A judge was shocked when it was reported that a thief stole a woman's earrings while she was still wearing them. Kenardo Gardener pleaded guilty to larceny when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. It is reported...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and its western regional arm, Western Parks and Markets (WPM) Waste Management Limited have launched a solid waste-reduction programme in the community of Chambers Pen in Hanover. The pilot...

Jamaica on Thursday recorded 117 new COVID-19 cases from 1,417 samples tested, increasing the total confirmed cases to 89,466 with 27,856 being active. The country's positivity rate is currently 11.5%. Of the new cases...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Seven more bodies have been recovered from a high-rise apartment building that collapsed while under construction in Lagos, bringing the death toll to 43, a Nigerian Red Cross official said. Among the dead is Femi...

The Culture, Health, Arts Science and Education (CHASE) Fund has provided $36.5 million in scholarships to tertiary-level students pursuing undergraduate degrees in early-childhood education for the 2021/22 academic year. Scholarship recipients are....

For her 100th birthday celebration, Muriel 'Miss Birdie' Crosse sang and danced at the Church of the Nazarene in Aberdeen, St Elizabeth. One could tell that she was enjoying every bit of it. In fact, she did not miss a beat as she belted out one......

A former member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) was fined for illegal possession of ammunition when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. The 21-year-old pleaded guilty to the offence. His attorney, Kymberli...

Several residents of Brighton Avenue in Riverton Meadows are on tenterhooks as they face the possibility of eviction from the place they have called home all their lives. The residents have been told that the lands they now occupy are owned by...

The ex- member of the One Don Gang testified in court yesterday that the gang's reputed leader, Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, had paid for one of the three Android phones that he (the witness) used to secretly record conversations with gang members for.....

Two women who were reportedly involved in a brawl along Maxfield Avenue in August pleaded not guilty when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Tameka Nickleford and Ann-Marie Cunningham pleaded not guilty to charges....

Vendors in downtown Kingston say they are seeing an increase in persons shopping for uniforms and school shoes following a recent announcement by Prime Minister Andrew Holness that 45,000 primary school students will return to the classrooms on...

Two St Andrew men who breached the nightly curfew were slapped with hefty fines when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Craig Collins and Anthony Smith pleaded guilty to breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act....

A 21-year-old man was sentenced to a nine months' imprisonment yesterday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Dezon Berry pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property and house-breaking with intent. The court heard....

The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has hit back at the parliamentary opposing People's National Party (PNP), which has decried its management of the environment. "Significant strides have been made in the environmental management of the...

Leaky toilet leaves astronauts in smelly situation Astronauts heading home from the International Space Station will have to cross their legs due to a leaky toilet. Four crew members who are due to return to Earth this month have been informed....

The Jamaica Constabulary Force reports that a team of officers assigned to the St. Andrew South Division seized a 9mm pistol with a magazine containing eleven 9mm rounds of ammunition during an operation on St. Joseph's Road in Kingston...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain granted conditional authorisation on Thursday to the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19 so far. It also is the first country to OK the treatment from drugmaker Merck, although it wasn't immediately...

Frontier Airlines' inaugural flight from Orlando, Florida, to Montego Bay, St. James, landed at the Sangster International Airport on Tuesday (November 2). A total of 68 passengers arrived on the plane to mark the start of three weekly non-...

Popular dancehall entertainer Popcaan, whose given name is Andre Sutherland, was this morning fined a total of $10,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of the Road Traffic Act in the Yallahs Traffic Court in St Thomas The entertainer...

The Ministry of National Security will be rolling out the pilot of its electronic traffic ticketing system in late November. The e-ticketing application is expected to replace the existing manual traffic ticketing system used by the Jamaica...