Four-year-old Nashawn Brown died at hospital yesterday, hours after he was beaten allegedly with a piece of stick by his stepfather for "eating slowly". His mother and step-father were later questioned by detectives...

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man told police officers he was "teaching it a lesson" when he tried to throw a live alligator he had stolen from a miniature golf course onto the roof of a beachside cocktail lounge,...

The Ministry of Education is encouraging parents and/or guardians to call its helplines as well as its regional offices in the event they need help in accessing and printing their child's Primary Exit Profile (PEP) 2021 results. The...

Jamaica has recorded two more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 1,157. The deceased are a 92-year-old female from Hanover and 68-year-old female from St Ann. Meanwhile, there were 85 new cases with ages ranging from 65 days...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry will replace the country's interim prime minister to honour the wishes of the country's slain president, an official told The Associated Press on...

Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, has informed that there are plans to establish a Specialised Operations branch in St James, to help curb crime and violence in the parish. "Earlier on, that was part of the plan, it got...

A well-placed source at the Hunts Bay Police Station has detailed how members of the police's Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau (IPROB) set up a sting operation to arrest a police corporal on Saturday afternoon after he had.....

Investigators assigned to the St Andrew South Police Division have listed several men as persons of interest because they believe they can assist them with some ongoing investigations in the division. The police are asking the men to make them...

Commanding officer for the St Andrew South Police Division, Superintendent Kirk Ricketts, has promised the lawmen will be more mobile as they look to stem the violent incidents. "We have even changed some of the checkpoints from being just a...

Otavia Smith is beaming with pride as she is on her way to her school of choice, Denbigh High School, after passing her Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. She mastered both the literacy and numeracy exams and performed better than 81 per cent of.....

Jaheim Bogle, of Arnett Gardens, St Andrew, was considered to be the most promising among the children in his community. Unfortunately, the former Iris Gelly Primary School student will not be able to fulfil his potential. He died approximately 8....

Shantoy Ellis is an ambitious 12-year-old from Waterhouse, St Andrew, who dreams of owning a fleet of hotels. The St Patrick's Primary School student got her exceptional Primary Exit Profile (PEP) results last Thursday, and is on her way to the.....

Nickoy Steele was a picture of jubilation as he held one of the 40 tablet computers donated to four St Mary-based primary schools by Positive Jamaica Foundation last Friday. Steele, 32, is a single parent of two students of the Jackson Primary...

A St James man, who reportedly cut his grandfather's hand and hit him in the head during a confrontation in March, got off with a stern warning last Friday, after the complainant asked the St James Parish Court to show him mercy. Tico Johnson, of....

In the 16 months since the start of the pandemic, president of the Hope Pastures Citizen Association, Michael Williams, says this is the most peace his community has ever got. Prior to the lockdown of the entertainment industry last March,...

Vere United continued their unbeaten run in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), scoring a 3-1 win over Clarendon rival Humble Lion at the UWI/JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence on Sunday. Ricardo Messam (27th and 57th) led the way for...

A Nevada woman was arrested for breaking into a dental office for stealing cash and pulling out more than a dozen teeth from an unconscious patient, police said. Laurel Eich allegedly told the Washoe County sheriff's...

The countdown for the Tokyo Olympics has already begun but there's something else the athletes will have to be mindful of apart from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: cardboard beds. In an effort to keep athletes focused on their...

Jamaica has recorded two more COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the tally to 1,155. The deceased are a 42-year-old male from Hanover and 70-year-old male from St Ann. One additional death is under investigation, moving that figure to 104. One...

TOKYO (AP) -- Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday. Organisers confirmed the positive tests on Sunday but didn't...