A St Catherine mechanic has been charged after allegedly using his motor vehicle to hit a police officer who attempted to stop him for an alleged traffic breach in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew on Wednesday. Charged with assault occasioning grievous...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 12:12 PM
United States President Donald Trump said Saturday he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all NATO countries stopped buying oil from Russia and placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum. Trump posted...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 12:02 PM
A Clarendon labourer has been charged with multiple firearm-related offences after three men were shot and injured during a gun attack at a business place in neighbouring Manchester in March. The accused is 42-year-old Miggael Cole, otherwise...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 11:57 AM
Police in St Catherine are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl during a break-in at her home on Thursday. The Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse is leading the probe, which is being...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 11:43 AM
A St Elizabeth farmer, who is a licensed firearm holder, has been charged over the discharge of his weapon during a dispute with another man in his community earlier this year. The accused has been identified as a 27-year-old from Hounslow...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 11:36 AM
The police have charged two teen boys over the theft of cash from a house in Temple Hall, St Andrew, between August 18 and 20. The two, who are both 15, will not be named as they are children. According to a police statement issued on Saturday,...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 11:26 AM
A taxi operator was shot dead late Friday night after two men posing as passengers reportedly attacked him during a trip in Portmore, St Catherine. The unidentified driver, who was operating a Toyota Probox motor car, was killed after he...
SINCE FEBRUARY, the Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) has been giving access to the public to its exhibition, ‘African to Jamaican: Music and Creolized Black Culture’, in its main gallery situated inside the Institute of Jamaica at Tower Street, downtown...
‘Lights, Camera, Legacy’, was a powerful reminder to the 2025 Carlton Alexander Memorial Bursary recipients, as they were encouraged to step out into the spotlight, during the 35th staging of the awards ceremony, held at the GraceKennedy offices...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 12:06 AM
The latest general election witnessed a historic third term for Andrew Holiness and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), overcoming Mark Golding and the People’s National Party (PNP) – the points of contestation surrounding the proliferating living...
Published:Saturday | September 13, 2025 | 12:05 AM
The Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA), University of Technology, has launched Jamaica’s first indoor mobile skatepark which is a fully transportable facility, equipped with a professional mini ramp and street course, designed to bring...
TORONTO: A Jamaican-led men’s health interest and prostate cancer support group has chosen September, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, to offer a scholarship to black medical students at the new Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of...
Divisional Commander for the St James Police, Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, is encouraging residents of the parish to continue partnering with the police to sustain the significant reduction in crime and further lower the murder rate in...
The attorney for Mayor of Spanish Town, Norman Scott, says his client maintains his innocence after criminal charges were laid against him in relation to a clash at a polling station in St Elizabeth on election day, September 3. In a media...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is alerting members of the public to the unauthorised and fraudulent use of the image of Labour Minister Pearnel Charles Jr by two TikTok accounts to promote an alleged overseas employment scam. The...
Forty-year-old Giovannie Skeen, otherwise called ‘Mother Love’, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in the case in which he was accused of threatening to engage in political violence. The vendor from Marlborough District, Balaclava, St...
The hearing of the case against bauxite company UC Rusal for alleged environmental breaches is set to continue in the St Catherine Parish Court on October 2. At Thursday's hearing, the Crown's first Witness, Jahneil Williams of the National...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Mario formed Friday off the Pacific coast of Mexico and was expected to bring wind, rain and possible flash flooding, forecasters said. Mario was described as “mini” in the National Hurricane Center’s morning advisory...
The police have charged Mayor of Spanish Town, Norman Scott, with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious destruction of property arising from an incident at a polling station in St Elizabeth on the day of the general election. Scott...
A judge at the St Catherine Parish Court today imposed conditions on the station bail granted to a Spanish Town woman charged with fraud on allegations that she submitted fraudulent documents to a high school while applying for a teaching position...
After two years of battling stage two osteosarcoma (bone cancer), 18-year-old Rihanna Golding has lost her fight. Golding passed away on Thursday afternoon at Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James, just a week shy of her 19th birthday on...
The man accused in the Charlie Kirk assassination had earlier expressed to family his opposition to the viewpoints of the conservative activist, the authorities said Friday in announcing an arrest in a targeted killing that raised fresh alarms...
The police in St James are investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was found dead inside a bathroom at his home in Lilliput on Thursday. Twain Skyers was reportedly found hanging from the shower with an electrical cord around his neck....
Just over $4.6 million was collected by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) during five property tax collection drives held in St Andrew between June and August 2025. Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Andrew Swaby, made the...
The police in Portmore, St Catherine have charged the teen girl who was taken into custody over the fatal stabbing of a teen boy during a dispute in their community of Beverly Flat in Newland. The 14-year-old girl has been charged with murder. A...
