SEVEN VOLATILE communities across Jamaica are set to benefit from a six-year United Kingdom (UK)-Jamaica Violence Prevention Partnership Programme. Grant funding from the UK government to the tune of £15 million will be used to support the...

AINSWORTH HIGGINS, better known as ‘Big A’, has been a fixture on Jamaica’s airwaves for close to three and half decades, serving as a broadcaster at IRIE FM in Ocho Rios, St Ann. For his lifelong commitment to the Jamaican music scene, the...

TAVIA SUTHERLAND wanted to become a geoscience engineer. While attending high school, she started an engineering club, but God seemingly had different plans for her life. She always knew that she had the ability to teach and her friends would often...

WHEN JAMAICAN police personnel and members of the Royal Hampshire Regiment (RHR) went to raid a Rasta Camp at Red Hills in St Andrew on Tuesday, June 21, 1960, they did not go on a whim. The operation took place after a weekend of planning because...

Motorists will pay more for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move up by $0.25 to sell for $167.09 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go up by $0.25 to sell for $176.11....

A flash flood watch is in effect for Jamaica's southern parishes as a tropical system brings heavy rain and thunderstorms.

Some 243,000 Jamaicans have been approved for the Government's Reverse Income Tax Credit. This financial initiative is designed to assist persons earning below $3 million annually, who meet the specific criteria, to receive a one-off $20,000...

A multimillion-dollar state-of-the-art Old Harbour Comprehensive Health Centre is to be constructed in St Catherine. Ground was broken this morning for the 2,000 sq. ft. health facility which is being funded by the Government and international...

Former head of the Independent Commission of Investigations attorney-at-law Terrence Williams who was recently appointed King's Counsel says he is looking forward to giving more service in the areas of human rights and public law....

General Manager of Independence Park Limited, Major Desmon Brown, is seeking to assuring the public that parking facilities provided by the entity at the National Stadium are secure. In a release today, Brown said that the vehicles allegedly...

A multimillion-dollar state-of-the-art Old Harbour Comprehensive Health Centre is to constructed in St Catherine. Ground was broken this morning for the 2,000 sq. ft. health facility which is being funded by the Government and international...

The Integrity Commission has hit back at Government Member of Parliament Everald Warmington who yesterday raised questions about the financial affairs of the anti-corruption body and called for an audit to be done before Parliament approves any...

Residents of Brown's Town in St Ann are the latest to enjoy enhanced connectivity through the Universal Service Fund (USF) Connect Ja Public Wi-Fi programme. The free service, launched on October 11, builds on the USF's previous efforts in...

Convicted killer Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald is to return to the Home Circuit Court on February 5 of next year for a plea and case management hearing in connection with the alleged murder of his first wife. The 70 year-old businessman is...

Five men, including a 72-year-old, implicated in the almost $12-billion cocaine bust in Havendale, St Andrew in August, are expected to apply for bail when their case is mentioned on November 11 in the Home Circuit Court. The defendants, Kingston...

Today, SOS Children’s Villages Canada announced the launch of YouthRISE, a three-year project with a goal to reach some of the most disadvantaged young people in Jamaica and Mexico, enabled by funding from Scotiabank’s ScotiaRISE initiative....

THE HIGH Commission of India (Kingston) and AllKare Wellness Foundation will host their annual New Kingston Health Fair on Sunday, October 20, at the Victoria Mutual Group Parking Lot, St Lucia Avenue in New Kingston. According to Leroy Dallas,...

AN ALL-NIGHT vigil and search for the five men suspected of shooting four privates of the Royal Hampshire Regiment who went with local police personnel to raid a Rasta camp in Red Hills, St Andrew on Tuesday, June 22, 1960 was futile. The...

People's National Party Member of Parliament for Manchester North Western Mikael Phillips could be facing court regarding is 2022 statutory declaration. A report by the Integrity Commission, which was tabled in Parliament today, indicated that...

President of the Senate, Tom Tavares-Finson, is strongly rebuking Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Retired Justice Seymour Panton, for suggesting that reports from the Integrity Commission might have leaked into the public...

The police are reporting that two people were arrested early Tuesday morning in Caribbean Estate in Portmore, St Catherine during an intelligence-led operation targeting suspected lottery scamming activities. In custody are a 32-year-old man who is...

The police are appealing to motorists who had their cars broken into or stolen at last night's football match at the National Stadium to come forward and make a report. A viral video showing several cars with damaged windows has been making the...

Members of the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee of Parliament and the leadership of the anti-corruption body on Tuesday debated whether a declarant who is being investigated by the entity can go public about the probe or is restricted by...

The taxi driver who was seen on video damaging a Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus has been taken into custody. The police say he was apprehended today during an operation to nab him. They say the owner of the taxi came forward on Monday and he was...

The Government has commenced the transitioning of workers at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and its four regional branches into 3,813 new permanent positions. The transition exercise, which includes drivers, sanitation...

The bus park at Nelson Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, has been cordoned off as investigators probe a police shooting incident at the location.  Buses are being rerouted and pedestrian traffic has been curtailed.  The...

Three policemen who were charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act were freed in the St Catherine Parish Court on Monday after the prosecution conceded that it could not mount a successful case against them....

AS PART of a global push towards the growth of the creative economy and cultural district revitalisation, Kingston Creative has partnered with key stakeholders to spearhead the transformation of downtown Kingston. This placemaking initiative aims...

WESTERN BUREAU: Amorkard Brown, the councillor for the Leamington division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), says there are approximately 300 people in his division living in substandard housing conditions. “I may be able to...

Western Bureau: Dr Kaushal Singh, the medical officer of health for Hanover, says he is concerned about the high rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the parish, describing the situation as a ‘silent epidemic’. “We are going through a silent...

SuperClubs Resorts Chairman John Issa has been named a member of The Bahamas Order of Excellence by Bahamas Governor General Dame Cynthia Pratt and Prime Minister Philip Davis, in recognition of his exemplary service and friendship to the...

FROM THE very beginning, there was opposition to the rise of the Jamaican folk religion now known as Rastafarianism and its founder, Leonard Howard, who established a camp near Sligoville in St Catherine. The camp was called The Pinnacle because it...

Unstable weather associated with a tropical wave currently across Hispaniola is expected to affect Jamaica on Tuesday, noted the Meteorological Service of Jamaica. The tropical wave is expected to merge with a developing area of low pressure...

Nineteen-year-old Rohan Davis of Cherrington Road, Kingston 2, who was charged with the murder of a man on Yellow Sea Drive, Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11 on Thursday, April 6, 2023, was sentenced to life imprisonment when he appeared before the...

Lawmaker Juliet Holness' company, JAJ Development and Holdings Limited, and marketing consultant Charlene Ashley are again attempting to settle their bitter dispute over land in St Andrew.  A court trial, which started in May 2023 and last...