Former junior foreign minister Leslie Campbell, who is charged with failing to provide information about his income declaration, is to know his fate on December 12. Parish Judge Paula Blake Powell gave the date following today's completion of the trial in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says its recent purchase of a billion-dollar property in St Andrew is to relocate some its operations as part of a strategy to boost the bank's ability to respond to potential disruptions.

A man is in custody after police seized two firearms in operations conducted by the Area 5 Fugitive Apprehension Team in Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine, on Thursday. 

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in Cassava Piece, St Andrew. The measure took effect at 6 p.m. on Friday, and will end at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a 2024 trial from outside jail.

A 56-year-old St Catherine man has been charged after allegedly collecting approximately $2.2 million from victims in a job scam. Phillip Panton is charged with obtaining money by false pretense and conspiracy to defraud.

An application is to be made in the Supreme Court to amend the lawsuit filed by Corporal Rohan James, the former chairman of the Police Federation who has been on interdiction since July 2023, to add the attorney general (AG) as a respondent. James...

Jamaicans are being urged not to swim or bathe in stagnant water following the recent passage of Tropical Storm Rafael. Health Education and Promotion Officer at the Westmoreland Health Department, Gerald Miller, said playing in or swimming in...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of ammunition following the seizure of two illegal guns and more than 20 rounds of ammunition in Portmore on Thursday. The arrest was made after...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of ammunition following the seizure of two illegal guns and more than 20 rounds of ammunition in Portmore on Thursday. The arrest was made after...

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...

IN AN act of community support, students of Franklin Town Primary School have been given a fresh start with the refurbishment of their school library, which had been unusable since a devastating fire in October 2023. This initiative, part of CIBC...

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...