“Train crash! Train crash! Help is needed, all cadets are needed to rescue the injured!” shouted Neville Gallimore in the corridors of Cedar Hall, the men’s dormitory at West Indian Training College (WITC). It was the wee hours of the morning in...

FOR MANY years, the desire for a separate building to house the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been languishing in some people’s head, and now it seems like it has jumped out of their head and has hit the ground hard. For, on Sunday, August 31,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Aubyn Green, acting water production engineer at the National Water Commission (NWC), says that ongoing water supply challenges in Montego Bay will be significantly improved once the Western Resilience Pipeline Project begins....

WESTERN BUREAU: Superintendent Eron Samuels, head of the St James Police Division, has promised to provide an official update to the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) on the long-delayed construction of a new police station in Granville. The...

A Resolution has been moved by the St Thomas Municipal Corporation to rename St Georges Street in Morant Bay to Toni-Ann Singh Street, in honour of the former Miss World, who hails from the parish. During the monthly meeting of the Corporation...

Minister with responsibility for works, Robert Nesta Morgan, says he has written to Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake requesting an urgent investigation into alleged threats made against workers and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) staff...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The majority of a panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices on Thursday voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat, in a ruling that will...

An announcement by the People’s National Party (PNP) that it is contemplating filing a case with the Constituted Authority about the conduct of last week’s election in the constituency of St Andrew West Central has been dismissed by the Jamaica...

The statue of sprint legend Usain Bolt promised for Water Square Falmouth since 2019 was finally erected recently, but work continues to get it ready for the official unveiling. "We are waiting on plans from the Ministry of Sports Entertainment...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top court ruled on Thursday that an apartheid-era law banning husbands from taking their wife’s family name or hyphenating both spouses’ surnames was unconstitutional. The ruling by the Constitutional Court,...

People’s National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding says he will continue to lead as long as the party maintains confidence in him. Golding, addressing a PNP post-general election event today, said he is someone who believes in service and will...

The PNP Patriots, the young professional affiliate of the People’s National Party (PNP), says it is backing the continued leadership of PNP President Mark Golding and the party's General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell following the outcome of the...

The body of a man was found face down in a pile of garbage in an open lot in the community of Clayton Heights, located along St John's Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Wednesday night. He has been identified as 24-year-old customer service...

The police in Trelawny are probing the death of a man whose body was found inside his home in Hague Settlement on Wednesday night. He is 25-year-old labourer Jammie Brown. The police report that about 10:30, Brown was found hanging from the...

People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has stated that the party does not intend to seek a magisterial recount in any constituency following last week’s general election. Further, Golding said that all but one Member of Parliament-...

Farmers in Hayfield, St Thomas are now better equipped to manage the impacts of disasters, particularly hurricanes, following an interagency training session. The Agriculture Disaster Risk Management training, held at Hayfield Primary and Infant...

The police are seeking to locate a caller who caused a security scare at the Seaview Gardens Police Station in St Andrew on Wednesday. According to police reports, around 3:20 p.m., a male caller claimed that an explosive device had been planted...

The Supreme Court has granted an interim injunction blocking Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake from removing Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron as chairman of the Police Officers’ Association (POA). It marks an escalation of a spat between...

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario (AP) — A young child was killed when an SUV smashed through the window of a daycare north of Toronto shortly before pick-up time on Wednesday. York Regional Police said the boy was just 1 1/2 years old. Six other children...

With phishing campaigns on the rise following a breach of Google’s Salesforce database, Dwayne Brown, cybersecurity executive at JN Group, has urged Gmail users to strengthen their account security and adopt safer log-in practices. His warning...

LINVAL AND Menervah Taylor believe that a good education is the key to success, as knowledge and learning empower individuals to achieve personal and professional goals, develop critical thinking skills, and adapt to changing circumstances For the...

TEN-YEAR-OLD Matthew Anderson is perhaps the youngest person in the Caribbean to pass subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, an internationally recognised secondary school qualification in the Caribbean...

WESTERN BUREAU: MONTEGO BAY’S First Dance Studio, which has been on a mission to uphold local arts and culture in western Jamaica since 2013, was on Monday presented with a $350,000 donation to help finance their operations. The donation, which was...

WESTERN BUREAU: Montego Bay Mayor Richard Vernon is calling on Jamaicans to support the country’s arts culture, which he says is both crucial to Jamaica’s tourism and entertainment sectors and for the uplifting of societal structure. Vernon made...

WHILE SHE was on her way back to Jamaica from CARIFESTA in Barbados, spoken-word artiste/poet Kacy Garvey was announced the ‘Best International Artist’ at the prestigious National Spoken Word Awards, held on Friday, August 31. In speaking with The...

Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has expressed disappointment that the by-election for the Seivwright Gardens division was not held on the same day as the September 3 General Election, citing the added financial burden to taxpayers. By-elections...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is urging the municipal authorities and mayors across Jamaica to be vigilant and ensure all election paraphernalia are removed «within reasonable time». "It is important...

The Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) has launched a new brand identity, aimed at signalling transformation, renewal, and a commitment to meeting the needs of today’s students. Executive Director, Nickeisha Walsh, tells JIS News that the rebrand is...

The country is to be given an update on the swearing in of the new Government following a meeting tomorrow morning between Prime Minister-designate Dr Andrew Holness and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen. Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is calling for the Ministry of Education and Youth to introduce strict limitations on the actions schools can take against students who breach their grooming and dress code guidelines. In a media release...

A dispute over the price of a tray of eggs is what may have set off a deadly chain of events in Manchester on Tuesday, which ended when a man, armed with two guns and more than 500 bullets, was shot and killed after a fierce stand-off and gun...