The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is encouraging responsible disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) to reduce the harmful effects of these items on public health and the environment. E-waste is anything with plugs, cords and...

Sections of Airy Castle Road, Brooks Level Road, and Stony Hill in St Andrew are under curfew. The security measure began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18 and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 20. The boundaries of the...

Minister of Transport Daryl Vaz has joined renewed calls for farmers to take the necessary precautions to secure their livestock amid a recent fatal collision involving a stray cow in Clarendon that claimed the life of a man. The incident happened...

The St Catherine South police are searching for men who on Friday held up and robbed a security guard of his gun along the main road in Bernard Lodge in Portmore. It is reported that 5:36 p.m. the guard was pounced upon by men on a motorcycle who...

WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says plans are in place to enhance healthcare services in St James, as, in addition to 11 local health centres that have been fully upgraded since 2019, another 11 are now being renovated....

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT Jamaica’s programmes help to prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs that make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial...

THE MAROON community in Jamaica, and more so the Charles Town Maroon village in Portland, was hurled into deep mourning on the morning of Wednesday, October 16 when Colonel Marcia Douglas died suddenly. She was 48 years old. Colonel Douglas, who...

Reach Academy’s robotics team, ‘The Crud Busters’, has achieved a historic milestone by earning first place in the Innovators section at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) held this year in Brescia, Italy. Competing against 47 countries, including...

Three years ago, after dog lover Deandra Boyd heard a contractor working inside her house mention that he had tried to kill his cancer-stricken dog, Bandie, she sprang into action and asked to see the dog. At the time, Bandie was suffering from...

Bradley Robinson, the principal of John Mills All Age School in St Andrew, who was facing a pornography charge for the last nine years was today freed in the Home Circuit Court because of a breach of his constitutional right. The prosecution...

Due to inclement weather, the venue for this year's Ceremony of Investiture and Presentation of National Honours and Awards has been changed to the National Indoor Sports Centre in St Andrew. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. and...

The three men charged in connection with the murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl Jamila Cole were further remanded when they appeared in the Trelawny Parish Court today.  Presiding judge Paula Archer-Hall was again told that files in the case are...

The first leg of Prime Minister Andrew Holness' bid to have an Integrity Commission report on his financial affairs invalidated is set for November 7 in the Supreme Court.

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of the communities of Geneva, Top Lincoln, Kings Valley, Bell Isle Road and Crowder in Grange Hill, Westmoreland. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 18 and will remain in effect until 6:00...

A man was fatally shot by police in Frazer's Content, St Catherine, after he allegedly pulled a gun on a joint police and military team on Thursday night. 

The National Works Agency (NWA) has restarted its road repair efforts across Kingston, St Catherine, and St Thomas through a patching programme valued at $236 million.

A man has been arrested following the seizure of a firearm during a police operation on Seivwright Drive in St. Andrew on Wednesday.

The Clarendon police have charged two men in connection with a house breaking and larceny incident that occurred in Hartwell Gardens, May Pen, on October 15.

Jamaican Alando 'Tight Pants' Gentles was extradited to the United States (US) on Thursday to face criminal charges related to the deadly lottery scam.

ST GEORGE’S College’s GreenCycle Solutions took first place in the Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) Programme, spearheaded by Junior Achievement Jamaica, in their bid to educate students about work readiness, entrepreneurship and...

GROWING UP in a family of entrepreneurs undoubtedly influenced the life choices of group executive chairman of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), Dr Winston Adams, ultimately leading him to a career in educational entrepreneurship...

IT WAS an ordinary day at work for Lyttleton ‘Tanny’ Shirley when he received news that would forever change his life. He received a call from Ambassador Sandra Grant Griffiths notifying him that he is to receive the Order of Jamaica (OJ) for his...

WITH AN infectious spirit and inspirational passion for service, Kedesha Campbell Rochester leaves a lasting first impression on those afforded the good fortune of meeting her. Rochester, who heads the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Management...

THE HUNT for the four fugitives wanted for the murder of two infantrymen of the Royal Hampshire Regiment took a gruesome turn on Saturday, June 25, 1960, when the body of three Rastafarians were found buried in one grave, near where the Rastafarian...

Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, says the Government continues to prioritise disaster risk financing to strengthen Jamaica's ability to respond to and recover from natural disasters. He said these financial measures will enable the Government...

The Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) is reminding borrowers that there is an incentive for maintaining a high grade point average (GPA) during their period of study. Manager of the SLB's Loan Servicing Department, Cheryl Surjue, said that...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke, is urging ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to exercise prudent management of overtime budgets. Addressing the Standing Finance Committee reviewing the First Supplementary...

A St Catherine man has been charged with false imprisonment for tying up his ex-girlfriend and leaving her inside his house for hours after she ended the relationship. He is 26-year-old Nevarro Daley, self-employed, of Eltham Park, Spanish...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for killing a pregnant Arkansas woman and trying to pass off the dead woman's baby as her own stillborn child. Amber Waterman, 44, of Pineville,...

A man was last night gunned down in Portmore Pines, Portmore, St Catherine. Killed was 24-year-old Bjorn Moore, of a St James address, who was employed by courier company Beryllium as a security guard. No motive has been established in Moore...

The Ministry of Finance on Friday morning published the information gathered during the public hearings conducted by the FINSAC Commission, which was established to ascertain activities that led to the collapse of Jamaica's financial sector in...

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...