NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed to stay in office today after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and business people buy his influence with illegal campaign contributions...

The Constant Spring police are investigating the fatal shooting of a teenager in Grants Pen, St Andrew, last night. The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Malike Brown, an unemployed resident of Shortwood Lane, Kingston 8. About 8:30 p.m.,...

The anticipated committal hearing for Shamoya Green, the woman accused of throwing her baby daughter off a rooftop to her death last December, has been rescheduled to September 30 in the St James Parish Court. Presiding parish judge Natiesha...

The East Kingston police have launched an investigation into a suspected drowning at Breezy Castle, Kingston. The deceased has been identified as 31-year-old Michael Alvaranga, also known as 'John Crow,' an unemployed resident of 18 Fleet...

House Democrats attempted Wednesday to quickly censure a Republican congressman who slandered Haitian immigrants in a post he made on social media, but GOP leadership stamped out the effort. Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana described...

Portland Businessman Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald and Oscar Barnes, the man who murdered McDonald's wife, were both sentenced to life in prison and will each have to serve 28 years and 11 months before being eligible for parole. The...

WESTERN BUREAU: David Pryce, regional manager for the National Water Commission in Hanover, says the company will be undertaking corrective measures to address the concerns of residents of Pond Piece in Hopewell, Hanover, who are distressed about...

The nine-member school team representing Jamaica at this year’s Robotics Olympics was set to arrive in Greece yesterday for the start of the competition today. The team comprises five students, two coaches, one additional student and one additional...

Excelsior Community College (ECC) commenced its 50th anniversary celebrations with a special Thanksgiving Church Service on Sunday, September 22, at the Vineyard Town Methodist Church. On Monday, the college officially launched its year-long...

WESTERN BUREAU: Denese Adams, the vendor who was caught in a viral video urinating into a container and then pouring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, made her first appearance in the St James Parish Court...

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents in proximity to the Falmouth Hospital and surrounding communities in Trelawny will now have access to diagnostic services thanks to an arrangement that was recently signed between Omega Medical Services and the Western...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will resume the transportation of Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) students to the campus. Making the announcement at yesterday's sitting of the House of Representatives, Minister of Science, Energy,...

Denese Adams, the vendor who was caught in a viral video urinating into a container and then pouring it into a bottle at the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, has pleaded not guilty to breaching the Public Health Food Handling Regulations...

The first ever infant nursery established for incarcerated expectant mothers was formally opened at the South Camp Adult Correctional Centre in St Andrew on Tuesday. The facility, built at a cost of more than $13 million, comprises three rooms...

Over 630 hectares or 1,557 acres of farmland have been replanted with seeds to replenish agricultural stock destroyed by Hurricane Beryl in July, Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green has disclosed. The crops replanted include cabbage, tomato,...

The school community at Vere Technical High in Clarendon is mourning the tragic loss of first-form student 11-year-old Marla Richards who succumbed to injuries after being struck by a bus in Kemps Hill district in the parish yesterday. Reports from...

The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) has announced a partnership to establish a campus in Suriname. This collaboration with the Maritime Authority of Suriname (MAS) and Suriname Foundation for Logistics Training (FLT) aims to bring world-class...

The community of Rose Gardens came alive on the weekend with the kick-off of a street football tournament. With support from the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Project STAR, Member of Parliament for Kingston Central Donovan Williams and other local...

Disgruntled workers at the Hope Botanic Gardens in St Andrew returned to their posts following a brief industrial action on Tuesday morning after intervention from the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Workers Union, which represents the...

LAWSON JOHN CRAWFORD, born October 6, 1973 to Vivian Crawford, former executive director of the Institute of Jamaica, and his wife, Carva, made his transition on July 6, 2024 in London, England. He also predeceased his sister, Sheena. The attorney-...

WESTERN BUREAU: Unrest is brewing at Hopewell High in Hanover as many teachers and students have seemingly abandoned the institution since the return of Principal Byron Grant last Friday. Grant had been absent from the school since the December...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says the child seen in an expletive-laced video being verbally abused by her mother has been placed with a next of kin while the agency takes steps to have the matter brought before the court...

A man who was held with a quantity of cocaine and ganja during a traffic stop in Manchester in July on Monday pleaded guilty and was fined in parish court. Mahlon Davis, 38, of Ewarton, St Catherine was convicted of breaches of the Dangerous Drugs...

The operator of a beauty supply store in Spanish Town, St Catherine was today fined a total of $2.6 million in the parish court for selling counterfeit bleaching products. Forty-year-old businessman Zhijia Zeng was fined $650,000 or six months...

Chairman of the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee Edmund Bartlett says it would be redundant for the parliamentary body to give approval to a motion calling for the report of the Integrity Commission into the statutory declarations of Prime...

Amid today's guilty plea by the woman charged for the stabbing death of eight-year-old schoolgirl Danielle Rowe, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says as a society Jamaicans should stand against attacks on the nation's children. Kayodi...

The Judicial Review Court has refused to grant an order and declarations for Tenroy Durrant, a former police constable who was dismissed from the force in February 2021, to be reinstated. Justice Sonya Wint-Blair ruled that Durrant had failed...

A Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine businessman was on Monday charged for allegedly defrauding his pregnant girlfriend out of $450,000 that was intended for the woman to use to open a place of business. Thirty-three-year-old Charles Brown is...

Dental assistant Kayodi Satchell has pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of eight-year-old Danielle Rowe in June last year, a murder that sparked national outrage. Satchel was also convicted of child stealing for taking Danielle from Braeton...

Three men charged with the murder of 34-year-old security guard Lanz Hutchinson in Old Harbour Bay last year were further remanded when they appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court today. The accused are Sheldon Brown, otherwise called '...

The police in St Elizabeth on Monday seized 250 pounds of ganja during an operation in Pedro Plains. Four men are being sought in connection with the seizure. The police report that about 3:00 p.m., a team conducted a snap operation in the...

Government lawmakers on the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC) a short while ago voted against a motion moved by Opposition legislator Julian Robinson during a meeting of the committee. The motion calls for the Integrity Commission...

Staff at the Hope Botanical Gardens in St Andrew have locked the gates to the attraction as they stage a protest along Old Hope Road over the cutting of the wages of some workers and what they say is the disregard by management. About 20 placard-...

LONDON: The funeral of a Jamaican entrepreneur who became somewhat of a legend in Manchester, England, for selling his home-brewed ginger beer is expected to attract approximately 500 mourners. George Powell, who lived in Moss Side and Old Trafford...

CUSTOS ROTULORUM for Clarendon, Edith Chin, on Friday, handed over one of two retrofitted container houses, developed under an initiative she spearheads, to a family residing in Rocky Point in the parish who lost their possessions during Hurricane...