WESTERN BUREAU: The divisional council of the Hanover Police Youth Clubs, through an initiative dubbed “Kindness Connect School Care,” has presented two primary and infant schools in the parish with gifts that will greatly improve their teaching/...

WESTERN BUREAU: Three of the four road breakaways between Stettin and Wait-A-Bit in South Trelawny are currently being rehabilitated under the Government’s multimillion-dollar SPARK programme. According to Janel Ricketts, the community...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica is on track to welcome more than 4.5 million visitors in 2025, with tourism earnings projected to reach US$4.62 billion, continuing the island’s impressive post-pandemic growth trajectory. Delivering the latest forecast...

The Coconut Industry Board (CIB) is encouraging farmers in the sector to liaise with the agency for the expansion of production and to maximise export earnings. Speaking at the launch of a series of town hall meetings to commemorate the CIB’s 80th...

On Saturday, May 24, the second day of the 2025 Calabash Literary Festival at Calabash Bay, Treasure Beach in St Elizabeth, between 2:30 and 4 p.m., Jamaica-born poet, author, scholar and educator, Professor Jason Allen-Paisant, will be reading a...

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) is reiterating its position that there were no breaches of public procurement rules in the acquisition of a new neurosurgical drill for the Bustamante Hospital for Children. Opposition Spokesman...

An investigation is under way into the abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in St Catherine on Thursday morning. Reports are that about 1 a.m., the child was abducted from home at knife point and sexually assaulted. She was...

St Catherine businessman, Rowan Hinds, is to be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on July 10 after pleading guilty to the charges of failure to secure firearm and manslaughter in relation to the death of his three-year-old son. Hinds pleaded...

Human rights group Jamaicans for Justice says today's verdict in the Mario Deane trial brings a measure of accountability in a case that has «come to symbolise the deep systemic failures within Jamaica’s justice and law enforcement systems»....

The seven-member jury in the Mario Deane trial has retired to begin deliberations on the verdicts for the three police personnel before the Westmoreland Circuit Court for his death in 2014. Corporal Elaine Stewart and Constables Juliana Clevon...

A man was fatally shot and a policeman injured during an alleged confrontation today in the community of Ebonyvale, Spanish Town, St Catherine. The injured corporal, who is assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division, was rushed to...

The police are reporting the seizure of 16 firearms and over 250 rounds of ammunition at a warehouse on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston last week Wednesday. They say a joint operation between the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) and the Firearm and...

A St Mary farmer, 28-year-old Ranneil Hoilett, is in police custody following a ganja bust on Wednesday in the Three Hills area of the parish. Police sources say that ganja weighing 408 pounds with a street value of $6,120,000 was discovered at...

The three police personnel in the Mario Deane trial were today found guilty in the Westmoreland Circuit Court on all the charges stemming from Deane's death in 2014. Corporal Elaine Stewart and constables Juliana Clevon and Marlon Grant were...

Jamaica’s poverty prevalence for 2023 was estimated at 8.2 per cent, a decline from 16.7 per cent in 2021. Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Director General, Dr Wayne Henry, disclosed that it was “the lowest figure ever recorded since poverty...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighbourhood during foggy weather early Thursday, setting about 15 homes on fire as well as vehicles, and forcing evacuations along several blocks, authorities said. “We have jet fuel all...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Regional carrier Caribbean Airlines on Thursday morning said its Boeing 737 jet services are currently experiencing delays due to a regional outage of the SITA satellite communication system, which supports critical...

Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren has named a mixed squad of local and international-based players for the upcoming Unity Cup set to take place in London at the Gtech Community Stadium. Jamaica will face Trinidad and Tobago on May 27 in...

Air traffic communications entity SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques) is dismissing reports of an outage impacting airlines. The company says all is well with its systems. “We can confirm that our systems have been...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) projects that the initial impact of rising US tariffs on prices in Jamaica will be minimal. “In assessing the near-term outlook, the Monetary Policy Committee contemplated the implications...

A 61-year-old St Thomas resident died from injuries he suffered after being hit by a motor vehicle while walking along a roadway in the parish last night. He is Assaro Stewart, a handcart operator of Bamboo River in Morant Bay. Reports are that...

The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) has officially unveiled the nominees for the 40th Annual JCC Awards as it honours trailblazers, innovators, and changemakers shaping Jamaica’s economic future. Announced during a recent media launch, the list...

Several residents of Grants Pen, St Andrew, say they do not want to return to the days when bloodshed and hostility were the norm in the community and citizens resented the police. The call for cooperation with the security forces comes on the...

The police are urging two men they say are creating «mayhem» in the Grants Pen area of St Andrew to turn themselves in to the Constant Spring police by 6 p.m. following this morning's fiery protest of the fatal shooting of a man during an alleged...

Medical Technologies Limited is threatening legal action against opposition spokesman on health, Dr Alfred Dawes, following claims he made regarding the procurement of a neurosurgical drill for the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew....

A one-handed St Andrew man was freed of gun-related charges in the Western Regional Gun Court in St James on Wednesday. Jabari Campbell, a 28-year-old music producer, was found not guilty of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition by High...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will be undertaking several clean-up and beautification projects across the island on Labour Day, which will be observed on May 23. Executive Director of the agency, Audley Gordon, told JIS...

The Government will be spending approximately $832 million on critical mitigation work across the island, ahead of what is projected to be an active 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season. This includes a $172-million allocation to be distributed among...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says two police officers seen in a video at a house were responding to a distress call concerning children and were not engaged in any improper conduct. The video has been circulating online, prompting...

A one-handed St Andrew man was freed of gun-related charges in the Western Regional Gun Court in St James on Wednesday. Jabari Campbell, a 28-year-old music producer, was found not guilty of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition by High...

NASSAU, Bahamas - A court in the Bahamas has sentenced a 37-year-old man to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to repeatedly raping his pre-teen stepdaughter resulting in her getting pregnant. The court has also ordered that the man be...