PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian activists today demanded that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their country due to a surge in gang violence and deepening poverty. Tens of thousands of people have been deported to Haiti...

Twenty-nine-year-old Akeem Scott, labourer of Stony Hill, St Andrew, has been charged with robbery with aggravation, simple larceny, unlawful wounding, being armed with an offensive weapon and resisting arrest following an incident in the parish on...

Simple larceny and malicious destruction of property are the charges that were laid upon 48-year-old Gary Robinson, a labourer of Warwick district in Manchester, following an incident at a business place in Mandeville, Manchester on Monday,...

The police are advising members of the public that a section of Mona Road in St Andrew is impassable. The area is inundated with water due to the inclement weather. Motorists are being advised to use alternative routes where possible. Further...

The St Ann police are investigating the death of a pedal cyclist who allegedly slammed into a parked truck on Wednesday night. He has been identified only as 'Samson'. The police say about 9:30 p.m., Samson was riding a bicycle...

The police have retrieved the bodies of  the two people who were swept away in a vehicle on Tuesday afternoon during heavy rain in Worthy Park, St Catherine. The victims have been identified as Junior Gooden and Terrica Green. The...

American businesswoman Cheryl Hammersmith-Stewart, the common-law widow of late hotelier Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, is seeking court orders for attorney-at-law Rachel Yvonne McLarty and executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International,...

In a move being described by Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett as the 'European Push', Jamaica is set to welcome a new flight out of Europe, World2Fly from Lisbon, Portugal, to Montego Bay. The airline is set to begin operating that...

Three alleged gunmen were killed on Wednesday afternoon in a reported shootout with police along the Mosquito Cove main road in Hanover. The  Jamaica Constabulary Force's Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) says about 5:35 p...

Traffic is being diverted off the PJ Patterson Highway following the collision of two trucks near the Toll Gate exit in Clarendon. The police say the collision resulted in the roadway being completely blocked with goods and building materials...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) says it is yet to locate two missing fishermen after nine days of searching. The Maritime, Air and Cyber Command of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is conducting search and rescue operations for the men since...

Father Sean Major-Campbell, a priest of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and The Cayman Islands, is calling for members of the clergy to confess their use of mistranslated versions of the Bible to promote homophobia, misogyny, stigma, discrimination...

AFTER YEARS of frustration, the British colonisers signed treaties of peace and friendship with the Maroons, in 1738 with the Leeward Maroons of western Jamaica, and the Windward Maroons of eastern Jamaica in 1739. The treaty in the west was signed...

A Westmoreland man has been charged with murder after he allegedly used a machete to chop a woman, reportedly intoxicated, who was hitting his car with stones outside his home on Sunday.

A police constable died this evening after his private motor car reportedly collided with a Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus in the 2 East community of Greater Portmore, St Catherine.

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday as a powerful category 3 hurricane, plowing across the western part of the island shortly after powerful winds knocked out the country’s power grid.

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says preliminary figures indicate that the damage caused by Tropical Storm Rafael could range between $500 million and $1 billion. “Our figures are preliminary; by the end of the day, we will have more...

The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Suzette Barton and Delroy Dawson of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) will face off in a by-election for the Aenon Town Division that could decide control of the Clarendon Municipal Corporation. 

Motorists will pay 25 cents more for gas when they go to the pumps on Thursday.

The police have issued a high alert for 28-year-old Trudy-Ann Reid and her two-year-old daughter Amelia Morgan, who have been missing since October 6. The mother and child are from Windsor Drive, Spanish Town in St Catherine. 

The Jamaica Public Service says approximately 10,000 customers are still without electricity following Tropical Storm Rafael, though it has restored power to most of those affected. 

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor candidate for the Morant Bay division in St Thomas, Winston Downie, has promised he will be «working with the people and for the people» as he was nominated on Wednesday to contest the ...

People's National Party (PNP) candidate for the Morant Bay division of St Thomas, Rosemarie Shaw, is seeking to regain the division she originally lost to the late Rohan Bryan, with her nomination for the November 22 by-...

US Vice President Kamala Harris called President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on his election victory. Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president...

Declaring that it is his time now, Duane Smith was on Wednesday afternoon nominated as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate to contest the St Andrew North Western by-election on November 22. Smith, the councillor for the Chancery Hall...

The St Catherine North police are currently searching near Worthy Park in the parish for the occupants of a pickup which was swept away on Tuesday during heavy rains. Reports suggest that a man and a woman were washed away in the...

Two independent candidates were Wednesday morning nominated to contest the St Andrew North Western by-election. The two, Carl Marshall and Rohan Banks, were nominated just after 10 a.m. at the Pembroke Hall Restorative Justice Centre. Banks...

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is lauding the security forces for their efforts in significantly reducing major crimes across the island.  Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing Wednesday morning, Chang said major crimes in...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor candidate for the Morant Bay division in St Thomas, Winston Downie, has promised he will be «working with the people and for the people» as he was nominated on Wednesday to contest the ...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has congratulated Donald Trump on securing victory in Tuesday's presidential election in the US. "Jamaica remains committed to strengthening our close and enduring partnership with the United States...

WESTERN BUREAU: Except for bouts of showers throughout Tuesday, it was almost a normal day in St James as Tropical Storm Rafael passed the island. Several tourists were out on the popular Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in downtown Montego Bay, seemingly...

Manchester and St Elizabeth reported no flooding or any major incident arising from the passage of Tropical Storm Rafael yesterday. At the same time, things were also rather calm in St Mary, according to Port Maria Mayor Fitzroy Wilson. He told The...