WESTERN BUREAU: A chilling threat by her 14-year-old son that he will kill himself if she does not get him out of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre has been causing a Westmoreland woman great anguish as her twin sons allege they are being.....

About 12 customers of National Commercial Bank Jamaica (NCB) have lost approximately $18 million in a smishing and vishing fraud attack over the last 10 days. Dane Nicholson, NCB’s manager of special investigations in its Fraud Prevention Unit,.....

A Jamaican lecturer has been linked by scientific evidence to sexual and other criminal offences in the United States (US), according to American authorities who have requested his extradition. Russell McLean, a behavioural and social sciences...

Two sentences of life imprisonment were handed down on Wednesday to a Clarendon gangster who committed a double murder at age 16 and who was involved in a million-dollar heist at 17. Justice Ann-Marie Lawrence-Grainger hopes the confessed killer,.....

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Desmond McKenzie has signalled that persons who believe that dumping garbage in the nation’s drains and gullies will generate more jobs will be left sorely disappointed. “Not over my dead body...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr has said that a lack of adequate storage and transportation facilities have been causing Jamaica to lose almost a third of domestic food produced annually, valued at some $7 billion. He made the....

With 44 per cent of Jamaicans residing outside of urban centres, Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie says stronger focus will be placed on these areas to boost economic growth and generate more jobs. Through the...

Jamaica Zoo, where a lion recently ripped off the finger of a taunting employee, does not have a licence to operate as an attraction, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has confirmed. In fact, the state agency said that zoo owner Paul....

Two Jamaicans who reportedly acted as money couriers in a “sophisticated” international scam that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Colombian cartels are to be extradited to the United States (US), while a third....

If Nicole Williams could turn back the hands of time, she said she would not have engaged in daredevil driving that sparked a police chase across the Corporate Area last month which was captured in a viral video. Faced with humiliation and an...

WESTERN BUREAU: She was poised to ace all nine Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams and would have sat the first of them today. But Shevanae Besley drowned last Friday, days ahead of her 18th birthday. The 17-year-old Green Island High......

David Minott was remembered by academic staff and fellow students of Wolmer’s Boys’ School as an exemplary human being and a ‘man of God’ who never missed an opportunity to encourage or use his infectious smile to brighten the faces of other...

The Supreme Court is to rule on Friday whether it will grant an injunction order for a St James man to shut down his businesses – a restaurant, car rental accessories store and grocer – that are reportedly in breach of the Planning Act and Town ...

UVALDE, Texas (AP): An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the latest gruesome moment for a country scarred by a string of......

Citing its small footprint and underwhelming state, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that Nelson Mandela Park may be relocated to a more spacious venue befitting the honour of the late South African anti-apartheid agitator. The park,...

In blistering criticism of Mayor Norman Scott and the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, lawmaker Kerensia Morrison accused the local government authority of keeping her in the dark about the official parish Labour Day project in her constituency.....

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr is unfazed by a threat by his opposition counterpart, Lothan Cousins, to take the Government to task for not doing enough for the sector when Parliament sits today. Speaking at the People’s...

Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland has urged integrity watchdogs in the Caribbean to be resolute in the war against corruption, which she said undermined the social and economic fabric and was one of the biggest impediments......

Christopher McKay of Rhodes Hall in Kellits, Clarendon, is thanking God after surviving a motorcycle crash on Monday while he was volunteering. McKay, who was knocked down by a bike Monday morning as he painted a kerb, said he lost consciousness...

Randy Finnikin says that 23 years ago, God gave him a vision to build up the desolate areas surrounding what is today the Institute of Vocational and Professional Training (IVPT), the training arm of the St Catherine-based Spring Village...