A decomposing body was today found in bushes near the Caymanas entrance to the North-South Highway in St Catherine. The deceased is yet to be identified. The discovery was made by passersby who raised an alarm. The police were called to the scene...
The Long Pond Distillery in Clark's Town, Trelawny is now fully up and running, providing employment and manufacturing rum for the local and export markets. The distillery, operated by National Rums of Jamaica (NRJ), suffered extensive damage...
The Government will be focusing on a Deposit Refund Scheme, backed by legislation, for plastic bottles. Providing an update on the ban of some single-use plastic packaging materials in the Senate on Friday, Minister without Portfolio in the...
The United States Embassy in Kingston has thrown its support behind a local initiative to raise awareness and provide counselling intervention for persons impacted by gender-based violence (GBV) in Jamaica. The US Embassy, Kingston provided grant...
Ian Lee Stewart is overjoyed to have a new place to call home. Hardly able to contain his happiness, he said the house will make a big difference as his former dwelling was leaking and falling apart. Stewart received a two-bedroom unit equipped...
LONDON: Even as the black/Caribbean community welcomed news that several persons had been included on this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list, there has been criticism of the award scheme. This year’s recipients include former professional...
The announcement that Jamaica has begun the process that could remove the Queen as head of state by 2025 was an early birthday present for the island, mere months away from celebrating its 60th year as an independent country. When the chief of...
WESTERN BUREAU: SEVERAL BUSINESS operators who attended this week’s eighth Annual International Conference and Exhibition (AICE) 2022 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in Rose Hall, St James, are praising it for the networking opportunities it...
A man who struck a deal and pleaded guilty to murdering Payless Car Mart operator Robert Mendez in 2014 has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. But John Jarrett will not be eligible for parole until he serves 15 years.
After two days of deliberations in which they reached verdicts on nearly all of the questions put before them, United States jurors in a civil trial who were deciding on sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday.
The RJRGLEANER Communications Group says the proposed payout to shareholders of 1834 Investments, whose businesses are to be acquired by Radio Jamaica Limited, has been revised. Radio Jamaica is a subsidiary of the group.
Former St Ann Chamber of Commerce president and owner of Evita's Italian Restaurant in Ocho Rios, Evita Myers, has died. Myers died Friday morning in Montego Bay, St James after ailing for some time. She was 79.
Attorney General Dr Derrick McKoy says the Government is "committed" to following the Constitution after a court ruling that regulations governing a 2018 state of emergency (SOE) in St James violated Jamaica's supreme law and a citizen's fundamental rights.
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says the government may have exposed taxpayers to payments of millions of dollars to citizens who were detained under states of emergency (SOE) regulations that the Supreme Court has ruled to be unconstitutional.
The Old Harbour Bay Police in St Catherine are probing the death of a man at his home in the community. It is being suspected that 63-year-old mason Delroy Reid took his own life. "Mi just get up and see him dead. I don't know...
The streets of Spanish Town in St Catherine were buzzing with sellers and commuters on Friday morning, as was customary before the outbreaks of gun violence earlier this week. Businesses were forced to close on Wednesday following a brazen daylight...
The brother accused of using a knife to cut the throat of his elder sibling in Rock Hall, St Andrew on Tuesday is now in police custody. St Andrew North police confirmed that the accused was held on Thursday. He was arrested by cops attached...
Residents and persons who travel through the parish of St Catherine are being urged by the security forces to have a valid form of identification on them at all times. The security forces say this is important as there are heightened operational...
A wanted man was arrested and an illegal gun was seized by the police in the Gregory Park area of Portmore, St Catherine this morning. Head of operations for the St Catherine South Police division Superintendent Hopton Nicholson says he...
The Supreme Court this morning upheld the challenge brought by St James resident Roshaine Clarke against the 2018 state of emergency imposed on the parish and declared the Emergency Powers Regulations unconstitutional. The court ruled that the...
A decomposed body of a man was found along a beach on Palisadoes Road in Kingston this morning. The discovery was made about 8 o'clock by a passerby. The corpse is in an advanced state of decomposition. Investigators have cordoned...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the provisions under the Constitution which govern the use of a state of public emergency need "clarification and redefinition". His comment follows the declaration of a State of Public Emergency for the...
Householders of 31 St John's Road in St Catherine have rejected claims that migratory residents from the violence-plagued community have sparked an upsurge of violence in Spanish Town.
Detectives assigned to the Kingston Western Division have charged a man for a double murder that was committed in February. Charged is 25-year-old Paul Dawson, otherwise called 'Little Paul', of Pink Lane, Kingston 14. He is accused of...
