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December 23, 2025
Tennis star Venus Williams weds in Florida
(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…
December 23, 2025
SERHA warns of payment delays due to banking issue
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…
December 23, 2025
Double murder at bar in Manchester
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…
December 23, 2025
Colombia declares economic emergency in a criticised effort to raise more taxes
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…
December 23, 2025
Man charged for St Elizabeth double murder after 14 years on the run
After more than 14 years on the run, a 41-year-old labourer from Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, has been charged in connection with a deadly 2011 gun attack that left two young men dead and a woman…
December 23, 2025
Man gunned down in Manchester
A man was gunned down in the Brokenhurst district of Manchester on Monday. He has been identified by police as 41-year-old maintenance worker Everol Richards of Villa Road, Mandeville. Reports are…
December 23, 2025
BOJ temporarily waives ACH penalty for deposit-taking institutions amid RTGS issues
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…
December 23, 2025
Heather Hollingsworth | The rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools
Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the…
December 23, 2025
Update | Man charged for killing mother, brother and cousin in machete attack in Clarendon
The police have charged 26-year-old fisherman Daniel Henry with three counts of murder following last week’s triple-fatal machete attack in Frazersfield, Rocky Point, Clarendon. The charges stem from…