to the annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival. Colonel...

A DONATION of CAD$4,400 along with school supplies from the Travel Agent Community of Canada and the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) have put wind beneath the wings of Wings Kidz, a Montego Bay-based charity that supports atrisk children. Wings Kidz...

The now customary Emancipation Vigil Ceremony formed part of this year’s observance of Emancipation Day by St James on August 1. The event was staged at Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, and was attended by several notable guests. Heading these were...

PARIS (AP): Ilona Maher, America’s rugby-playing social media sweetheart, walked on to the terrace of Team USA House carrying a sandwich, the United States’ first-ever rugby sevens Olympic medal hanging around her neck. In between a rapid-fire...

Rooted deeply in the history of the Caribbean is the art of pottery making. Pottery has evolved from a necessity skill for making tools and utensils among the region’s first inhabitants to a more decorative reminder which pays homage to the history...

The police in St Elizabeth are searching for a group of gunmen who robbed occupants of a house in Luana Gardens on Thursday afternoon. The men, who were armed with high-powered rifles, reportedly made off with $2 million. The incident happened...

The security forces on Thursday seized 347 assorted rounds of ammunition and 11 magazines at a premises in Awful Gully, Cambridge, St James. The police say five persons were arrested in relation to the seizure. They say about 7:30 a.m. a joint...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Dr Kasan Troupe, has informed that the Ministry is far advanced in its plans to recruit overseas teachers to fill vacancies in the school system for the upcoming school year. Troupe made...

Eighteen-year-old Trelawny farmer Vashjay Murphy was on Thursday charged with the murder of another farmer who was killed during an altercation. The charge is in relation to the death of 45-year-old farmer Vinzel Facey of Blind Lane in Warsop in...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has directed the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) to restore electricity to all its customers by August 12. In a media release on Friday, the OUR said failure to comply with the directive within...

The Ocho Rios police in St Ann are investigating the murder of a raft operator in the parish on Thursday night. He has been identified as 38-year-old Troy Cooper, otherwise called 'Slaughter',  of Prosper Hall, Exchange, St Ann....

WESTERN BUREAU: While grateful that the passage of Hurricane Beryl did not dampen its CoralCarib project in Portland, Anna Ebanks-Chin, marine conservation programme manager at Nature Conservancy, is hoping that more Jamaicans will play a role in...

Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen hosted the 62nd Independence reception on the lawns of King’s House last Thursday to kick-start the Emancipendence festivities. The National Museum of Jamaica and the National Gallery of Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU: A Frenchman who is accused of swallowing 110 pellets of cocaine, which he had planned to smuggle out of Jamaica, made his first appearance in the St James Parish Court last Friday and was instructed to retain the services of a...

WESTERN BUREAU: Ambitious 23-year-old Cornel Fisher, a first-generation Jamaican, is hoping to become the next town supervisor for Greenburgh, New York, in the United States. Fisher launched his campaign just last month and is already looking...

ON SUNDAY, August 11 a huge breeze of poetry will be passing through the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech) in Papine, St Andrew, to manifest SenYAcum Edutainment’s 14th Annual Jamaica Poetry Festival (JPF), in partnership with UTech, the...

Thirty-five-year-old Shawayne Elliot, a mechanic of Bydale district, Milk River, Clarendon, has been charged in connection with an attack on a woman. Elliot was on Tuesday charged with assault at common law. The incident happened in Gibraltar on...

The Government has provided the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) with 40 additional vehicles, at a cost of over $313 million. They include 20 Mitsubishi L200 pickups; seven Toyota Hilux pickups; and 10 Kia Sorento Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs)....

The Ministry of Education and Youth has commenced repairs at schools severely damaged during the passage of Hurricane Beryl. Portfolio Minister, Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday...

Principals of some Corporate Area schools are voicing their support for the Ministry of Education and Youth’s plan to recruit foreign teachers to fill vacancies in the school system for the upcoming school year. However, the school administrators...

Caribbean conservationists are encouraging small island developing states (SIDS) to place greater attention on disaster risk management and prevention measures, so that the appropriate strategies are in place and actionable before the countries are...

AT MIDNIGHT on August 1, 1838, Governor Sir Lionel Smith read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps of the portico of the governor’s mansion in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Yet, that was not the beginning of full freedom. The people were still...

A bus conductor who was accused of having sexual intercourse with a teen girl was on Wednesday freed in the St Catherine Parish Court. Heron Byfield was charged with having sexual intercourse with someone under age 16, sexual grooming of a child,...

There is heavy security presence consisting of the police and military now outside the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in downtown Kingston awaiting the release of dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel. A large crowd of people including the...

Jubilant cheers echoed throughout a section of 'Gaza City' in Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine as news came of the freeing of dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel by the Court of Appeal today. The community was eerily quiet when a Gleaner...

Newly minted president of the Court of Appeal Justice Marva McDonald Bishop, in freeing Vybz Kartel and his three co-appellants, today said that it was not in the interest of justice to order a retrial. McDonald Bishop, in a highly anticipated...

Dancehall star Vybz Kartel is now out of the State's custody and is back on Jamaican streets. The 48-year-old artiste, who is battling ill health, was met by adoring fans as he left the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in downtown ...

Supporters of dancehall artiste Adidja 'Vybz Kartel' Palmer erupted in dance and song when they received news that the entertainer, who had been incarcerated for 13 years, was now a free man.  The initially small crowd that had...

Dancehall star Vybz Kartel is free. The Court of Appeal just ruled that he and three co-accused should not be retried for murder. Freedom, a day before Jamaica celebrates Emancipation Day, caps an almost 13-year journey of arrests, trial,...

The Court of Appeal is set to rule at 2 p.m. Wednesday whether entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused will face retrial for the murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams or be set free. On March 14, 2024, the United Kingdom-based Privy Council...

A man who the police said was on bail on a murder charge was fatally shot in Linstead on Tuesday after he allegedly challenged the police with an illegal gun. The deceased is D'Angelo Creighton, otherwise called 'Hot Head', a 33 year...

The Spanish Town police are trying to ascertain the identity of a man whose body was found floating in the Rio Cobre in St Catherine on Tuesday. It is reported that the body was spotted by passersby about 4:00 p.m., in the...

The Opposition People's National Party is urging the Ministry of Finance to provide explicit guidelines on the eligibility criteria for duty-free relief on imports related to Hurricane Beryl recovery. Opposition Spokesman on Finance,...