Three men were shot and killed, and three other persons, including two bystanders, injured after gunmen carried out a daylight attack on occupants of a Toyota Mark X motor vehicle, in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday. Commuters and motorists were....

The midday sun was scorching. Stacey-Ann Samuels had just taken a break from her online teaching duties. Along with her relatives Coleen McLeod and Diana Daley-Downer, Samuels was on her way to check on her pigs. Barefooted, the women walked...

Lisa Hanna has suggested that the Government find a way to take the classrooms to students, who have been severely disadvantaged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The St Ann South East member of parliament (MP), while speaking during...

Despite welcoming plans to improve infrastructure in and around the Fleet Street Housing Scheme in Southside, Central Kingston, residents hope they are not just empty promises. They are also calling on Donovan Williams, the first-time MP who won.....

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, in making the disclosure in Parliament yesterday, said that given the nature of gangs in Jamaica, these 32 gangs, with their various alliances, are likely to have spawned anywhere from 64 to 120 sub-...

Some 30,000 persons have received $10,000 each under the Conditional Cash Transfer for the Vaccinated Grant. This was disclosed by Information Minister Fayval Williams at Post-Cabinet Press Briefing on Wednesday. In July, the Government decided......

Jamaicans who are scared of needles or reluctant to go through the process of taking two COVID vaccine jabs are better suited to try the equally efficient Johnson and Johnson vaccine according to Dr Melody Ennis. "At this point, persons do have a....

Police constable Richard Plummer was today charged for the July 2017 assault of a taxi operator in St.Ann. Plummer appeared before the St. Ann Parish Court, by way of summons, to answer to charges of assault occasioning bodily...

One man has been arrested in connection with the seizure of a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol, a magazine and eleven 9mm rounds of ammunition in the Cassava Piece community, St. Andrew this morning. Reports from the Constant Spring police are that...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- African health officials are optimistic that the world's first malaria vaccine endorsed by the World Health Organization will "dramatically change" the way the continent of 1.3 billion people fights the...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government said Thursday that it is to relax travel rules further next week, a move that will open up many long-distance holiday destinations to travelers for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus...

The United Kingdom will recognise Jamaica's COVID vaccination card starting next Monday, reports the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Fully vaccinated travellers will then be able to avoid quarantine and will only be required to take a PCR...

A five-year-old girl is now dead after she was hit by a stray bullet while asleep at her home in the New Haven, St Andrew. The shooting reportedly happened after 1 o'clock this morning. She has been identified as Denique 'Den Den'...

Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 214 new COVID-19 cases from 1,470 samples tested, increasing total confirmed cases to 85,475 with 29,132 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 17.7%. Of the new...

Detectives assigned to the Mandeville Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB), are seeking the public's assistance in identifying a man whose body was found at a tyre shop on the Royal Flat main road in Manchester on Thursday morning....

(AP) - Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 in what would be a major expansion that could combat an alarming rise in serious infections in youngsters and help schools stay open. If.....

A Clarendon family is furious and demanding answers after an ambulance in which their relative was travelling crashed last Thursday. Hazel Beckford, 72, of Kemps Hill in the parish, died on Sunday. Relatives are adamant that Beckford died as a...

Standing in front of his smashed two-bedroom board dwelling, Garnet Johnson reflected on his life with tears flowing from his eyes. "l always dream of becoming a big chef. I would like to own a restaurant or something ... but really and truly,...

President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Winston Smith, says the association will stand by its members' individual choices to get vaccinated or not. Smith was addressing a candlelight ceremony held yesterday for teachers who have......

Director of Family Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr Melody Ennis, is renewing her calls for more persons to get vaccinated as the Government continues its push to inoculate at least 65 per cent of the population by March.....