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Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 3:39 PM

The St Mary police are probing the gun murder of a teen in the parish on Tuesday night. The deceased is 17-year-old Raheem Smith. Reports are that about 10:18 p.m. Smith was shot by unknown assailants in Cricket River, Annotto Bay. He was...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 3:22 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A tropical storm watch has gone into effect for several Caribbean islands as Tropical Storm Jerry is forecast to become a hurricane on Thursday. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said that the storm is located...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 3:16 PM

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is to provide assistance to a distressed Trafalgar Park woman whose home was flooded twice in just over a week due to a blocked drain at an adjoining property. The municipal authority has...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 1:44 PM

The Christiana police in Manchester are investigating the death of a man whose body was found hanging from a tree in his yard on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased is 29-year-old farmer Orlando Delroy Murray of Carter district in Craighead. The...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 1:26 PM

A trial is currently under way for a man who has been charged for the 2018 death of businessman Jean-Pierre Rhone, who went missing and whose body was found days later partially covered under sand. Twenty-six-year-old Shamar Clarke, an employee...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 2:09 PM

Former People’s National Party (PNP) councillor Roogae Kirlew is expected to face the court following a ruling by the Director of Corruption Prosecution at the Integrity Commission that he be charged for breaching the Integrity Commission Act....

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:31 PM

The Supreme Court this morning reserved September 26 to November 23 of next year for the possible trial period for the case against Leoda Bradshaw and three others in connection to the murder of politician Phillip Paulwell's 10-month-old daughter...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:15 PM

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor Rohan Hall is to be charged for breaching the Integrity Commission Act, the director of corruption prosecution has ruled. Hall, councillor for the Red Hills division in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 11:47 AM

People’s National Party (PNP) councillor Keisha Lewis says she is currently in the process of addressing issues related to her statutory declarations. In a statement on Wednesday, Lewis, councillor for the Lauriston division in the St Catherine...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 11:21 AM

The Director of Corruption Prosecution at the Integrity Commission has ruled that charges be laid against People’s National Party (PNP) councillor Keisha Lewis for failing to file statutory declarations for three separate periods. Lewis,...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 10:58 AM

A Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) driver has died after the bus he was operating crashed into a ditch along Salt Pond Road in St Catherine early Wednesday morning. He has been identified as Dwayne Mullings. According to the police, around 3:...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 10:33 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Waterspouts and a weak tornado on Tuesday damaged and blew off the roofs of several houses in northwestern Trinidad, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. The Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 10:13 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has indicated that trainees at its National Police College in St Catherine have been exposed to a body-worn camera (BWCs) training session, as part of efforts to drive better policing. The JCF, in a social...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 11:12 AM

The Ministry of Health and Wellness says it has recognised the need to strengthen its procurement systems to ensure greater transparency, following the tabling of an Integrity Commission (IC) report on contracts awarded to Market Me between 2016...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 8:32 AM

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Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 8:19 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 15 people were killed late Tuesday after debris from a massive landslide hit a bus in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities said. The bus was travelling on a hilly stretch near Bilaspur district...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 5:19 AMMichael Burleigh for Project Syndicate

LONDON: US President Donald Trump’s total war on his political opponents, announced with his paper-thin indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, has revitalized comparisons between his rule and the fascists of the 1930s. After all,...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 5:12 AMAntara Haldar for Project Syndicate

CAMBRIDGE: When the United Nations emerged from the rubble of two world wars 80 years ago, it represented humanity’s most ambitious attempt ever to turn catastrophe into cooperation. But while the scarred world of 1945 had hope following the...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 5:06 AMHilary J. Allen for Project Syndicate

WASHINGTON, DC: With the passage of the GENIUS Act, the United States will allow all manner of companies (including the largest tech platforms) to issue their own money in the form of crypto assets known as “stablecoins.” With a single...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 5:01 AMJan-Werner Mueller for Project Syndicate

PRINCETON: With many US government services shutting down for lack of funding, the blame game in Washington is intensifying, and journalists are playing their own game of trying to predict the political winner. But given that Democrats are...

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