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...

High Court judge Justice Courtney Daye today instructed the seven-member jury in the Mario Deane trial to carefully consider whether to accept the testimony of an inmate who reportedly witnessed Deane being mistreated by the police officers being...

A 54-year-old St Catherine man was shot during a robbery at his home along Jones Avenue, Spanish Town early this morning. He has been hospitalised in serious condition with a gunshot wound to his head. Reports are that about 3:30, the man was...

Petrojam’s project to convert heavy fuel oil (HFO) into asphalt is progressing and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of the 2025/26 fiscal year. This initiative involves installing new facilities to process HFO and produce asphalt...

Ride-hailing company inDrive has expressed sadness at the disappearance of university student Anisa Dilworth but says there is no record of her using its service recently. Dilworth, 20, a student of the University of Technology, Jamaica, was...

Businessman Robert Bell, who is charged for allegedly assaulting a nurse during what is believed to be a case of road rage, was denied bail when he made his first appearance in the Gun Court this morning. Bell is charged with assault occasioning...

Residents of Grants Pen in St Andrew today mounted fiery roadblocks to protest the fatal shooting of a man by the police during an alleged confrontation in the community this morning. They have accused the police of wrongdoing. The shooting is...

LONDON (AP) — A British judge ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on 5 million-pound (US$6.7 million) bail on Wednesday while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in...

In celebration of Labour Day 2025, Volunteers Incorporated (VI) will lead a major volunteer-driven renovation project at the Oasis Children’s Home, located in Yallahs, St Thomas. Taking place on Friday, the exercise forms part of VI’s commitment to...

Three outstanding students from The University of the West Indies (UWI) have been selected for the inaugural CariSurg Surgical Robotics Summer Research Programme at the University of Leeds in England. Samiya Allen, from the Cave Hill Campus;...

Workers’ Week 2025 is being celebrated May 18 to 23, under the theme ‘Transforming Jamaica’s Workforce for Greater Resilience and Sustainable Development’. This annual celebration recognises the dedication, resilience, and contributions of Jamaican...

Centre Manager and Counsellor at St Thomas Teen Hub, Chantal Williams, is urging youngsters in the parish to take advantage of a new Human Papillomavirus (HPV) chatbot to better educate themselves about the virus and the vaccine. The chatbot was...

The Second Component of the Hot Pepper Value Chain Project has focused on gaps in local food-safety efforts for agricultural stakeholders in five parishes. Facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), one key...

LONDON: An exhibition featuring the unique work of a Jamaica-born photographer has been launched, in the north of England. Frontline 1984/1985 is the début exhibition of Victor Wedderburn, highlighting over 100 colour images. The display documents...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, has highlighted the achievements of the Ministry’s Adopt-A-Clinic Programme, reiterating its vital role in strengthening primary healthcare across Jamaica. During a community event at the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Traditional hotels in Kingston and across the Caribbean are sounding the alarm over the unregulated expansion of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb, which they say are siphoning off as much as 30 per cent of business from small...

The CHASE Fund, the National Education Trust (NET) and E-Learning Jamaica Company Limited have come together in a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing learning spaces and installing essential digital resources at 15 infant, primary, secondary...

In a stirring address to mark the launch of Workers’ Week 2025, Bishop Courtney Golding of the Pentecostal Gospel Temple called for Jamaicans to embrace spiritual renewal, cultural decency, and environmental responsibility as a national duty....

WESTERN BUREAU: Nekeisha Burchell, the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for St James Southern, says there are ambitious plans in place to boost the constituency’s economic development by advocating for greater investments in tourism and...

WESTERN BUREAU: The People’s National Party (PNP) is hopeful that the newly opened St James Southern constituency office in Anchovy will greatly serve its function as a development hub for the area’s youths. Nekeisha Burchell, the party’s...

The Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, with a focus on health, education, and community outreach, took a step forward in fulfilling its mission by hosting its first-ever film festival and symposium. In his inaugural address and overview...

The spirit of literacy and community engagement was alive and well at the Central Branch All-Age School in Kingston, as the Kiwanis Club of Caribbean Emerging Leaders, Jamaica, recently launched its highly anticipated Kiwanis BUG (Bring Up Grades)...

Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) Inc is set to host its annual scholarships award luncheon on Wednesday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. The luncheon forms part of the United States-based non-profit organisation’s annual mission...

When King Solomon finished praying, heaven came down in its fullness. Fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifices and God’s glorious presence ( Shekinah) filled the temple so much that the priest could not enter into the temple again....

Yes, May is celebrated as Child Month in various countries. During this month, the importance of children’s rights, their welfare, and development are highlighted. Much emphasis is also placed on the criticality of their physical, spiritual,...

The ancient promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14 — rooted in humility, prayer, repentance, and divine healing — offers a piercing lens through which Jamaica’s Christian community must confront its complicity in the nation’s moral and social decay. While...

It is said that Revivalism, a Jamaican folk religion which is a syncretism of African spiritual practices and European Christian religiosity, started to evolve around 1860 and 1981 through the Great Revival movement. It is practised all over the...

The Court of Appeal has barred Gorstew Limited’s board from appointing a new director – marking a key legal victory for Sandals Executive Chairman Adam Stewart in his ongoing battle to prevent his removal from the helm of the company. Gorstew is a...

A garage operator and another man who were charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle were freed on Thursday after a parish court judge upheld a no-case submission. Alphius Drummonds, a garage operator, and Courtney Smith were charged on...

A body believed to be that of missing University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) student, 20-year-old Anisa Dilworth, has been found. The body was reportedly found this afternoon in Portmore, St Catherine. However, the police have not yet...

A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of St John's Primary School student Kelsey Ferrigon has reportedly found that she died by strangulation. The post-mortem, which was postponed due to an administrative hiccup yesterday, was held...

Medical Officer of Health for Portland, Dr Sharon Lewis, is encouraging residents to get regular blood pressure checks and embrace a healthy lifestyle to prevent and control hypertension, also known as high blood pressure. “Hypertension is...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Defence Minister Wayne Sturge is considering imposing restrictions on the upcoming One Unity Music Festival which Jamaican dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel is set to headline, including limiting entry to patrons 18...

An unidentified man was fatally shot after he allegedly attacked police personnel with a machete at the Brown's Town Police Station in St Ann on Friday. Reports are that about 3:45 a.m., two men were seen on the station compound and were...

The decomposing body of a senior citizen was found inside her house in the St Andrew Central police division on Friday. The deceased is 83-year-old Jeanette Yvonne Cooke, a retired travel agent, of Hope Boulevard, Kingston 6. It's reported that...