A 17-year-old boy has been arrested and charged a following an incident along Sea Pathway, Phase 2, Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11 on Thursday, February 18, 2021. He was charged with shooting with intent, illegal possession of firearm and...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, the explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of...

Jamaica has pulled out of the World Athletics Relays which is set for Chorzow in Poland. The decision to withdraw from the May 1-2 championship event, is expected to be confirmed by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association shortly (JAAA).......

A man who attempted to rob an accountant along the busy commercial strip of William Street in Port Antonio, Portland is now in police custody. Reports are that the man snatched a bag containing money from the accountant and then ran on to Blake...

Jamaica has recorded 11 more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 738. Those who died on Monday are: * A 42-year-old man from Trelawny whose death was previously under investigation * An 88-year-old male from Trelawny * A 60-year-old woman...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported that of the more than 135,000 persons who received the first dose of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, only a few made an Event Supposedly Attributable to Vaccination or Immunisation (ESAVI) report....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is "praying the verdict is the right verdict" in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin and that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and...

LONDON -- The agency that regulates drugs for the European Union says a warning about rare blood clots should be added to labels for Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine. The European Medicines Agency says these rare blood disorders...

GRAND Cayman, Cayman Islands, CMC - The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Monday said that it would be paying out an estimated US$2.2 million for relief and recovery efforts following the eruption of the La Soufrie...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -Trinidad and Tobago has recorded a case of the Brazilian variant of COVID-19. The Ministry of Health stated that a sample was taken from a COVID-19 positive patient in the Mayaro County and was sent to the...

Detectives assigned to the St James Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 12-year-old who died as a result of a fire at her house in Salter's Hill, Johns Hall on Monday. She has been identified as 12-year-old...

Broadcaster Michael Sharpe has died. Sharpe, 65, joined the RJR newsroom in 1983. He was the news operations manager at the Jamaica News Network, a member of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. More details soon. We want to hear from you! Email us....

A St Mary man was left in his boxers by robbers who ordered him into a car and robbed him of his shorts. The victim, 23, was reportedly standing along Golf Road in Prospect when a car drove up. Police reports indicate that a man in the car...

A 12-year old girl is now dead and seven family members homeless, following a fire of unknown origin which completely destroyed her grandmother's home in Potosi district, Johns Hall, St James, on Monday. The child has been identified as Hemmecia.....

Meisha Cope, niece of Howard 'Macka' Bruce, was greeted with the most disappointing news on Monday morning that the 54-year-old had succumbed to his injuries after being hit by a bus last Saturday. Bruce's fate was in limbo since the accident.......

When Yvette Campbell got laid off from a cable company in 2008, after being employed for four years, she decided that it would be the last time she would work for someone else. She engaged herself in livestock farming, and it has been paying...

Three successive weekends of lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus might have had the desired effect, at least to some extent, but for some business persons, the lockdown also mean a slowdown in business. But that's not the case for Port....

Players in the business processing outsourcing (BPO) industry have been monitoring the actions of their employees who now work from home, but some workers feel their privacy is being invaded. One agent recently took to social media to complain...

Some residents in Seven Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew, said they will not be able to meet the deadline for relocation as ongoing work on a section of the South Coast Highway continues to move at a blistering pace. "Well, right now I am looking...

Senior wins lottery after forgetting his glasses A pensioner won over PS100,000 (approximately J$21.1 million) on the lottery after forgetting his glasses and not being able to choose his regular numbers. Dennis Fawsitt usually uses family...