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An operation targeting a suspected cop killer ended in the fatal shooting of three men during what investigators describe as an armed, daylight confrontation along the westbound lane of the Nelson Mandela Highway in the Corporate Area on Wednesday...

A senior crimefighter with background in technology on Wednesday mapped out a series of communications allegedly made by murder accused Noel Maitland on the day social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson went missing, and the immediate days...

BELEM, Brazil (AP): Battered by last month’s ferocious climate-fuelled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday’s United Nations climate talks to implore the rest of the world to stop talking and...

New York City-based charity Pencils4Kids has stepped in with relief support for the residents of Quickstep and Donegal in St Elizabeth, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. The organisation’s founder and CEO, Randy Griffiths,...

A senior official in the Ministry of Education says community colleges heavily damaged by Hurricane Melissa have received interim clean-up grants to help remove debris from their campuses. With concerns growing over the disruption facing students...

WESTERN BUREAU: Hanover Eastern Member of Parliament Andrea Purkiss has sharply criticised the level of government assistance reaching her constituency following the devastation caused by Category 5 Hurricane Melissa across western Jamaica. She...

WESTERN BUREAU: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for urgent international support to ensure Jamaica gets the fiscal breathing room it needs to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa. Mottley made the appeal during a CARICOM leaders’...

WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly one million Jamaicans have been affected and more than 150,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, prompting a major regional response led by Guyana, which has deployed Guyana Defence Force engineers to repair...

NEW YORK: As relief efforts intensify following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, shippers in the United States say they are now grappling with a shortage of barrels needed to send supplies to Jamaica. Several major Jamaican-owned...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting 11 cases of leptospirosis following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. According to Dr Karen Webster Kerr, principal medical officer and national epidemiologist, the cases are spread across St James,...

Jamaica’s multibillion-dollar rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Melissa must put the needs of persons with disabilities at the centre, the country’s chief disability advocate has urged. Thousands of disabled Jamaicans in the western parishes were...

A British university lecturer who attempted to adopt a Jamaican child with severe medical complications has lost his appeal, after the Court of Appeal upheld findings that he was unfit and unable to meet the child’s welfare needs. The ruling –...