Forty-eight-hour curfews have been imposed in sections of Mandeville and Porus in the Manchester police division. The curfew began in Mandeville began at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday and will remain in effect until 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, while in...

The Ministry of Education is advising that schools in Spanish Town, St Catherine, may reopen for face-to-face classes on Friday, but says administrators should make the decision based on local security assessments. In a media release late...

WESTEN BUREAU: Montego Bay’s drive to address climate resilience and youth empowerment has received a significant boost with Bloomberg Philanthropies doubling their funding for the city’s Youth Climate Action Fund to J$16 million. This comes a year...

“THE UWI has a moral duty to facilitate not just resilience, but the opportunity for the Jamaica Maroons to thrive, and that is exactly what we will do,” Professor Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), told...

The Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), in partnership with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), proudly announces the launch of the ‘Comm-Unity Resilience and Transformation’ (CREATE) Project, a groundbreaking US$2 million initiative...

WELCOME TO 2025! As we embrace the new year, consider adding travel to your list of plans. Travelling can be one of the most enriching experiences of your life, and it is never too late to explore new destinations. Whether you are looking for...

WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Janice Allen, the People’s National Party (PNP) caretaker candidate for St James Central, has got high marks for a recent town hall meeting she staged, which focused on the high cost of electric energy and her party’s plan...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) will conduct a Mass Casualty Incident Response Exercise today as part of the activities under its ongoing Exercise Event Horizon 2025. The simulation exercise, which involves collaboration with regional and...

MARCUS GARVEY travelled to the United States in 1916 while World War 1 was raging in Europe. Upon arriving at the port in New York on March 24, he headed straight for Harlem. With limited funds, he moved in with a Jamaican family, and found work as...

WESTERN BUREAU: Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the establishment of the Red Stripe Experience at Rick’s Café in Negril, Westmoreland, will generate an estimated US$1.5 million in earnings annually and provide approximately 150 new direct...

EAST PORTLAND: Titchfield High School in Eastern Portland has received a donation of US$43,000 (approximately J$6.8 million) from the Alumni Association South Florida Chapter as part of its contribution towards education and the well-being of...

WESTERN BUREAU: In a ground-breaking move to embrace digital transformation in education, The Heinz Simonitsch School (HSS) in Montego Bay has announced a dynamic partnership with The Learning Hub, a leader in digital learning solutions. This...

With a seven-day period low of nine murders during the week of Christmas, and a high of 44 during one week in November, Jamaica’s homicide numbers in 2024 averaged 22 murders per week throughout the year, leading to a reduction in homicides by 252...

Born in Jamaica in the seaside town of St Ann’s Bay on the north coast on August 17, 1887, Malcus Mosiah Garvey subsequently changed his first name to Marcus. He was born in a humble board house at 32 Market Street which was destroyed by a...

IF YOU are seeking a competitive edge in today’s business landscape, investing in tailored corporate training for leaders and their teams is a strategic imperative. This tailored approach offers a myriad of advantages, helping both individuals and...

DONOVAN GAYLE never imagined his life would take a turn from the buzzing clippers of a barbershop to caring for the disabled throughout the halls of Sophie’s Place Orphanage in Gordon Town, St Andrew. What began as a temporary job to make ends...

FARMING HAS the power to drive economic growth, secure food supplies, and create generational wealth. Recognising this potential, the Desnoes...

The failure of several municipal corporations to submit financial statements with audit evidence, and other records to support transactions and account balances in the handling of billions of taxpayers’ money, has resulted in Auditor General Pamela...

WESTERN BUREAU: Rachael Quayle, the British woman who was allegedly held with $45 million worth of cocaine inside assorted food items at Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport last August, will go on trial in the St James Parish Court on...

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...

Thirty-one-year-old Mikey Hoilett, a lifeguard of Mile End, Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been charged for stabbing a woman twice during an argument at a party last December. Hoilett has been charged with wounding with intent. Reports from the Ocho Rios...

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...