A few days ago, I overheard a conversation between a young mother and her daughter, who looked about six years old. The child wanted to know why Boxing Day is so called, and when it is. The mother answered, “I don’t know,” to both questions,...

More than 100 residents of the Shrewsbury and Logwood districts in Petersfield, Westmoreland received much-needed health and social services on December 13, as Faith Apostolic Ministries continued its hurricane relief efforts in the area. The...

“Without my community, I don’t know how I would survive,” shared Cordell Brown, a business banker at NCB’s Baywest branch in St James. “This donation is coming from home. NCB has been my backbone through this journey, and this contribution reminds...

The United Way of Jamaica (UWJ) , in partnership with title sponsor CIBC Caribbean, recently hosted a movie night for 210 children and 35 caregivers from 10 children’s homes across Jamaica. The event which was held at Carib 5 in Cross Roads,...

A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04...

Custos of St James, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, has called on Jamaicans to embrace compassion, justice, and service this Christmas, reminding them that the birth of Christ remains a source of “great joy for all the people” and a guiding light for...

Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are mourning the death of one of their colleagues who has passed away. The deceased has been identified as 46-year-old Corporal Avarene Morris, who was attached to the Major Investigation Division...

A man was killed and several others injured in a crash along the Oracabessa main road in St Mary early Christmas morning. The deceased has been identified by the police as 58-year-old Devon Anthony Baldie. According to the police, at...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations,...

The Court of Appeal has set aside permission granted to five funeral homes to challenge police force orders on sudden deaths, ruling that procedural defects meant the judicial review case should never have gone forward. The decision ends, for now...

(AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after two years of subdued celebrations because of the war...

Collin James, a taxi driver, has been charged with the murder of Natalie Gooden, the Westmoreland woman who died following an attack at a house in Cornwall Mountain in the parish recently. Gooden was found locked inside the house, beaten and...

The Clarendon police are investigating the death of a 62-year-old pedal cyclist who was struck by a motorbike on Tuesday evening. The deceased has been identified as Francisco Thomas, otherwise called 'Bagga,' a higgler from Rocky Point,...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has received 10 new tipper trucks, valued approximately $200 million, to strengthen the National Clean-up Programme in parishes impacted by Hurricane Melissa. The units were handed over to the...

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), Hugh Grant, has announced that electricity will be restored to key facilities and major sections of Black River, St Elizabeth, by Thursday night, following weeks of...

PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — In a Christmas reunion, families and villagers in north-central Nigeria cried and hugged schoolchildren who were held for a month after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history. The 130...

Residents of Fitzgerald Avenue in the Maxfield area of St Andrew have been urged by lawmen to partner with the police in the coming year to help reduce violent crime. Divisional Commander for St Andrew South, Senior Superintendent Damion...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Wednesday criticised the use of drones to acquire photos of “military installations and equipment,” noting “with great concern” drone activity in close proximity to both Piarco...

Hundreds of residents in parishes severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa are receiving cash vouchers just in time for Christmas. The disbursement, which started on December 17, is being undertaken by the World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration...

Superintendent Coleridge Minto, head of the St Elizabeth Police Division, has assured residents and visitors that the parish is safe and ready to host major public events, as he threw his full support behind the first-ever New Year’s Eve fireworks...

The organisers of Rebel Salute have announced that the event will not be staged in Jamaica in 2026, citing challenges brought about by Hurricane Melissa. In a statement posted on its Instagram page, Rebel Salute said the hurricane has disrupted...

Western Bureau: Chairman of the Janet Richards Foundation, Janet Richards, says she will be reaching out to the Usain Bolt Foundation to help transform the play area at the St James-based Mustard Seed Children’s Home, saying that playing and having...

Up to the end of the 20th century Christmas celebrations were more widely anticipated in Jamaica, secularly and religiously, than they are nowadays. The days leading up to Christmas were full of feelings of excitement; school, church, home and...

The Jonkunnu festivity at Moore Town, a Maroon village in East Portland’s Rio Grande Valley, has died a slow, natural death — leaving residents with a quiet resolve. Colonel of the Moore Town Maroons, Wallace Sterling, recalled that Jonkunnu once...

When the winds died down and the floodwaters began to recede, the true cost of Hurricane Melissa slowly came into view. Beyond damaged homes and disrupted lives, another crisis unfolded quietly across the island: frightened animals left without...

Fourteen students at Brown’s Town Community College (BTCC) will benefit from a $1 million JPS Foundation partnership to support its electrical installation programme. Sophia Lewis, head of the foundation, told students and staff the partnership “...

The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has condemned what it says is the deliberate destruction of billboards advertising entertainment events, warning that the practice will not be tolerated. The municipal authority said it has...

(AP) — The United States Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it was replacing its longstanding lottery system for H-1B work visas with a new approach that prioritises skilled, higher-paid foreign workers. The change follows a series of...

Jamaican pastor Alton Farquharson, who is charged with murder in the death of his wife, was remanded when he appeared in a court in Canada on Tuesday. The 56-year-old, who is reportedly from Mile Gully in Manchester, has been in police custody...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s government has declared an economic state of emergency that enables President Gustavo Petro’s administration to issue taxes by decree, as the nation struggles to finance hospitals and the military while paying...

Two men were shot and killed in an attack at a bar along Manchester Road in Manchester on Monday night. They have been identified by police as 40-year-old truck driver Nicholas Tomlinson of the May Day district in the parish, and 32-year-old...

The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has advised that some suppliers will not receive payments today as scheduled due to a «technical banking issue». SERHA said the matter is being treated with urgency and that active contact is being...

(AP) — Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married, the tennis great announced Tuesday on social media. Williams and Preti became wife and husband over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a five-day celebration. After becoming the...

The police have now charged a third man who was taken into custody in connection with the death of St Catherine contractor Humphrey Brown, who was killed and whose body was subsequently found in a shallow grave. Charged with murder, conspiracy to...

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is reporting that it has temporarily waived the penalty charged to deposit-taking institutions for using the ACH platform to facilitate transactions over $1 million, arising from ongoing issues with the RTGS system. Some...