The St Catherine South police are searching for gunmen who shot and injured a police sergeant at his home on Thursday night. About 9:50 p.m., the police sergeant had just arrived at his home in Portmore, St Catherine, when he was pounced upon...

The HEART/NSTA Trust will be spearheading a series of activities for Youth Month, being observed throughout November. Managing Director Dr Taneisha Ingleton provided details during Wednesday’s post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. The...

WESTERN BUREAU: BRITISH NATIONAL Rachael Quayle, who was arrested on August 21 after she was allegedly caught trying to smuggle cocaine valued at $45 million inside assorted food items, had her bail extended to November 20 when she appeared in the...

MORE THAN 100 students from high schools islandwide gathered at the Caenwood Centre Auditorium in Kingston on November 1 for the National Child Month Committee (NCMC) annual youth forum. This year’s staging provided a platform for students to...

IN THE late 1800s, Falmouth was still a very important and busy shipping port, as mercantilism was one of the things that poked the development of that northwestern town, which replaced Martha Brae about 1790 as the capital of Trelawny, named after...

TeenTechJa will be hosting its highly anticipated annual conference at Wolmer's Boys School in Kingston, on Friday, November 8, under the theme 'The Future is Here! We Are Ready!'. The event, scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m., will...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff. Wiles is widely credited within and outside Trump's inner circle for running what was, by far...

Jamaica-born Brooklyn-based pastor, Reverend Edward-Richard Hinds, has been arrested by New York police on sex crime charges. The charges, unsealed in the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, accuse Hinds of third degree rape and having sex with an...

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in sections of Lucea, Hanover. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. today and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 9. The boundaries of the curfew are: North: From the rear of the Johnson Town...

Gunmen reportedly robbed a homeowner of an undisclosed sum of money and a motor vehicle in Buff Bay, West Portland, earlier today. According to preliminary reports, around 6:45 p.m., three men, armed with handguns, broke into a home under the cover...

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...

A Westmoreland businessman has been charged with murder after he allegedly used a machete to chop a woman in her head during a dispute. He is 42-year-old Dewayne Anglin, of Truro district, Frome, Westmoreland. The police say Anglin and 29...

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.