The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) has announced that after an extensive review and validation of the 406 applications received for the Jamaica Screen Development Initiative (JSDI), two-thirds of the applicants have advanced to the...

Staying true to its commitment of empowering Jamaicans with financial tools and knowledge, and keeping people and communities connected, JN Money once again partnered with CB Chicken for PAN 2024. JN Money facilitated the money-management sessions...

Hugh Reid, general manager, JN Life Insurance Company Limited, wants Jamaica to consider a micro pension scheme as one key strategy to increase the number of persons enrolled in a retirement scheme and reduce the possibility of a pension crisis in...

WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, dean of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ), says candidates are no longer embracing the teaching profession the way they once did due to the financial limitations which do not allow educators to afford a...

A 26-member healthcare mission drawn from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will arrive in the island on September 4 for an 11-day visit. Headed by Dr Robert Clarke, chief medical adviser for the Northeast Diaspora, the health mission is under...

The Ministry of Education and Youth is reporting that students across Jamaica maintained a high level of performance in the May/June 2024 sitting of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). Portfolio Minister, Fayval Williams, said...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is again calling on persons not to make prank calls to the 119-emergency number. Manager of the JCF's Call Centre, Tania Ricketts, said that within a one-minute period, the police receive at least five prank...

Detectives in the St Andrew Central Police Division have charged a 19-year-old man in connection with a fatal gun attack along Studio One Boulevard earlier this month. He is Jamar James who is charged with murder, possession of prohibited weapon,...

As the new school year is set to begin in early September, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is urging the public to look out for children who are travelling alone. Head of the JCF's Social Media team, Sergeant Kayla Keane, noted that there...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be redoubling its efforts to curb violence in schools, using a multiplicity of strategies. Portfolio Minister, Fayval Williams, said these interventions will be guided by the Safety and Security Policy....

Former interim treasurer of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) Joy Harrison has been granted leave to appeal against a Supreme Court order which refused her application for leave to apply for judicial review arising from a decision by the...

A Trelawny farmer who reportedly fatally stabbed a man who allegedly owed him $5,000 was granted $650,000 bail when he appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court. The 24-year-old accused, Onique Small, otherwise called 'Ojay', of Hague...

The police in St James this morning seized two high-powered rifles, two magazines and thirty-two 5.56mm rounds of ammunition during a targeted raid in Top Gordon Crescent in Granville. They report that about 11:20 a.m., lawmen searched a structure...

Only 18 per cent of Jamaican students who sat this year's Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams received five or more subjects, inclusive of Mathematics and English, Education Minister Fayval Williams has disclosed.  This...

The Spanish Town police have arrested three people, including a 16-year-old boy, in connection with the seizure of an illegal gun along the Spanish Town Bypass on Sunday. The three suspects are from Corporate Area addresses. The police say about 1:...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says Dr Nigel Clarke's appointment as Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raises significant concerns about the future of Jamaica's economic management...

The Spanish Town police in St Catherine are trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was shot and killed by unknown assailants on Sunday. About 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, the police were summoned to Gulf Heights in Gordon Pen, Spanish Town, St...

Energy Minister Daryl Vaz is dismissing as “fake news” claims circulating on social media that oil has been discovered in Jamaican territory. Rumours of the alleged discovery of oil, which is said to be the equivalent of seven billion...

The bloodletting across the country resulted in 70 people being killed in three weeks in Jamaica from August 3 to 24, according to the latest police crime statistics.  The murder toll stood at 762, as at August 24.  The Jamaica...

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has proposed the appointment of Jamaica's Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke as Deputy Managing Director of the Fund. She announced the proposal to the...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he has identified a new finance minister amid the announcement that Dr Nigel Clarke is to take up the post of Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October. However,...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has announced that Councillor for the Chancery Hall Division, Duane Smith, will replace Dr Nigel Clarke as its standard bearer in the St Andrew North Western constituency. Clarke will be heading to the...

The St Ann police headquarters, in conjunction with the Sandals Foundation, Great Shape Inc, and the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) and other sponsors, catered to more than 250 people during their recent annual back-to-school health...

Education officers are being called on to foster a spirit of collaboration within schools as they prepare for the start of the 2024-2025 academic year in September. Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams made the call while addressing the...

With school scheduled to reopen in less than two weeks, National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB) is supporting families in Junction, Santa Cruz, Christiana, May Pen, and Mandeville with over J$1 million in back-to-school supplies and book...

Heeding the call by the government for members of the diaspora to invest in Jamaica, a group of diasporans have embarked on a project to invest almost US$90 million in a high-end villa resort in Negril, Westmoreland. Known as High Life Resort and...

If you ask Najae Murray, a 2024 Jamaican Chevening scholar, why he applied for the prestigious British government’s offering, his response would more than likely be because of “a chance encountered in a supermarket”. Last week, Murray was announced...

The main runway at Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St James, has been temporarily closed because of «minor damage». 

At least three fire units are currently battling a large blaze that has engulfed two houses in Pigdry in the Rio Grande Valley in eastern Portland.

Three men have been charged with the brutal rape and murder of 15-year-old Jamelia Cole, and the violent assault of three of her female relatives during a horrific attack at their home in Trelawny in August last year. 

The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it is on track to restore power to all its customers in St Elizabeth by its August 31 deadline.  

Twenty-one-year-old Ajay Demetrius, a chef from St Ann, has been charged over the stabbing of a man during a fight at a hotel in Trelawny on August 21.

The St Andrew police have charged 29-year-old mason Fitzroy Taylor, also known as ‘Kenroy,’ in connection with last week's murder of a 36-year-old welder at his home in Red Hills in the parish. 

A 36-year-old construction worker was shot dead at a wake for his grandmother in Johnson Pen, St Catherine, early Sunday morning.

The Clarendon police seized an AK-47 rifle during an operation in Portland Cottage on Friday.