SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Pastor Nilka Marrero will slam her hand on the table, raise her voice and, if needed, shake her parishioners while playing the role of a federal agent. Many of her parishioners are undocumented immigrants, and she...

ON THURSDAY, February 20, the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) launched an exhibition called ‘Dancehall Male Fashion’ at 10-12 Ocean Boulevard in downtown Kingston. The event was moderated by Georgette...

TOKYO (AP): Meet the world’s oldest female barber: She is 108, but the slender, white-haired Japanese woman has no plans to retire anytime soon. Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal recognition by the Guinness World Records earlier this month brought...

Oshane Creary, the man on the ground in Jamaica leading the Lesma Ellis Foundation, is on a mission to train more women in technology. This comes after the foundation recently received a grant from the European Union to support its mandate...

WESTERN BUREAU: Leona Bennett, a senior public cleansing inspector at the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) Western Parks and Markets Limited (WPM), who has special responsibility for Westmoreland, says technology will be used to...

The National Water Commission (NWC) has programmed $1.8 billion for the rehabilitation and upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities. This is part of multibillion-dollar investments aimed at rectifying aging pipelines and integrating renewable...

The Savanna-la-mar Public General Hospital, through the Ministry of Health...

More than 800 primary and secondary institutions across Jamaica are set to benefit from a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Education in Schools Programme over the next three years. The GB£1.7-million programme is an...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny police, led by Superintendent Winston Milton, are preparing to address interpersonal disputes throughout the parish, as, while other serious crimes are declining, residents continue to struggle with poor conflict...

The Supreme Court has granted an injunction blocking the Portmore parish law from taking effect. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes granted the orders on Thursday. The Opposition People's National Party claims the law is unconstitutional. The injunction...

National Housing Trust (NHT) contributors are set to able to borrow more from the agency as the Government is to increase the loan limit for individual borrowers to $9 million beginning July 1, up from the current $7.5 million. This was announced...

The Government is to introduce a $1-billion 'Solidarity Programme" that will provide one-time cash grants of 20,000 to vulnerable citizens, including low-income informal workers. The money will be provided to 50,000 vulnerable citizens not...

The national minimum wage will increase to $16,000 per 40-hour work week effective June 1 this year. That’s a 6.7 per cent increase over the current rate of $15,000 per 40-hour work week, according to Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness. He was...

The Government will move to implement a new system for motor vehicle fitness certificates and registration. Contributing to the Budget Debate in Parliament today, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness said the first certificate of fitness for new...

The Government plans to pursue a US$350 million project to extend the North-South Highway, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has announced. The highway starts in Caymanas, St Catherine and ends in Mammee Bay, St Ann. Holness said the expansion...

Anneisha Ramsay, who pleaded guilty to stealing a five-week-old baby in 2019 after allegedly agreeing to adopt the infant for $500,000, was given a two-year suspended sentence this afternoon in the Home Circuit Court. Ramsay pleaded guilty to the...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) will not be allowed to “party with our rent money”. Holness' use of the term rent money was in reference to the country’s net international reserves (NIR), which...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness ripped into Opposition Leader Mark Golding, calling him a “man of convenience”. Holness accused Golding, the president of the People's National Party (PNP), of “flip-flopping between prudence and popularity when...

Jamaica has spent 38 years or well over half of its 62 years of political independence recovering from crises. Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, who made the disclosure, cited the oil crisis of the 1970s; the FINSAC “debacle” of the 1990; the...

The Government plans to introduce a dedicated school bus system for rural Jamaica starting in September this year. The announcement was made on Thursday by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness in his contribution to the 2025-2026 Budget Debate in...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday introduced a new tax for all workers as part of measures to fill the financial gap left by the USAID funding pause. The funds collected will go to a new Ethiopian Disaster Risk...

On March 21, people across the world will recognise World Down Syndrome Day, a global movement dedicated to raising awareness and advocating for inclusion. In Jamaica, the Jamaica Down’s Syndrome Foundation (JDSF) is leading the charge with the ‘...

TORONTO (AP) — New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will trigger a snap election on Sunday, a government official familiar with the matter said Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak...

A 20-year-old man has been charged for the stabbing death of his 53-year-old father during an attack. Charged with murder is Jerry-Neol Dixon, otherwise called ‘Ojay,' of Goodwin Park Road in St Andrew. Killed is Sean Dixon, a labourer of Price...

The number of social workers employed within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s parish offices will be bolstered with the recruitment of an additional 200 practitioners. They will add to the close to 200 social workers who are already...

The Shady Grove police in St Catherine are probing the discovery of the decomposing body of a senior citizen inside his home on Wednesday. He is 61-year-old Fitzroy Brandford of Pennington district. Brandford’s body was found lying on its back...

The Faculty of Law at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, recently honoured the late Suzanne Ffolkes Goldson, a towering figure in company law, with a memorial lecture featuring esteemed legal practitioner Michael Hylton. Attended by...

A 39-year-old mechanic from Rockfort in Kingston has been charged with multiple offences, including murder, following the shooting of a man on Hillcrest Avenue in St Andrew in December 2024. Charged is Terrian Gordon, otherwise called ‘Quincy,’...

One of two men fatally shot by police in St James Wednesday afternoon is believed to have been a person of interest in the shooting of two cops at a supermarket in Montego Bay on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as 23-year-old...

Former People's National Party (PNP) lawmaker Jolyan Silvera, who is accused of the shooting-murder of his wife in 2023, will make another attempt for bail in the Court of Appeal next week. A hearing has been set for Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. before...

Forty-two-year-old Andrew Amos, a truck driver of Jacaranda, Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been charged with theft over the alleged non-delivery of several items valued at just over $335,000 earlier this year. He has been charged with larceny...