The Oracabessa Police are investigating a suspected case of suicide in Jacks River, Crescent in Oracabessa, St Mary on Thursday, June 17. Dead is 60-year-old Leric Silvera of a Bonnie Gate in the parish. Reports are that at about 6:30 a.m.,...

The Caymanas Police say they have seized one magazine containing five 9mm cartridges in Hamilton Gardens, Portmore, St Catherine on Friday, June 18. Reports are that about 9:52 p.m., a police team responded to calls that a party was being held in......

THORNTON, N.H. (AP) -- Surveillance video helped police get to the bottom of a series of vehicle break-ins in town of Thornton. Home security footage captured the bandit -- a black bear -- opening the door of a vehicle and then...

The head of the Centre for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), says a clinical trial on a COVID-19 vaccination for children is currently underway and is progressing satisfactorily. According Dr Meiby de la...

Jamaica on Friday recorded three COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 1,031. Those who have died are: - a 71-year-old woman from St Ann - a 37-year-old woman from St Mary - a 55-year-old male from Kingston and St Andrew One...

The country's early-childhood institutions have benefited from much-needed support to better enable them to operate within the health and safety guidelines stipulated by the Government to reduce transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19)....

More than 220,000 Jamaicans have received at least one dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Of this number, 51,908 persons are fully vaccinated while 168,758 have received their first dose of the vaccine. Director of Family...

A confessed cocaine user was sentenced to two years' imprisonment when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday for slashing a man and stealing his phone. Tamoo Lindsay, 45, pleaded guilty to robbery with aggravation and.....

A Hanover farmer, who is known for benevolence, has been left destitute after a massive fire destroyed her farm earlier this year. Nadine Watson-Bowen and her husband had been living off their farm in Miles Town for years, but the January fire...

Kevin Hart can make us laugh and cry, it seems, even if the vehicle was practically engineered to bring on the waterworks. In Fatherhood, that drops on Netflix today, he plays a new dad whose wife dies shortly after childbirth and he's left...

Ashley Crossdale, 26, who lived on Delacree Lane in Kingston 11, died in a most bizarre manner on Sunday, June 13, five days after doctors discovered that the child she was carrying perished in her womb. A sister who gave her name as Gizzy, said.....

Disbarred attorney Jennifer Messado has yet again found herself before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to answer to fraud charges. Messado straggled to the prisoner's dock yesterday and hung her head as allegations were read against her......

A St Elizabeth farmer who lost 17 heads of goat in one night has vowed to continue in agriculture, despite the major setback. Matthew Clarke, of Treasure Beach in the parish, said the goats were found dead in his field on June 4. He estimated...

Icema Richardson could not have asked for a better partner than Lucan Johnson, and Akili Chambers could not have found a more supportive stepfather. Johnson, 39, came into their lives after Chambers' father died. The boy, who is physically...

Residents at Dump in St Mary are worried about the possibility of rodent infestation due to a pile-up of uncollected garbage in their community. "Unless they come and collect the garbage that is piling up, rats will take us over," said Tadrea...

Students and teachers of the Hall's Delight and Westphalia primary schools in East Rural St Andrew now have access to modern sanitary facilities. The pit latrines at the institutions were replaced with new sanitation blocks, with flush toilets,......

While journeying through Duff House in Manchester, it is hard not to notice the vast fields of fruits, vegetables and condiments under cultivation. Farming for the residents here is serious business. Walter Samuda and Simon Christian, an uncle-......

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, announcing that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the 150 days since he took office. Biden...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that the road through the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine will be closed this Sunday, June 20, 2021. NWA communication and customer services manager, Stephen Shaw, says that the works to be undertaken on......

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, is appealing for continued adherence to the COVID-19 health and safety measures during the summer period. "We are going into a danger period...