A 15-year-old suspect is being sought in the shooting death of his six-year-old cousin in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Jadaine Miller, who lived in the same yard as the accused. Reports by the police.....

Following a plethora of queries by some government members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as to why Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis was absent from an exit interview by auditors from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service in...

A bizarre twist of incidents in Red Hills, St Andrew, on Monday, left a bloody trail as investigators processed a crime scene twice following a early-morning multimillion-dollar robbery at a petrol station. The gas station operator has been left...

A group of teenage boys who recently expressed a desire to represent Jamaica in the Olympics will be given an opportunity to train as divers for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. The boys, who live in Port Royal in East Kingston, have been.....

The trek to catch water at the pumping facility in Luna, St Mary, is a treacherous journey downhill through a private property. One step forward, two steps back, the residents said, as the pipes leading from the pump house were fixed just a month.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis was fined $150,000 or 35 days in jail when he appeared for sentencing before the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday, having previously pleaded guilty to breaches of the.....

There has been an outpouring of grief among councillors in the Portmore Municipal Corporation following the death of the Greater Portmore East Division standard-bearer, Yvonne McCormack, last Friday. The passing of McCormack, who had been serving......

Opposition senators have called on their government colleague, Kamina Johnson Smith, to release what she describes as harassing and threatening emails she received from former Senator A.J. Nicholson. Pointing to the statement Johnson Smith made in.....

After the father of her child moved out of her home in August Town in April 2019, Brittany Burke* changed all her locks. Not even her mother, who lives in the same yard, had a key. But since then, she has been haunted by an obsessive stalker who...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas escalates in the Middle East, Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs Lisa Hanna has urged the United Nations (UN) to move swiftly to bring a resolution to the violence that has claimed the lives of nearly......

Canadian resident Garfield Patterson says that for the past five months, someone has been using his picture on a Facebook page they created and has been targeting his friends for money and asking for his personal contact information. Patterson,...

Raam Naraysingh, 50, was diagnosed with mild hypertension last September. It came as a shocker to him as at previous doctor’s visits, he was encouraged to continue on the same trajectory, as his readings were normal. The former technical service...

Although it took more than a decade for Rita Marley, the widow of music icon Bob Marley, and his 11 children to get control of his musical assets, they “never give up the fight”, which is the message portrayed in one of Marley’s songs entitled...

Opposition Senator Damion Crawford has proposed that a portion of the general consumption tax (GCT) collected by the Government be used to pay pensions. In his proposal to scrap the current National Insurance Scheme (NIS) contributory system,...

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of his eight-year-old stepson. The sentence was handed down on Dwayne Thomas in the St Catherine Circuit Court on May 14. When Thomas appeared before Justice Courtney Daye,.....

The mother of two children who were savagely chopped and left to die is pleading for help for the teenagers, who still bear physical and psychological scars. The sentencing of 24-year-old Timothy Tulloch, who pleaded guilty, was postponed on May 10....

A day after Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith named former Senator A.J. Nicholson as the People’s National Party (PNP) official who sent her threatening and harassing emails in 2014 and 2018, Nicholson has called her out, challenging.....

In the event the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) has forgotten, it is now a month since it promised that its “requisite organs would promptly meet” to discuss George Wright’s membership in the party and to determine its “next steps” once a...

A provision in Jamaica’s charity laws has left the $100 million raised three years ago through the Shaggy...

With very limited opportunities available to improve their lives in the poverty-stricken communities of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, the scores of school leavers in the area are being lured into a life of crime and gang violence. Grange Hill, which......