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The Manchester police have confirmed that the man who was found hanging from a mango tree in Tweedside district on Friday was the main suspect in the killing of a school teacher and her daughter in St Catherine. The deceased is Brandon Antonio...
WASHINGTON, CMC – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D Clarke says along with New York Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks she has led 56 of their colleagues in a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Trump...
WASHINGTON, CMC -A Jamaican man extradited to the United States to face fraud charges has been ordered detained pending trial for allegedly orchestrating a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that defrauded an elderly American woman of more than US$...
Opposition spokesperson on local government, Natalie Neita Garvey, is calling for Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, to immediately implement a clear plan and allocate the necessary financial resources to...
Detectives assigned to the Kingston Western Criminal Investigations Branch have charged a man who reportedly shot at another man with whom he had a dispute. Twenty-five-year-old Lenroy Collins, otherwise called ‘Great Man', or ‘Lenny Mattic', of...
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Some wore black dresses to signify a funeral for fossil fuels, hundreds wore red shirts, symbolizing the blood of colleagues fighting to protect the environment and others chanted, waved huge flags or held up signs Saturday in...
The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday halved the number of flights that US airlines must cut from their schedules at 40 airports as the country’s aviation system recovers from a shortage of air traffic controllers during the record...
The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is engaging multilateral partners to craft robust standards that will guide the development of more climate-resilient schools in the country. Portfolio Minister, Senator Dr Dana Morris...
The public is being advised that four containers that were being stored at Porto Bello in Montego Bay, St James, which were found with compromised foods, have been discovered to be tampered with and/or gone missing from the compound. The Ministry...
A 16-year-old boy was one of two persons who died from injuries received in separate vehicular crashes in St Thomas last night. Dead is Devaughn Henry, a student of Ginger Hall in Bath in the parish. The other deceased is yet to be identified....
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) says 95% of customers in Portland and St Mary will have power by the first week of December, as the company continues restoration efforts across the island. JPS also indicated that 75% of customers in St Ann,...
As the National Works Agency (NWA) continues the rehabilitation of Liguanea Avenue in St Andrew, another section of the roadway will be temporarily closed for two weeks, starting on Monday, November 17. The closure will be between Paddington...
The police are reporting that one of the three men listed as persons of interest in connection with the murder of two policemen along Waltham Park Road in St Andrew on Thursday has turned himself in. In custody is 19-year-old Macarius Munroe,...
The Port Authority of Jamaica is reporting that extended opening hours have been implemented across major port facilities as it deals with the rise in hurricane relief cargo, as well as the impending increase in cargo activity for the upcoming...
A Jamaican man who was extradited to Washington in the United States on allegations of defrauding an elderly American woman in a lottery scam has been ordered detained by a court pending trial on four counts of wire fraud and four counts of mail...
A man was found hanging from a tree in Spalding, Manchester on Friday, the police have confirmed. However, Superintendent Carey Duncan, commanding officer for the Manchester Police Division, said the man’s identity has not yet been ascertained....
The University of the West Indies, Mona has announced new dates for its graduation ceremonies which were postponed due to Hurricane Melissa. The ceremonies, originally scheduled for October 30 to November 1, 2025, have been rescheduled to January...
The Government is exploring the use of geographic information system (GIS) geo-tagging technology to enhance its ongoing response to Hurricane Melissa. The solution was discussed during a stakeholder meeting with Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness...
The gruesome murder of 29-year-old Bridgeport Primary School teacher Tara Pinnock and her 14-year-old daughter, Talia Wright, has sent shockwaves throughout the school community, leaving students and staff in deep mourning. Their bodies had...
The Water Resources Authority (WRA) has indicated it is still unable to say when rising groundwater in Content, Manchester, will start receding, but is “hoping” that it will soon start to balance out before eventually receding. Peter Clarke,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Police High Command is condemning the brutal murder of two police constables on Waltham Park Road, Kingston 11, on Thursday night, calling it an "attack on the very fabric of law and order" in Jamaica. Thirty...
The wait is over as the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) schoolboy Manning and daCosta Cup football competitions will resume the week of November 24 after being suspended for more than two weeks. ISSA made the announcement via...
The Manchester Health Department is advising residents of the parish to avoid direct contact with the rising floodwaters in Content, Williamsfield in Manchester. It notes that floodwaters pose a serious risk of contamination and it is warning...
The trial of entertainer Alecia 'Lila Ike' Gray and co-accused Shennelle Moore for disorderly conduct has been set for February 12, 2026 in the St Catherine Parish Court. When the matter was mentioned on Friday, Acting Senior Parish Court Judge...
Plans are under way for the construction of an oxygen plant at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon, a Type C facility, and the largest healthcare institution in the parish. The project is being undertaken in partnership with the United Nations...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Nineteen West African nationals deported by the US to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, a lawyer for one of the deportees said. Ana Dionne-Lanier, who represents one of the nationals, told The Associated Press on...
The policemen killed on Thursday night along Waltham Park Road in St Andrew have been identified as constables Charles Stewart, assigned to St Catherine North police division, and Jemarey Gordon, assigned to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised...
GENEVA (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo likely faces a three-week wait to discover the length of his FIFA ban ahead of the 2026 World Cup. The Portugal superstar could be suspended for two or three games for the red card he was shown Thursday for...
