A 15-year-old schoolgirl and a man she was traveling with were taken into custody on Monday after an illegal gun was recovered from her school bag. The police say they are to be questioned and later charged. It is reported that personnel attached......

WPM Waste Management Limited is partnering with several stakeholders to clean the Montego Bay Fisherman's Beach on Wednesday (June 8), which is being observed as World Oceans Day. WPM's Customer Relations Officer, Sharnon Williams, told...

Thirty-four-year-old Kingston resident Errol ‘Coolie Man’ Williams has been charged with several offences, following a shooting incident that left one dead and two injured in Johnson Pen, St Catherine.

On Sunday night, a female security guard on duty at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine was heading up a flight of stairs when she recognised a car from her community speeding towards the accident and emergency section. She dashed towards...

If Robert Finzi-Smith has his way, the police would stop and search any motorcycle on which two males are travelling. At the same time, the security consultant would crush motor vehicles in which fugitives are found, and seize houses belonging to....

District Constable Troy Lewis' eyes gleamed as he recalled the first time he set foot on the ferry that used to operate between downtown Kingston and Port Royal. His school, Norman Gardens All-Age, hosted a trip to the historic city. It was not......

For about three decades, former ferry operator George 'Washy' Grant enjoyed an envied bird's eye view of the Kingston Harbour, as he made a career transporting goods and passengers from downtown Kingston to Port Royal. But his journey into sea......

To the casual passer-by, the work of visual artist Winston Perkins may seem amateur at best, but Perkins has been making a living off his paintings for the last 30 years. Perkins, who displays his works on Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew, says......

Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson said that the police have identified a man in connection with the triple murder that has rocked residents in Bull Bay, St Andrew, on the weekend. Anderson, who was also speaking at a digital press.....

As the heat turns up this summer, so too does the fashion as female partygoers have dubbed the bodysuit as an 'outside' must-have. Whether casting illusions of your 'waist-to-backside' ratio, or just making you feel more sexy, the 'hot gyal'...

Unbridled delight oozed from the picnic goers as they converged on Rockland County State Park in Nyack, upstate New York, USA, on May 29 for the annual Trelawny Day Picnic. The event, which has been held consistently over the past 42 years, was......

An egg a day keeps the doctor away Eating an egg every day could be the key to stopping heart attacks and strokes. The food has been found to send 'good cholesterol' surging and get rid of the 'bad' type, known as low-density lipoprotein....

Two men were arrested following the seizure of over 90 pounds of ganja in water near Kingston Wharves in downtown Kingston. The men are being held on suspicion of possession of ganja, dealing in ganja and taking steps to export ganja. It is...

The Unemployment Insurance Scheme is to be submitted to Cabinet for approval, shortly, says Labour and Social Security Minister, Karl Samuda. Addressing the Ministry's Labour Relations Awards Banquet, held at The Jamaica Pegasus...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has launched a scathing attack against the current Andrew Holness lead government, labelling it as the most corrupt in Jamaica’s history. Golding was addressing supporters of the People’s National Party (...

The Burnt human remains a 77-year-old man were found today in bushes along the Content main road in the community of Cavalier in St Andrew. He is believed to be Derrick Lindsay, a Kingston resident who went missing on Saturday. The police believe......

The St Catherine police are currently probing the killing of four men, and the injuring of another, during a drive-by shooting in Tawes Pen, Spanish Town in St Catherine last night. The men have yet to be identified....

As she lay beside her husband Earl Jackson about 9 p.m. Saturday, Marva Jackson had a strange feeling and began crying. Earl kissed her tears and tried to reassure her that everything would be OK, but her gut still told her that something...

After going to bed sometime after 11 p.m. on Saturday, Trevor Myers was restless for the entire night before finally leaving his bed minutes to 4 a.m., unable to sleep. About an hour later, he heard terrible news that his family had been trying......

Three unidentified men, believed to be gunmen, died in a motor vehicle crash along the Barbican main road in Hanover yesterday. Four tourists and a tour bus operator also received injuries and had to be treated at hospital. Investigators also...