Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Floyd Green says the National Identification System (NIDS) card will replace the need for the identification service of a justice of the peace (JP). Green, who has responsibility for...

Jamaica's foreign exchange market has remained relatively stable since the start of the year. Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Richard Byles, says this partly reflects actions taken by the BOJ, through its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), in...

UVALDE, Texas (AP) -- An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing 14 children, one teacher and injuring others, Gov. Greg Abbott said, and the gunman was dead. It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade...

Following the injury of a team member by a lion last week, management at the Jamaica Zoo says the worker is recovering from what - in light of the circumstances - can be described as relatively minor injuries. The zoo also says steps have been...

A male teacher from Clarendon was arrested last weekend after a 14-year-old girl who had been reported missing, was found hiding in his home by the police. According to the police, the operation was based on intelligence they received about the...

The saying that 'a dog is a man's best friend' was real for Peter Perry, owner of Perry's Funeral Home, as he laid his pooch Ringo to rest yesterday. The funeral was held at the funeral home's Jobs Lane, Spanish Town, parlour in St Catherine. The....

Nicola Patterson always knew that her daughter Shenadde Francis, who was diagnosed with a chronic illness at age five, could be taken from her at an early age, but was still unprepared for the loss. Shenadde, 18, passed away on April 22 after a......

Three men are in custody pending further investigations following the seizure of a firearm and an assortment of ammunition during a joint police-military operation on Hemmings Way in Brook Valley, Kingston 20, last Saturday. Reports are that...

A 24-year-old dance teacher has been charged with murder following altercations at a dance on Sunday, May 8. Faraji Elliott of Boscobel, St Mary, is charged with killing Jermaine Barrington in Stewart Town, also in the parish. Reports are that...

Government representatives and corporate entities partnered to upgrade the Charles Gordon Market in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday. The market was selected as the parish project for Labour Day by the St James Municipal Corporation (STJMC). The....

The spirit of volunteerism was alive and well in Little London, Westmoreland, on May 23 as teachers and students joined a large group of volunteers to erect a much-needed bus stop at the gate of the high school in the area. From as early as 7:30.....

Work started yesterday on the construction of public bathrooms in Junction, St Elizabeth, which will provide sanitary convenience for residents and visitors to the town. Representatives from the St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation and other state.....

Like so many other things in the past few years, eyelash extensions seem to have got far larger and more colourful. But one lash stylist on Princess Street in downtown Kingston says embracing colourful eyelash extensions is not a new phenomenon.....

Two men died from injuries they sustained in a motor vehicle accident which occurred along a section of the Rosehall main road in St James, on Sunday night. According to the Coral Gardens police, shortly after 11:00 pm, the driver of a white...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that Jamaicans will once again be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and combat the current fifth wave of the pandemic the island is experiencing. Holness emphasised that...

Lloyd Brown extends his hand to his wife Joyce as she takes a seat beside him on the verandah of their Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11 home. She playfully nudges him and, for a minute or two, the elderly couple joke with each other. The Browns are.....

Jameal Mendez Sr says that his Father's Day wish is to be reunited with his son who went missing from their Rasta Corner home in Free Town, Clarendon, last Thursday. "Dat a mi greatest wish. Mi would a love that fi Father's Day. Mi would a love.....

Local advocate Derrick 'Black X' Robinson says that although he has lost his larynx or voice box to stage four cancer, he will not be silenced and will continue on his mission to make Chief Tacky a national hero as soon as his health is stable....

Though she has been separated from her family most of her life, 20-year-old Sahanie Brown is motivated to succeed by the thought of bringing them together. On Wednesday, Brown, a second-year business administration student at the University of...

Herbert Williams has been making furniture since he was 15 years old and said that his decision to learn cabinetmaking more than three decades ago was one of the best he has ever made. Williams, who operates Mop Head One Stop in his home town......