Many people use the new year to reflect on their relationship with alcohol. Just-released government guidelines are giving Americans another reason to consider a “dry January”. Over the past few decades, mounting scientific evidence has shown that...

The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal experience of individual clinicians toward a formal...

Members of the blind community shone brightly during the recent Joyful Hearts Outreach initiative, an event hosted by Pearnel Charles Jr, the member of parliament for South East Clarendon. The gathering brought together hundreds of constituents in...

Lawmakers have proposed a flurry of parliamentary activities this week as legislators rush to complete unfinished business before the prorogation of Parliament in February, which gives way to the start of the new legislative year. In addition to...

Starting on Monday, January 13, work is to begin to reconnect the main road from Vauxhall to Union in St Elizabeth, which has been impassable since last October when a box culvert in the community of Raheen collapsed. The box culvert which was...

The St Mary police are investigating the murder of a 59-year-old teacher whose body was found with her throat slashed at her home in Post Road, Pear Tree Grove, on Saturday. The deceased is Angella Hamilton, who was last seen leaving work on Friday...

A St Catherine man who allegedly defrauded $4,000,000 given to him for the purchase of motor cars was granted $250,000 bail with surety in the parish court on Friday. Twenty-one-year-old Malick Porter of Thompson Pen, Spanish Town, is charged with...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has expressed profound grief at the tragic deaths of three children in a house fire in Walkerswood, St Ann early this morning. Killed were siblings two-year-old Tavaughno...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says he is profoundly saddened and outraged following the tragic fire in St Ann this morning that claimed the lives of three young children. This is another incident of a similar nature in less than a week, noted...

Three children perished in a house fire in Walkerswood, St Ann, early Sunday morning. The St Ann Fire Department responded to a call about the blaze at 2:24 a.m. Julian Davis-Buckle, Assistant Commissioner of the Jamaica Fire Brigade in charge of...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and the Ministry of Education are appealing to parents and guardians to prioritise vigilance in safeguarding their children and to adopt fire safety measures at home. The call follows a series...

Some persons started the year on a happy note and are looking forward to a prosperous 2025. May their dreams come true! Contrariwise, and sadly so, some family members started the year with a “BANG!!!” and are now grieving. As the smell of the...

NEWTON’S LAW of Inertia states that an object will stay still or keep moving at the same speed, and in a straight line, unless some external force acts upon it. Negative inertia can destroy us. Many of us know we need to come to Jesus or make a...

A ST James man who was recently sentenced for beating his neighbour’s dog to death brought the topic of animal cruelty into the public eye. Across many parts of the world, animals are neglected, abused, abandoned and treated like they are not...

TOO MANY minds and hearts are being filled from the toxic spaces of social media. The crassness and crudity that abounds has overtaken the much-needed tranquility and positive vibrations that we all need so much. The popular “role models” in...

IN CHRISTENDOM, the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is celebrated on December 25, Christmas Day, which is an important holiday for devout and non-devout Christians, and some people who are not even religious. Yet, in the east African country of...

The Manchester police are investigating the death of an unidentified man after his severed head was discovered in bushes in Manningsfield in the parish on Saturday. 

The education ministry has expressed deep concern about a shooting incident near Tacius Golding High School in St Catherine on Friday afternoon, which later spilled over onto the school’s campus.

A worker and a security guard are among four persons charged in connection with the alleged theft of goods valued at over $384,000 from a hardware store on Spanish Town Road in Kingston. 

Law enforcement officials in St James and St Andrew carried out successful operations over the last 24 hours, recovering a firearm and ammunition. 

Emerson Genard Barrett, the former Mayor of Kingston who famously presented the keys to the city to Brazilian football legend Pelé, died earlier this week.  In a statement Saturday, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP...

The Golden Grove police in St Thomas on Friday took three Haitians, including an eight-year-old boy, into custody on suspicion of being in Jamaica illegally. They were found at a house around 5:30 p.m. A 41-year-old Arcadia, Lyssons man was also...

Detectives from the St Catherine North Police Division are searching for a group of gunmen who indiscriminately fired on a motor car, injuring three people along Brown's Hall main road on Friday. The vehicle they were travelling in caught fire...

The St Andrew Central police have launched an investigation into the injury of a Brazilian diplomat who was attacked by dogs on Millisborough Crescent on Friday afternoon. According to reports, the 57-year-old woman was mauled by a German...

A St Catherine-based educator who is charged with the alleged sexual molestation of a 12-year-old student is to stand trial in the Circuit Court on February 7. The matter was transferred on Friday from the St Catherine Parish Court after it was...

MBJ Airports Limited, the operator of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, is reporting that some flight operations have been cancelled or delayed due to the winter storm affecting some areas in the Unites States. Delta...

The People's National Party (PNP) has announced that Lawrence Rowe has been withdrawn as its parliamentary candidate for Central Kingston. “We thank Comrade Rowe for his service to the party and his efforts in representing the people of...

“AUTISM SPECTRUM disorder is a condition related to brain development that impacts how a person perceives and socialises with others, causing problems in social interaction and communication. The disorder also includes limited and repetitive...

THE PUBLIC is invited to join the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) at the official opening ceremony of their Exercise Event Horizon 2025, on Monday, January 13, at 9 a.m. A key feature of the opening ceremony will be a Sail and Fly Past of maritime and...

LOS ANGELES (AP): Fires raging in the Los Angeles area reduced some 10,000 structures to ash and rubble, killed at least 10, displaced thousands of others and spread over an area larger than the size of San Francisco. The blazes started Tuesday,...

As she celebrated her 85th birthday on Wednesday, stalwart entrepreneur M. Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe credited her good eating habits for sustaining her life to this moonstone year. While in her 50s and before returning to her homeland Jamaica,...

MINISTER OF Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, is encouraging local farmers to return to sugarcane production amid positive growth signals in the sector. The developments include a US$1-million investment by Pan Caribbean Sugar Company...

Kerron 'Piggy' Mason, who was wanted in connection with a series of larcenies and burglaries in St Andrew, was taken into custody today by the police after the motor car he was driving crashed and overturned along Slipe Pen Road. The police...

The National Works Agency (NWA), through contractors, will this weekend ramp up its activities to have roads in the Corporate Area, Clarendon, and Portmore, St Catherine addressed through the Government's $2-billion patching programme that...

Two foreign nationals were among four persons arrested and charged on Wednesday in relation to the seizure of a loaded gun during a traffic stop on Princess Street in downtown Kingston. Charged with breaches of the Firearms Act are 22-year-old...