Reputed leader of the St Catherine-based Clansman Gang Tesha Miller is objecting to the electronic serving of material by the Crown on the basis that he cannot electronically access them while being incarcerated to prepare his defence. A letter...

An attempt by defence lawyers to have five men - implicated in an almost $12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew - brought back before the court next month for a bail application, was shut down by parish judge Maxine Ellis yesterday....

AFTER EMANCIPATION in 1838 the peasantry class emerged out of the former enslaved people. Some people were established in free villages, from which cheap labour was supplied for the plantations that still thrived from the legacy of slavery. It was...

Dancehall icon Vybz Kartel has increased his followers by 70,000 so far this month on key streaming platform Spotify, bringing his total followers on that platform to over 1.45 million, signalling the continued relevance of the artiste who first...

Cybercriminals have targeted security systems in Jamaica four million times in the first half of this year, a significant decline from the 43 million times recorded in 2023. However this reduction should not be a source of respite for businesses...

The Hanover police on Tuesday seized approximately two kilogrammes of cocaine in a barrel in an abandoned building in Orange Bay. The police say the illicit drug has an estimated street value of $3 million. No one was arrested in relation to the...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is calling for a swift investigation into the murder of Bruce Gordon, the brother of PNP Councillor for the Catadupa Division in St James Kenroy Gordon, who was gunned down during a reported...

Motorists will pay less for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $3.06 to sell for $174.40 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will also go down by $3.06 to sell for $183.42...

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has extended its grace period for paying electricity bills by a month, giving customers until September 15 to make payment and avoid disconnection. Further, customers who have been without supply since...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says independent quantity surveyors will be recruited to assess the repair works being done to schools that were severely damaged during the passage of Hurricane Beryl on July 3. Speaking on day three of the...

Despite the Ministry of Education's efforts to tackle violence in schools, Portfolio Minister Fayval Williams says more work must be done to adequately address the underlying issues contributing to the problem. While addressing today's...

The family of four-year-old Shakeil Patterson, who has been missing since Sunday, is appealing for the public's assistance for his safe return home. Young Shakeil reportedly went missing in Friendship, Westmoreland during a grave digging....

The five men, including a 72-year-old, who are implicated in the almost $12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew, were remanded for medical examination when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on...

Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says based on the $400 million special consumption tax (SCT) concession on automotive diesel oil (ADO) granted to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), there should have been no more than a six per cent hike...

Education Minister Fayval Williams says the government will not be inundating the education sector with foreign teachers, amid concern about the plan to recruit educators from overseas. She says foreign teachers have long been a part of the...

A brutal attack at a wake in Cudjoe Hill, St Catherine, early Wednesday morning has left one man dead and eight others injured. The wake was being held in honour of the late grandmother of entertainer Christopher Martin when two gunmen struck. The...

Nineteen-year-old TikTok content creator, Tevin Gayle, otherwise known as 'Wacky Donn', of Cooke Street, Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland, has been charged with murder. He's charged in relation to the stabbing death of 18-year-old...

The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a rural women empowerment and environmental sustainability acceleration programme, an initiative to be piloted in Jamaica, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. A women’s...

SOON, THE monarchy of Britain will not be the head of the Jamaican state. It has been such since 1661, six years after the British, led by Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, arrived on the Spanish-ruled island on May 10, 1655. The...

John-Ross Crooks is on a mission to become Jamaica’s first software engineer for bridging medical technology. It is a goal he aims to reach with his latest achievement. He was selected alongside Joshua Newsome to receive the National Commercial...

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Damion Crawford, the opposition spokesperson on education, training and competitiveness, says some 1,400 teachers are expected to leave the local classroom for jobs in the United States (US) ahead of the start of the new...

Retired Senior Parish Court Judge, Sheron Barnes, has urged local judges to avoid the ‘high-handed’ approach to justice and instead share with persons the reasoning behind their decisions handed down in courts. Barnes, who retired in July after...

Two alleged robbers who were captured by the police on Old Hope Road in St Andrew on August 9 have been charged. They are 22-year-old Alex Bailey, a mechanic of Glasspole Avenue, Kingston 2, and 19-year-old Oshane Wood, a mechanic of...

Detectives assigned to the Portland Police Division have charged eight people in relation to the murder of a man at his home in Bamboo Tree Lane, Fairy Hill district in the parish on August 7. The police say the charges follow weeks of...

Two men have been charged in relation to the seizure of a firearm on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew on August 12. They are 24-year-old Ackeem Gooden, a taxi operator of Greater Portmore, St Catherine, and 24-year-old-year-old Markeion Slater, a...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is calling for the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) to immediately rollback the major increases on customers' August electricity bills. JLP spokesperson, Kerensia Morrison, said in a statement released to the...

As the start of the 2024/25 academic year approaches, parents are being encouraged to safeguard their children against hand, foot and mouth disease. This urging comes from Health Promotion and Education Officer for Westmoreland, Gerald Miller, who...

The Ministry of Energy has set up dedicated email addresses to receive complaints from persons regarding their latest electricity bills, following widespread outcry over massive increases. The ministry says the email addresses will "...

Two new permanent secretaries are expected to be assigned to the ministries of health and wellness, and labour and social security in September. A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant in government, responsible for running a...

Immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Leighton Johnson, says the organisation's signing of a wage agreement in 2023, which is now the subject of a lawsuit against the association, was done with approval...

A light earthquake of preliminary magnitude 4.5 was felt in Jamaica on Tuesday morning. The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies says the epicentre was located approximately 20 kilometres north of Port Antonio, Portland. It was...

Fewer students received passing grades in this year's Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics and English language exams when compared with last year.  This is based on data released by the Caribbean Examinations...

The St Andrew North police are probing the fatal shooting of a taxi operator in Iron River, St Andrew, on Monday night. The deceased has been identified as 41-year-old Gregory Francis, also known as 'Greg', of  Iron River. It is...

MEMBERS OF the Jamaican diaspora have committed their support to the Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation (JKKF) and small craft business JunlynArtz to help move their operations forward. JKKF, a registered charity organisation helping to improve the...