The Government will commence implementing a comprehensive restructuring of public-sector compensation during the 2022/23 fiscal year. Governor General, His Excellency Sir Patrick Allen, said this will simplify the current complicated 325 salary...

A special operation by the police has led to the arrest of several alleged lottery scammers in Hartlands Estate in Priory, St Ann.

The Government will be pressing ahead with the development of several new and revised pieces of legislation in the 2022/23 fiscal year.

The body of a man was found near the Commodore Cemetery yesterday in Linstead, St Catherine after residents reported hearing several explosions. The man has been identified only as ‘Puddy,’ from the Commodore District in Linstead....

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says despite the numbers still being very high, coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and hospitalisations are beginning to decrease in some member countries. Speaking during PAHO's weekly COVID-19 digital...

The Morgan's Bridge police in Westmoreland have launched an investigation after armed thugs shot and killed a man outside the Grange Hill Basic School compound yesterday morning. The deceased has been identified as 26-year-old Jervain Lue,...

Attorney Isat Buchanan said that he is not surprised with the director of public prosecutions' (DPP) ruling in the case of his client Princess Nzinga King. Yesterday, the DPP, Paula Llewellyn, recommended that the policewoman accused of trimming.....

A curfew is now in place for sections of Seaview Gardens and Riverton City in the St Andrew South Division. The curfew began at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday and will remain in effect until 6:00 p.m., Friday, February 11. The boundaries of the curfew...

Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison said that it is "very possible" that Jamaicans who have been trafficked abroad may have become victims of organ harvesting. Gordon Harrison was responding to a question during the Lay Magistrates...

Carlton Francis and his common-law-wife Petrolina Blair found it "more convenient" to sleep at Coronation Market in downtown Kingston than their home at Lucky Valley district, Linstead, St Catherine. The shack that they have called home for more.....

Eighty-two-year-old Mary O'Conner Nelson, of Arthur Seat in Crofts Hill, Clarendon, has been living with a 'bad foot' since she was a child and seems to have no hope of it ever getting better. The condition of the senior citizen's foot is not for....

Residents in Denham Town, Kingston, are calling for more intervention in their community almost five years after the Government declared the area a zone of special operations (ZOSO). They say that while the removal of zinc fences has given them a....

An alleged relative of a St James man who was shot and killed after reportedly firing at the police is insisting that the cops, and the man's girlfriend don't know his real name. The Freeport police in Montego Bay reported that about 6 a.m.,...

An American resident who reportedly engaged police in a motor vehicle chase after she was pulled over for breaching the aspects of the Disaster Risk Management Act was fined yesterday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Alyssa Brown was....

Samara South, public affairs and government relations specialist at J. Wray and Nephew Limited, says that while the counterfeit liquor seized by authorities on February 7 did not impact sales, the company is highly concerned about the breaches of.....

Growing up in the Kingston 11 inner-city community of Seaview Gardens, Lucien Harrison said he was considered the 'odd child' and was often bullied because he was not interested in electronic devices and other gadgets like other boys his age....

The police corporal implicated in the haircutting incident involving Rastafarian Nzinga King. is not to face any criminal charges. The decision was handed down today Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn. The Independent...

Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, says the families in Olympic Gardens, Kingston, that were displaced because of fire in November 2018, will be the beneficiaries of a free housing solution, which is currently under construction. He made the...

Preliminary estimates from the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) are that damage to crops and livestock in St Mary and Portland, as a result of heavy rains during the period January 31 to February 1, is approximately $76.8 million,...

Two firearms and a quantity of ammunition have been seized by a joint police/military team during an operation in Salt Spring, St James this morning.