Explanatory Note: These constituencies were identified based on their electoral history, the performance of the two parties in the last local government election and after conducting interviews with persons in these constituencies. Any significant...

The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) trespassed in constructing a transmission line on private property in Hanover almost two decades ago. However, it overturned the $58-million penalty, ordering a...

The two major political parties will be adopting different tactics going into this election even though the groups they will target are similar. For the People’s National Party (PNP), that strategy has been to nurture discontent with the Government...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is in a difficult position. As leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), he has to balance the responsibilities of government while preventing his party’s ship from capsizing. He has been in office for nine years,...

With a general election constitutionally due this year, the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are vigorously preparing for the upcoming election. During this season, candidates are being selected (and deselected),...

Three women have been charged with the brutal murder of Kevin Walker, the 42-year-old Digicel worker and businessman whose body was found in a barrel on Industrial Terrace in Kingston last month. They are 30-year-old Anita Vanzie of Mark Lane in...

Dancehall artiste Mavado has expressed relief and outrage following Friday's Court of Appeal decision to overturn the murder conviction of his son, Dantay Brooks, and his co-accused, Andre Hinds. "There is a fire raging within me at the injustice...

A St Catherine man has been found guilty of murdering his brother by hitting him with a stone during a family dispute in Braeton, Portmore, 15 years ago. Herron Douglas, 43, was convicted in the St Catherine Circuit Court on Thursday for for the...

The St Andrew South police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 64-year-old man along Sherlock Crescent in the parish on Friday night. The deceased has been identified as Delton Thaxter, an unemployed resident who lived on Sherlock Crescent...

A high-level police operation in Wood Park, Gayle, St Mary, led to the capture of Nolando Atkinson, an escapee from the Oracabessa Police Station. Atkinson was apprehended on Friday by a team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Kenneil Blake...

An agro park to produce freshwater fish will be established in the coastal community of Mitchell Town in southern Clarendon, says Floyd Green, minister of agriculture, fisheries and mining. “We're going to embark on our first ever freshwater...

(AP) — North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the United States. State media on Saturday released photos showing what it...

Washington, DC: St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, was filled to capacity, with mourners paying tribute to Jamaica-born president and CEO of Marketing Consultant Ltd, Vashti Yolanda Henriques on Thursday, February 27. She died on...

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), with support from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), is working to strengthen farmer biosecurity practices, targeting 23 pig farmers per parish. In the context of agriculture, biosecurity...

Six civil society organisations have been awarded microgrants under a European Union (EU)-funded initiative aimed at strengthening their role in governance and development. The grants, administered through the Council of Voluntary Social Services (...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch can tick off her first 100 days in office. Making history as the first black woman to hold the position cannot be underestimated. But in terms of reasons to celebrate, it is very difficult to objectively...

LONDON: A Blue Plaque was unveiled recently in honour of legendary British reggae icon David Victor Emmanuel, better known as ‘Smiley Culture’, as a tribute to his groundbreaking contributions to music, television and British pop culture. The...

Fiscal Commissioner Courtney Williams says while Jamaica’s fiscal position and policy are sustainable, downside risks to growth projections are significant, given current geopolitical uncertainties and potential for hydrological shocks such as...

A man said to be of unsound mind was on Friday afternoon mobbed and beaten by irate residents of Hague Settlement in Trelawny over the stabbing death of a man in the community. Dead is 56-year-old mason Leroy McIntosh. It is reported that...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease,...

Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says special nutritional support will be provided to 189 primary and 56 secondary schools in the upcoming fiscal year. The schools identified for support are...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first US prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or...

Minister of Justice, Delroy Chuck, says $1.1 billion has been paid, so far, in judgment debt for the 2024/25 fiscal year. He was addressing the meeting of the Standing Finance Committee in Gordon House on Thursday. “We have another $300 million...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamian government Friday said officials from the SpaceX are due there following Thursday night’s explosion of a SpaceX Starship rocket with debris falling into Bahamian airspace. “The debris from Starship fell into...

The Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs has filled 70 per cent of the posts on its establishment. Portfolio Minister, Marlene Malahoo Forte, made the disclosure during Thursday’s meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of...

Dante Brooks, son of dancehall artiste Mavado, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly four years ago for murder, was this morning freed along with his co-accused, Andre Hinds, after the Court of Appeal overturned their convictions. The duo...

Regional and local oversight bodies, as well as law-enforcement officials, are expected to converge in Kingston on March 26, to attend the inaugural Oliver F Clarke Memorial Lecture on ‘Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement’. The event will be...

Works are being done at Fort Rocky in Port Royal “without the necessary approvals” from the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), the local government body has charged. Fort Rocky is one of several venues being transformed into...

An investigation has been launched into the fatal shooting of a man by the police in Spanish Town, St Catherine, after he allegedly attempted to disarm a policeman on Thursday night. About 7:15 p.m. the police reportedly conducted a snap raid in...

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has seized an estimated 12,470 pounds of cocaine, worth approximately US$141.4 million, during various operations in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard said that the crew of its cutter Valiant...

A 60-year-old woman was found dead at her home in Westmoreland on Thursday. She has been identified as Doreen Crooks, a farmer of Lennox Bigwoods. Reports are that about 5:50 p.m. Crooks was found dead on a sofa, with blood coming from her...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness says while there are currently no local or imported cases of measles in Jamaica, the country maintains a robust surveillance system for fever and rash. It says all cases are reported within 24 hours, while...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s premier wellness brand, JACANA, which is highly revered for its innovative range of cannabis by-products, has taken a bold step into retail with the recent opening of its first storefront at the new Princess Resorts in...

The Moon Palace Foundation reinforced its commitment to health and wellness with an impactful cancer awareness campaign throughout February, observed as Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to its ongoing health initiatives, the foundation also...

From 6 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, the International Youth Fellowship (IYF) in Jamaica was leading more than 200 volunteers in cleaning up a section of the beach along Palisadoes Road which is frequented by locals and visitors. “Yes, it’s the first time...