LANSING, Michigan (AP): The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison as the judge declared: "I just signed your death warrant."...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the declaration of the state of public emergency in St James has not affected travel bookings to Jamaica. Speaking on the subject this morning at the quarterly press briefing hosted by Prime Minister...
Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
JSE CAPITAL MARKETS CONFERENCE Prime Minister Andrew Holness is touting a doctrine of growth to take Jamaica along a more fruitful development path. He is urging the country to embrace this mantra in order for Jamaica to break out of decades of...
The St James Police have charged a 20-year-old for a double-killing in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay on January 13. Kasheen Lewis, otherwise called ‘Borderline’, of Upper King Street, Canterbury, St James was charged with two counts of...
Members of the security forces operating in Montego Bay under the current State of Emergency yesterday seized more than J$1.4 million and more than US$8,400 cash during an operation targeting persons involved in the illegal lottery scam and...
The police have imposed a curfew in sections of Central Village in St Catherine. The curfew began at 6 o’clock yesterday evening and will remain in effect until 6 o’clock tomorrow evening. The boundaries are along the Nelson...
A Haitian accused of having ganja weighing more than 1,600 pounds, plead guilty, when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court. Luge Felix is to be sentenced on March 14 after being charged with illegal entry, possession of ganja, dealing in...
The implementation of point of sale machines in courthouses across the island to facilitate transactions, such as the payment of traffic fines, bail bonds and maintenance allocations, has now been completed. Director of Corporate Planning and...
National Security Minister Robert Montague says the government will be seeking to use a revamped Early Retirement Scheme to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force of corrupt cops. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, he said corruption in the police force...
Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul Clarke
Eighty assorted rounds of ammunition have so far been seized in St James since the start of a state of emergency in the parish last Thursday. The latest find took place during an operation in Granville on Tuesday evening, where 49 7.62 rounds...
DAVOS (AP):Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is working to convince the United States (US) of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement.The government of US President Donald Trump is in talks to revise NAFTA...
We continued our series on First AngelsJa Successes yesterday, featuring Danielle Terrelonge Irons, founder and CEO of DRT Communications Limited, a marketing communications agency and the first company in the Caribbean to offer technology-driven...
KAMPALA(AP):Uganda's president says he loves President Donald Trump and that he should be praised for not mincing words."I love Trump because he tells Africans frankly," President Yoweri Museveni said yesterday, shortly after the US ambassador...
PARIS (AP):Russia is ultimately to blame for any use of chemical weapons in Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday amid reports of a suspected chemical attack this week near the capital, Damascus.Tillerson said Russia is violating...
Principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, Professor Archibald McDonald, is promising that this year's staging of Research Day will seek to present solutions, based on research, on some of the issues facing the country....
Microfinance lender Access Financial Services Limited (AFS), which made two acquisitions in the last two years, says that it will continue to buy up other operators as part of its growth strategy in 2018.Last November, the company also added another...
Amid the consistent complaints from fresh university graduates about the low wages being offered in the job market, a senior business executive is imploring them to take advantage of every employment opportunity, despite the initial low remuneration...
One thing I've learnt during my lifetime is not to judge others.I see readers' eyes rolling into their foreheads: "Yu gwaan! Yu judge all di time inna dese columns." No. What I'm relentless and unapologetic about is analysis beyond superficial;...
Singer Spiritual reserved his most flamboyant foot movement for the encore song, Give Thanks of Praise, of his approximately one-hour performance at Pulse's Trafalgar Road, New Kingston, headquarters on Saturday night. After Tommy Cowan's...
Reaching Individuals through Skills and Education (RISE) Life Management Services, a non-governmental organisation, established in Jamaica in 1989 as Addiction Alert Organisation, has been changing lives for the better through educational,...