TOKYO (AP) -- A physician representing a Japanese medical body warned Thursday that holding the postponed Tokyo Olympics in two months could lead to the spread of variants of the coronavirus. Dr Naoto Ueyama, chairman of the Japan Doctors...

Detectives from the Kingston Western Division are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of Dwayne Black, a 38-year-old businessman of a Luke Lane downtown, Kingston address. It is being reported that the deceased was...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell revealed that late reggae icon Bob Marley played a huge role in one of the most memorable moments of her life. Speaking with American disc jockey D-Nice on the most recent episode of her podcast, No Filter With Naomi, the....

Samuel E. Wright, the actor who was the voice of Sebastian the crab in Disney's The Little Mermaid, has died. He was 72. Wright played the role of the Jamaican crab, who was an adviser to King Triton in the famed 1989 film. According to the...

Major General Antony Anderson, the Police Commissioner has requested a full report into an incident involving member of parliament for St Catherine South Western Everald Warmington and cops from the St Catherine South Police Division. A video of...

Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) intends to train 1,000 new recruits this year and reach full capacity of 1,500 recruits in 2022 as the entity seeks to increase the number of law enforcement.....

Jamaica has recorded 79 new cases of COVID-19, increasing the national tally to 48,180. Of the new infections, 41 are women and 38 are men with ages ranging from one year to 95 years. A total of 2,097 tests were conducted. With the new cases, the......

LONDON -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected claims by his former chief aide that he botched Britain's coronavirus response and is unfit for office. Johnson denies an allegation by Dominic Cummings that his government oversaw tens...

The St James Police Division say they have seized one homemade shotgun and four rounds of ammunition in Farm Hill in the parish on Wednesday, May 27. One man was taken into custody in relation to this seizure. Reports are that about 7:00 a.m...

The Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) will be entering a partnership with the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI) to transport schoolchildren from Old Harbour and Linstead into Spanish......

Audrey-Lynn Williams and her son, Patrick 'Chello' Gentles, shared a tightly knit relationship which was broken suddenly last Sunday when the 19-year-old died in a motorcycle crash. Gentles, the last-born of four children for his mother, was so....

Foreign exchange (forex) trader Chavez Allen, who goes by the moniker 'Pajama Billionaire', has found himself before the courts, answering to the charge of breaching the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act. He appeared in the Kingston and St...

The father of the teen who is charged with murdering his six-year-old cousin is adamant that his son has never been a troublemaker. "Him and dem (relatives) good, everybody did good suh mi nuh know. Him never yet in trouble wid the law, a di...

Nicola Clarke, the woman who was set on fire allegedly by her jealous boyfriend in Great River, Hanover, last Wednesday, is expected to be flown to the US today for treatment. Th trip, which costs more than US$1 million, was made possible through....

"There is no child in Gordon Town to Craig Hill who don't get excited whenever they see 'Demi'," said Nichole, the older sister of 30-year-old businessman Demoy 'Demi' Foster, who was shot and killed on Tuesday. Nichole said that her brother, a......

A birth defect caused Charmonique Willis to lose both legs when she was just two years old. She was then fitted with prosthetic legs, which she last changed in 2009. The legs, she said, have been worn and torn over the last 12 years. The...

Sandrea Samuels, a 37-year-old resident of Salt Spring, St James, is desperately seeking assistance to pay for dialysis. Samuels, a former housekeeper who is now unemployed, currently undergoes dialysis treatment at a private facility, as she...

An American woman was yesterday fined for breaches under the Disaster Risk Management Act. Melanie Mitchell pleaded guilty to breaching the curfew order in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. The court heard that Mitchell was among a group.....

Train driver in trouble after toilet break A Japanese train driver faces disciplinary action for taking a toilet break. The unnamed bullet train driver asked a conductor, who did not possess the necessary licence, to man the train for several.....

People's National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell is strongly rejecting new allegations against him regarding sexual misconduct. Campbell, in a statement a short while ago, described the claims as baseless and scurrilous and...