An irate Trelawny dog owner is threatening to sue a policeman who shot his pooch in his yard last month. The dog, a pit bull named Marley, died weeks later from her injuries. "Mi a sue out him 'wara wara'. I'm taking legal action for what he...

A distraught Jane* said that she never imagined a routine trip to the market in downtown Kingston last Saturday would have resulted in the death of her friend Kevon Mitchell. Mitchell, 41, a plumber of Havendale, St Andrew, was killed moments...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest indication yet that his Government, at some point, will make it mandatory for persons to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday, Holness said that the...

The plight of a once comfortable Jamaican, who is now struggling to make ends meet, was shared in Parliament yesterday by one representative as he sought to demonstrate how difficult life has become for many Jamaicans since the pandemic. Julian......

Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson says the police have turned over the investigation into the alleged forced trimming of a Rastafarian teen to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). In August, 19-year-old...

After being caught on camera at a party that was held on a no-movement day, Floyd Green yesterday resigned from his post as the island's agriculture minister. Green will, however, remain as member of parliament for South West St Elizabeth. Green.....

Students and staff at Pondside Primary and Infant School in Hanover will enjoy more modern and spacious surroundings when face-to face classes resume, following the completion of infrastructure upgrading of the infant department at a cost of $25.4....

An opposition lawmaker yesterday called on the Government to consider utilising emergency procurement procedures in a bid to get tablet computers in the hands of children of poor Jamaicans. The Government has been delivering tablets to students......

Joseph Patterson, president of the United Independent Congress (UIC), is planning to lead a march on Gordon House next week to push for the resignation of all 63 members of the House of Representatives. Patterson has been organising marches,...

It is minutes to 11 a.m. on Tuesday -- the last of three no-movement days this week. A teenage girl and her younger brother emerge from a yard on Barnes Lane off Maxfield Avenue, in St Andrew. They crossed the road to the community's standpipe,.....

Two men have been arrested in connection with the seizure of a firearm and several rounds of ammunition, during a joint police/ military operation in Quarry Hill, Spanish Town in St. Catherine on Wednesday. Reports from the Spanish Town...

A 40-bed mobile field hospital was officially opened at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon on Wednesday.

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 492 new COVID-19 cases from 1,564 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 77,989 with 25,334 being active. This brings the country's positivity rate to 33.7%. Of the new cases,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration is considering requiring vaccinations against COVID-19 and contact tracing of international visitors after the U.S. revamps current broad restrictions that bar many foreigners from traveling to the U...

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese health officials announced Thursday that more than 1 billion people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the world's most populous country, or about 72% of its 1.4 billion people. Through Wednesday, 2.16...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams, says that 73,880 children, aged 12 to 18, have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to date. She made the disclosure during a statement to the House of Representatives on Wednesday....

John Brown*, a St Catherine man who said that he was being tormented for years by the demonic forces, has hailed the works of an obeah man, who he said chased away the duppies. Brown said that he paid $100,000 to the obean man and got value for.....

Having lost both her legs to complications associated with diabetes, Cara Moore of Yallahs in St Thomas is adamant that she will not allow her physical disability to defeat her. The 36-year-old single mother of three operates a chicken business.....

Jamaicans will have to pay more for their light bills, starting this month, after the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) granted an increase to the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS). The OUR's decision took effect on September 1 and...

Jasmine Gillepsie was a picture of despair as she sat at the gate to her Frog City house yesterday. She had a few avocados in a container, hoping that passers-by would purchase from her. Save for the sunlight peeping from behind the clouds, there....