PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Superior Council of the Judiciary has suspended judge Merlan Bélabre for three months following complaints relating to a case in which a minor was raped by a school principal. In a letter sent to the judge, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president Monday, promising a “revolution of common sense” and taking charge as Republicans assume unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions. He...

MASSACHUSETTS, CMC – Two Jamaican men were convicted in Massachusetts on Friday for their roles in a sophisticated international money laundering organisation that laundered more than US$6 million in drug trafficking proceeds from Colombian...

The St Catherine South police are probing the stabbing death of a woman on Sunday. She is 27-year-old Shasheda Gordon, otherwise called ‘Shabba’, a vendor of Dunbeholden in Portmore. It is reported that about 4:00 a.m., screams were heard...

There was a significant turnaround last week in murders across Jamaica, according to the latest serious crime statistics updated by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on Monday. Jamaica recorded nine murders last week – January 12-18. This is...

The St Catherine South police are yet to make an arrest or establish a motive in the shooting death of a businessman, who is also a pastor, in Old Harbour on Saturday night. Dead is 41-year-old Michael Spencer of Old Harbour Glades. Reports are...

Classes at Vauxhall High on Windward Road in Kingston were this morning disrupted following a security issue. Emergency services, including the Jamaica Fire Brigade and The Jamaica Constabulary Force, were called to the location and are carrying...

Western Bureau: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, who is also the member of Parliament for St James North West, says the newly opened Child and Adolescent Wellness Centre in St James is expected to play a primary role in crime reduction...

WESTERN BUREAU: Phillip Paulwell, the opposition spokesman on energy and climate change, says that, should the People’s National Party (PNP) form the next government, it has already developed a plan to reduce the cost of electricity by more than US...

The US Supreme Court on January 17, upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the video app by January 19, or face a nationwide ban on the app. In a unanimous decision, the court rejected TikTok’s claim that the...

United States President Joe Biden has issued a posthumous pardon for Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, nearly 101 years after his 1923 conviction for mail fraud—a case long criticised for its racial and political...

There is great potential for the use of drone technology to transform healthcare delivery as well as how we respond to natural disasters and similar incidents arising from infrastructure damage or deterioration. As a country, we are vulnerable to...

WESTERN BUREAU: Local farmers are optimistic that Jamaica’s agriculture sector will thrive if the Government follows through on its commitment to build additional cold storage facilities across the island. With plans set in motion for 2025, the...

A 41-year-old Jamaican man convicted of raping a sleeping woman has successfully avoided deportation from the United Kingdom after arguing that his bisexuality would put him at risk of harm in Jamaica and that he had been beaten by members of the...

Jamaica’s Ambassador to Washington, Audrey Marks, has accepted an invitation to participate in the 60th inauguration ceremonies, marking Donald J. Trump’s return to the presidency alongside his running mate Senator J.D. Vance. The ambassador’s...

The community of Mount Salem in Montego Bay is set to become the epicentre of a youth-driven social change initiative, powered by a timely micro grant funding from the Council of Voluntary Social Services (CVSS). The micro grants represent a...

TORONTO: The Jamaican-Canadian community has expressed mixed reaction to the unfolding political situation in Canada which saw the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which was announced at a news conference at Rideau Cottage,...

TORONTO: The chairperson of the board of Canada’s largest public transportation system says its 2025 operating and capital budget is a massive step in the right direction for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Jamaal Myers, who was elected the...

The pair of Roje Stona and Shanieka Ricketts were crowned winners of the 2024 RJRGleaner National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year this evening at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The 25-year-old Stona had a stellar year which saw him kick-...

A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a doctor who is accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients over a period of more than a decade. The patients sued Dr. Derrick Todd, who has been accused of performing unnecessary...

The Government has taken a significant step towards youth mental health services in Western Jamaica with the official opening of the St James Child and Adolescent Wellness Centre. The facility is located at the renovated Corinaldi Avenue Primary...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police at a Georgia airport arrested an airline pilot on a DUI charge as he was making pre-flight checks aboard a Southwest Airlines flight with bloodshot eyes and reeking of what smelled like alcohol, according to a police...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is questioning the motives behind an auditor general finding that his flagship housing programme for poor Jamaicans is offering duplicated services. Holness called the finding baseless and unfair. The New Social...

The woman who was on Wednesday night hit by a car while crossing the Mandela Highway in Central Village, St Catherine has succumbed to her injuries in hospital. Kemisha Thompson, 27, a cosmologist of Washington Drive in Windsor Heights in Central...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Busta Rhymes has been accused of repeatedly punching another man in the face, police said Friday. Police said Rhymes, whose legal name is Trevor Smith, was issued a desk appearance ticket for third-degree assault, a...

People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has confirmed that “discussions” were held with ousted Kingston Central caretaker Lawrence Rowe regarding the “possibility” of him being appointed to the Senate and a state board...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the Government will be moving to expand its social housing programme to assist Jamaicans who are in need to repair or partially rebuilt their homes as it seeks to improve their circumstances. The Government’s...

The police in St James on Thursday seized a mini AR15 rifle with a magazine containing nineteen 5.56 cartridges at a premises on Ducketts Road in Cambridge. Reports from the Cambridge police are that about 6:30 a.m., a team of lawmen were on...

Twenty-two-year-old Oneek Henry, otherwise called ‘CJ’, of Top Hill, Mount Carey, St James, has been charged with several offences following a shooting incident in his community on July 5, 2024. He has been charged with three counts of shooting...

People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell has confirmed that “discussions” were held with ousted Kingston Central caretaker Lawrence Rowe regarding the “possibility” of him being appointed to the Senate and a state board...

The Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC) is reporting 22 per cent progress in the implementation of the 365 recommendations contained in the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission (JETC) report. “This is up from the 20 per...

The Independent Commission of Investigations is probing an incident in which a man and a woman were shot and injured at the Ewarton Police Station in St Catherine on Thursday night. About 7:57 p.m., a member of the police team was reportedly...

Thirty-five-year-old Peter Walters was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment for his wife's murder and must serve 18 years and five months behind bars before he becomes eligible to apply for parole. On June 19, 2023, he pleaded guilty to...

HARTFORD, Jan 17, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has arrested two Jamaican nationals convicted of criminal offences in the US, including one wanted in Jamaica. ICE said they had arrested Sanjay...

WESTERN BUREAU: The traffic accident case involving Hanover Custos Dr David Stair and senior justice of the peace Alvin Jackson, which was expected to be transferred to either the Westmoreland Parish Court or the St James Parish Court due to the...