Western Bureau: Wynter McIntosh, the councillor for the Chester Castle Division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC), is appealing to individuals, organisations and the Government to provide building material and other items to assist the...
As much as our world may be viewed as an independent entity, the nations that comprise it are very dependent upon each other. There is evidence to show that the supply of resources needed for the sustenance of human life is already negatively...
Republican lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives rejected a pair of Democratic-backed resolutions that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of...
Glenmuir High and St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) will clash in the 2025 ISSA daCosta Cup final after both schools booked their places with semifinal victories at Sabina Park on Wednesday. STETHS are back in the ISSA daCosta Cup finals for...
The Runaway Bay police in St Ann are searching for a man known as “Puss Head” of Salem district in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in the parish on Tuesday. The victim has been identified as 64-year-old Diasric Blake of Salem, Runaway...
Corporal Shantel Powell has been named the 2025 LASCO/Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Police of the Year, with Sergeant Rojehn Holt placing second. The winners were announced at the Saluting Our Heroes Awards ceremony on Wednesday afternoon....
A St Catherine man who pleaded guilty to robbing a schoolboy of a cellular phone valued at $10,000 was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in the parish court on Tuesday. The accused, 18-year-old Kenroy Douglas, also known as 'Squaddy,' of...
Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says negotiations to develop a new electricity licensing arrangement for Jamaica have started. He has further indicated that a consultant from overseas has been contracted by the Government. Vaz provided the details...
Motorists will pay less for gas on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $3.06 to sell for $149.26 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $3.06 to sell for $155.88. Automotive diesel oil will...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has announced that an animal-tagging blitz will be carried out in Clarendon on Saturday, beginning at 8 a.m. The exercise will be conducted under the National Animal Identification and...
A 34-year-old fisherman of Paggee district, Port Maria, St Mary, has been charged in connection with the seizure of a gun in his community on Saturday. The accused, Donnadoni McDonald, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon following...
The Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA) has delivered 5,000 bags of fertiliser, valued at approximately $35 million, to support recovery in the coffee industry following Hurricane Melissa. The Jamaica Coffee Growers...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:54 PM
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, at hard labour, after pleading guilty to the theft of batteries and cables from telecommunications provider Digicel. Erick Robinson appeared before the St. Catherine Parish Court...
THE EDITOR, Madam: I wish to register my strong objection to the suggestion that consensual sex between minors should not be treated as a criminal matter in Jamaica. Whatever the legal intention behind this proposal, it is fundamentally...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 11:21 AM
The truth is often like a wife who abandons her husband in hospital, a friend who does not return your calls for help, bankers who refuse you after the 243rd mortgage payment and governments who ignore promises the day after election. When the...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 11:11 AM
(AP) — Governor of the US state of New York, Kathy Hochul, said Wednesday that she has reached a deal with state legislative leaders to approve a bill to give terminally ill people the legal ability to end their own lives with prescribed...
Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 10:54 AM
Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern, Isat Buchanan, has called on Gender Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange to directly engage with students and the administration at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) following the alleged...
Water supply to multiple communities in Portmore, St Catherine will be interrupted for most of today as the National Water Commission (NWC) undertakes major repairs on the Goshen Pen transmission pipeline. The disruption will run from 10 a.m. to...
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz is parting ways with his longtime coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the man who guided him to the pinnacle of men’s tennis during a fruitful seven-year partnership. Alcaraz announced the decision to end their collaboration on...