The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, in collaboration with the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), on Friday, launched National Parent Month 2024 under the theme: 'Surf Beyond the Surface'. This theme focuses...

A man who was severely beaten by a group of men in St Ann has died in hospital. Dead is Shawn Geminson, otherwise called 'Shanty', a 48-year-old singer of Eltham in Ocho Rios. Reports are that about 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 30,...

For the second time in a week, the St James police are imposing a 48-hour curfew in the Mount Salem Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) in response to escalating violence in the area. The curfew, which starts at 8:00 p.m. Friday and ends at 8:00 p.m...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says he will be making a comprehensive submission to Cabinet aimed at bolstering solid waste management initiatives in the country. “I am now preparing a submission to...

Effective Saturday, November 2, the National Works Agency (NWA) will implement temporary traffic changes along sections of the Bogue Road in St James as China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Limited ramps up activities to complete the Montego...

Large boulders are now blocking a section of the Junction main road in St Andrew. The boulders are a part of a massive landslide which occurred this morning. This has left the roadway at Toms River impassable. A part of the hillside came tumbling...

The Ministry of Agriculture is reporting that the fruits and vegetables market has shown signs of stabilising, with prices coming down. According to the Ministry, the market recorded a reduction of approximately 17% in October. Of the 31 fruit and...

Two men who were allegedly found in possession of a motor car which was reported stolen were today each granted $500,000 bail in the St Catherine Parish Court. The accused, Dane Allen and Nackay Sterling, of Linstead in the parish, were ordered by...

WESTERN BUREAU: Two British women charged for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the island were offered bail in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday. Teraiya Stapleton and Genevieve Sanoussi, both 21-year-old university students, reportedly had...

Single-lance access was restored to the Junction main road in St Mary on Thursday as work crews from the National Works Agency (NWA) sought to clear the thoroughfare after two massive landslides on Wednesday. Sections of the Broadgate and Mason...

THE MINISTRY of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, in collaboration with the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), will launch National Parent Month 2024 today, under the theme, ‘Surf Beyond the Surface’. The theme focuses on...

The Aural, Read, Respond, Oral, Write (ARROW) Literacy Software Training, provided under the UK/Jamaica Violence Prevention Partnership Programme (VPPP), is the first activity under the programme now in active implementation. The opening ceremony...

MANY ROAD users have been maimed physically and ruined financially as a result of alcohol and drug use, says Director General of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Colonel Daniel Pryce. Delivering the keynote address at a forum on the effects of...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has charged Minister of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, to accelerate work to get piped, potable water into the homes of more Jamaicans. “That is what we have to meet for the people of Jamaica...

NCB Chairman Michael Lee-Chin and his team met with Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas today to discuss a groundbreaking partnership for Portmore's development, with a particular focus on nuclear energy expansion. Lee-Chin highlighted nuclear energy as...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced today will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is rejecting concerns raised by the People's National Party (PNP) about Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert's expected candidacy in the upcoming by-election in Trelawny Southern. In a media release on Thursday...

The St Catherine South police suspect foul play in the death of a woman who was found at a house in Portmore early this morning. Dead is 22-year-old Beyonce Brown, of Dawn Avenue in Duhaney Park, St Andrew. Reports are that about 1:30 a.m.,...

Police personnel are now searching for a man facing sentencing for gun possession who fled the Supreme Court building in downtown Kingston this morning. Being sought is Anthony Williams who is from Allman Town in Kingston. It is reported that...

The man who escaped custody today in downtown Kingston was sentenced to 18 years in prison in his absence. Anthony Williams, otherwise called Pops, of an Allman Town, Kingston address, was recently found guilty of illegal possession of firearm and...

A mentally ill man was shot by the police in Stony Hill Square, St Andrew this morning. He was shot after reportedly attacking one of the cops, who sustained injuries. It is reported a police team went to the area to apprehend the man in relation...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will this morning resume work to clear sections of the main road in Junction, St Mary which are being impacted by two major landslides that were caused by persistent heavy rains. Yesterday, a NWA crew worked...

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) is expressing concern over the decision of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to have Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert as its candidate for the Trelawny Southern by-election amid integrity issues....

Face-to-face classes have been suspended at Baxter's Mountain Primary School in St Mary due to a flooded roadway. Heavy rains, which have been ongoing since last Friday, forced the abandonment of in-person classes on Monday and Tuesday,...

Several Clarendon farmers have benefited from $1.5 million worth of agricultural inputs from the Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (JBML). The items, which include farm tools, protective gear, productivity enhancers, insecticides, pesticides and...

THE JAMAICA Fire Brigade (JFB) has donated smoke detectors and fire extinguishers to two children’s homes in St Andrew. Mary’s Child, a programme under the Mustard Seed Communities, received 26 smoke detectors and two fire extinguishers, while the...

AFTER LOSING her home to fire two years ago, Marsha Davis of Seaforth, St Thomas, now has a new home, thanks to the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development’s Indigent Housing Programme. The ministry, in fulfilling a commitment made...

WESTERN BUREAU: The three police officers, who were arrested and charged in connection with the 2014 beating death of St James resident Mario Deane, are slated to appear in the St James Circuit Court on November 11 to answer to the charges against...

FAMILY AND friends of Madame Justice Chantal Ononaiwu wore bright smiles as she was sworn in as the second Jamaican judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), at King’s House, on Tuesday. Her mother, Arlene Ononaiwu, said that it was a proud...

AT THE time of the Morant Bay Uprising in 1865, Edward John Eyre, the British colonial governor, was in charge of the administration of the colony, in which there were dissenting voices, much discontent among the laity and in the Assembly over the...

National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCBJ) says it has temporarily frozen approximately 300 accounts due to «unusually» high volumes and types of  transactions for Uber transport services.

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is alerting the public about a misleading social media post using its logo to falsely advertise an «Employment Recruitment Drive» promising daily wages.

Two men accused of using a firearm to assault a woman in a dispute over electricity were freed of gun charges in the Gun Court on Tuesday. 

The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) has identified a site for the establishment of the country’s fourth international airport, which is to be located in Negril, Westmoreland.

Newly appointed Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dana Morris Dixon, has pledged to «unlock the potential of every child impacted by the ministry’s institutions,» with a focus on early childhood development.