Detectives attached to the Centre for the Investigations of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) have arrested and charged 52-year-old Oral Britton otherwise called 'Bishop', a minister of religion of Petersfield in Westmoreland...

Dancehall princess Shenseea has announced that she has a new manager, and immediately the question being asked is, where is Romeich? Romeich Major of Romeich Entertainment has guided Shenseea's career since she arrived on the scene a few years...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketed by more than 500% over the last week, the country's public health institute reported Tuesday. The surge follows the scrapping of almost all remaining...

Jamaica has recorded three more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 1,134. The deceased are a 59-year-old woman from St Ann, a 73-year-old man from St Catherine and a 70-year-old man from St James. The Health Ministry says one of the deaths......

The police have imposed a curfew in sections of Naggo Head in Portmore, St Catherine. The security measure took effect at 6 o'clock last evening and will remain in place until 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14. The boundaries of the curfew are...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Desmond McKenzie, says the Government has been proactive in getting emergency shelters across the island ready for the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season. "We are not going to make any...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it's not entirely clear the shot caused...

A distraught mother yesterday detailed the 10 minutes of horror to which her family was subjected after gunmen invaded her Sunlight Street, Maxfield Park, home and fired a barrage of shots, one of which hit her six-month old baby in the head....

"If yuh nuh have a gun in dis place, yuh caah survive. Da community yah naah guh get better so people just have to protect dem life!" These are the words of a youngster who appears no older than 16 years old. His violence-plagued community,...

The frustrating search for a teenage boy who was washed away in a section of the Great River in Hanover ended in tragedy on Monday morning, after his body was fished from the water. The deceased has been identified as 19-year-old Xavier Daley, of....

A retired dancehall artiste, DJ Neco Ranking, was murdered at his home in Friendship, Trelawny, on Monday morning. Ranking, whose given name is Glenford Henry, retired from the music business a few years ago and has since been operating a small......

Convinced that the Government is getting ready to introduce law that will make Sunday the designated day of worship, two Sabbath keepers have set about preparing persons to mount fierce resistance to this perceived plan. Vincent Hoo and Wilhelm......

With the reopening of the entertainment sector, the people of Rae Town in east Kingston are anticipating the restart of their local party 'Old Hits'. Rae Town is historically known for parties like Old Hits which started in 1982, one of the...

As the news team travelled about two minutes into Epping Farm, St Thomas, last week, we realised that even with a four-wheel drive vehicle, it would be impossible to manoeuvre the bad roads and had to settle for a parking spot below Raphael Brown'....

As with persons in many sectors, pan chicken vendors have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rickardo Eulett had a thriving business in the heart of Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth. However, with the COVID-19 protocols and nightly...

A leap of faith is how Jhannel Gayle described her decision to apply to New York's Columbia University, as she did not expect to be accepted to the Ivy League school to continue her studies in occupational therapy. But her faith was enough, as on.....

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC - The Grenada government says it will only allow fully vaccinated visitors to enter the country both at the air and seaports, as the island moves to introduces more measures aimed at curbing the spread of the...

HAVANA (AP) -- Large contingents of Cuban police patrolled the capital of Havana on Monday following rare protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis. Cuba's president said the...

The trial of the man accused of killing former Portland East Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield was this morning postponed to April 20 next year in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston. Peter Champagnie, the attorney-at-law who...

Jamaica has recorded 37 new cases of COVID-19, increasing the tally to 50,757. Of the new infections, 23 are women and 14 are men with ages ranging from two to 98 years. The figure for active cases has been moved to 9,237....