The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says it has identified the school in which a video-recorded bullying incident occurred and is sending a team there today to provide counselling to the students. In the video which has...

Pollster Don Anderson and Merritone Music owner Monte Blake are among four people to receive honorary doctorates at The University of the West Indies, Mona, graduation ceremonies from October 31 to November 2. President and CEO of VM...

WASHINGTON, CMC – US President Joe Biden has named Jamaica among four CARICOM states on a list of countries designated as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries for the fiscal year 2025. Biden named The Bahamas,...

ROMELL MESSAM knew since he was five years old that he wanted to become a teacher. He developed a love for technology, and during his high school years, decided that he wanted to get intricately involved in this area of study. “I knew I would...

DATA SCIENTIST Gillian Jackson sees the employment of smart technology as critical to advancing financial inclusion, particularly in the Caribbean, where micro and small businesses continue to lag in their adaptation of digital technology and the...

CLERICAL OFFICER Janet Miller’s* stress level has escalated over the last few weeks because she was not prepared to cover the tuition expenses for her son, who will be attending university this academic year. The private-sector worker was banking...

THE JAMAICA Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is optimistic that the Digital Jamaica Summit...

Held under the Police on Patrol Uplifting People (POPUP) initiative, as well as members of the St Catherine North Police Division last week continued their stakeholders intervention in Guy’s Hill, St Catherine. The occasion saw the police, in...

Defence lawyers are expected to make a bail application on October 24 for Leoda Bradshaw and her alleged accomplices, implicated in the murder of politician Phillip Paulwell's 10-month-old daughter, Sarayah, and her mother, Toshyna Patterson....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Last year had the worst decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in almost a half-century, driven by government intimidation, foreign interference, disinformation and the misuse of artificial...

Member of Parliament for Central Kingston, the Jamaica Labour Party's Donovan Williams, says it is urgent that the country speaks with a unified voice against violence and deviant behaviour which is being normalised, accepted and even showcased...

A 34-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his father was acquitted of murder in the St Catherine Circuit Court today, after the prosecution upheld his claim of self defence. The accused, Charles Hall, a labourer from Sligoville District in St...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces federal charges in New York, his lawyer said late this evening. Details of the charges weren't immediately announced by prosecutors, but Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a...

Four Old Harbour, St Catherine men accused of chopping a man to death and burying his dismembered body were freed in the circuit court today because two witnesses in the case are dead. Further, the court was told that a third witness is unwilling...

Proper private arrangements are to be made with reputable service providers for the disposal of commercial garbage. This was stated by Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Andrew Swaby, during the recent meeting of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal...

Residents of St Thomas can expect a boost in garbage collection following the receipt of four new tipper trucks by Metropolitan Parks and Markets (MPM) Waste Management Limited. Public Cleansing Manager, Nigel Gooden, said that the additional units...

A St Andrew businessman who was reportedly captured on video shooting his son to death at the family business place in Papine, St Andrew, three years ago was offered $800,000 bail on humanitarian grounds. Delton Knight was arrested after he...

The Government's revenues for April to July 2024 outperformed the budget by 4.5 per cent. Addressing Friday's Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) Quarterly Press Briefing, Chairman Keith Duncan said total revenues and grants...

The High Court judge presiding over the Michaelmas Term of the St James Circuit Court this morning ordered the police to seek out jurors who have failed to report for duty. During this morning's opening ceremony, it was disclosed that 29...

The St James Family Court today dismissed the case against the 14-year-old Irwin High School student who was charged with the stabbing death of his 15-year-old schoolmate. His attorney, Maurice McCurdy, told The Gleaner that the court upheld...

Telecommunications Minister Daryl Vaz has requested a comprehensive report from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) regarding complaints received in relation to disruptions and service reliability issues with telecoms companies and Internet...

A Kingston electrician charged for defrauding US$2,100 from a St Catherine senior citizen was freed in the parish court this morning after paying back the money. Michael Campbell was charged with obtaining money by means of false pretence. When the...

A member of the disabled community who said he spent 30 minutes sitting in his wheelchair in the broiling sun before he was allowed inside the National Arena from the side entrance is urging the People's National Party (PNP) to put...

The Manchester police have charged a 21-year-old labourer in relation to a gun attack on a man while at his home in Albion district in May Day. He is Andre Williams, of Hillside district in Knockpatrick, who was charged on Saturday with murder,...

People's National Party supporters in Manchester North East are ready to see the back of veteran Jamaica Labour Party Member of Parliament, Audley Shaw, claiming that he is holding back the development of the constituency. Comrades who spoke...

A police search is now on for a suspect who chopped a 55-year-old man to death in Linstead, St Catherine last night. The deceased has been identified as Vinton Anderson, a labourer of Lemonridge district in Banbury in Linstead. It is...

Gary ‘Butch’ Hendrickson, president of the Council of Volunteer Social Services (CVSS), has called for civil society organisations (CSOs) to continue their critical work in advancing global development and social justice. Hendrickson, addressing...

Rein Paulsen, director of the FAO’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience, along with Adoniram Sanches, FAO’s Subregional Coordinator for Mesoamerica, visited Haiti last week to support the incoming FAO representative, Pierre Vauthier, in bolstering...

TOKYO (AP): A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, September 10 beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom....

Western Bureau: The perennial mould problem, which has been plaguing the more than 100-year-old Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) headquarters in the parish capital, Lucea, is seemingly acting up again. Yesterday, staffers, as well as Lucea Mayor...

With People’s National Party (PNP) supporters banking on dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel’s influence to attract the younger demographic to the party, chairman Dr Angela Brown Burke is defending his appearance on stage. Kartel, whose given name...

Former People's National Party President Dr Peter Phillips has urged the party not to seek power for its own sake, but to use the authority of government to address education inequalities, low wage jobs and landlessness.  "We don'...

As if preaching from a pulpit, PNP member Damion Crawford on Sunday whipped the party's conference crowd into a frenzy as he ripped into education minister Fayval Williams' stewardship as education minister. Using biblical references...

People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to announce parliamentary elections, claiming Jamaicans have lost confidence in the administration. He buttressed his demand on claims that Jamaicans...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has hit out at public entities that use the Data Protection Act to block media access to how they are using taxpayers' money. "I am very concerned about the insidious abuse of the Data Protection Act by State...