A local family is praying that Jamaican and international authorities will expedite the search for a missing five-year-old girl who has been separated from her mother while crossing the dangerous United States (US) border through Mexico. The past.....

Communications surveillance is being used by the police and their international partners to intercept organised crime, including the shipment of illegal guns, but Jamaica’s police chief has sought to downplay the scale of its use in intelligence.....

A day after a widely circulated video featuring a classroom bust-up sparked national outrage, a high-ranking police commander has warned of a wave of student indiscipline and violence taking over the city. Senior Superintendent Michael Phipps,...

One small victory for a Christian school family can serve as inspiration for an entire nation. That’s the message from principal of Emmanuel Christian Academy, Adjoa Dawes, following Saturday’s resounding victory after two gruelling days of...

Attorney-at-law Isat Buchanan has said that judges are the best persons to determine bail, which is a constitutional right. He was responding to an announcement on Tuesday by Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte that......

The Holness administration has signalled that the journey to break ties with the British monarchy and establish Jamaica as a republic will be completed by the time voters go to the polls to elect a new government. This is the first time that the...

Days into the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, residents of Weise Road in Bull Bay, St Andrew, are reiterating desperate pleas for the repair of a damaged culvert and the shoring up of the Chalky River with gabion baskets. They insist that the...

WESTERN BUREAU: A man is in custody and three AR-15 rifles and two Smith...

One of the six alleged members of the Westmoreland-based King Valley Gang who were freed in July 2020 was on Tuesday shot to death during an alleged gun battle with criminals in Grange Hill. Copeland Sankey, otherwise called ‘Tupac’, met his......

Forecasting “a very turbulent and rocky economic time” for Jamaica, former Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has said that the Government and Opposition must put aside political posturing to prevent an already crisis-weary economy from collapsi...

When a familiar car pulled up to the emergency unit at the Spanish Town Hospital on Sunday night, Kirk Barrett’s sister did not anticipate that she would be in for the shock of her life as her 21-year-old brother was among four men killed in a...

Caribbean Cement Company (CCC), the sole manufacturer of cement in Jamaica, plans to shell out $1.28 billion in dividends in its first payment in 17 years. The recommendation follows a board meeting on May 26 and will be placed before shareholders.....

VERE, Clarendon: Eighty-year-old Vere resident Ruthlyn Viola Edwards Francis can still remember the sense of excitement and anticipation she felt in the countdown leading up to Jamaica’s Independence on August 6, 1962. Then a primary-school teache...

Students of the Excelsior Primary and Infant School were asked to stay home on Monday as the institution grappled with news of the death of Vice-Principal Shirley Pinnock over the weekend. Grieving colleagues were seen huddled in small groups...

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte, QC, is expected today to unveil the Holness administration’s legislative plans to break with the British monarchy and to establish Jamaica as a republic. With the establishment o...

BELFIELD, St Mary: Opposition Leader Mark Golding on Sunday chastised the Government for what he deemed its failure to protect Jamaicans from the spiralling cost of living, including escalating food and gas prices. He said that despite urging Prime....

A man accused of being among a group of heavily armed attackers who stormed a home in 2016, killing a resident and wounding his stepdaughter, was freed of murder and gun charges in the Home Circuit Court on Monday. The defendant, Wayne Allen,...

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote on Monday, securing enough support from his Conservative Party to remain in office despite a substantial rebellion that leaves him a weakened leader with an uncertain......

The search for 77-year-old Derrick ‘Reds’ Lindsay, who mysteriously vanished from his home on Saturday, ended in sorrow on Monday after burnt remains believed to be his were discovered in bushes in Cavaliers, St Andrew. A nephew is now being sou...

Taxpayers are footing the bill of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s bid for the post of secretary general of the Commonwealth, it was confirmed on Monday. In a press statement, Johnson Smith stated that “travel...