Seven people, including a minor, have been taken into custody following a major joint Police-military operation in Great Pond, St Ann earlier today. The operation forms part of the authority's crackdown on lottery scamming across Jamaica....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California judge has approved a request by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's adult daughter to change her name and gender on her birth certificate. Vivian Jenna Wilson filed the petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court the...

Designers of floats, costumes and music trucks will have the opportunity to show off their skills at the upcoming Jamaica 60 Emancipation and Independence celebrations. The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport is inviting talented......

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Robert Nesta Morgan, who is also the Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Central, said the government wants to help the grieving family....

An alleged bodyguard and driver for the reputed leader of the Clansman-One Don Gang this morning testified that he is unable to drive. "Mi cah drive none tall," defendant Ricardo Thomas said when the prosecutor suggested that he was one...

Theophilous Tracey, 41, was granted a $600,000 bail earlier today when he appeared before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court following an application by his attorney, Peter Champagnie QC. Tracey was arrested earlier this year after the body of....

Rushane Barnett, the man police named as a person of interest in relation to the murder of five of his cousins - four of them children - has reportedly denied his involvement in the crime. Barnett, 23, who has been described by his brother as a.....

When students matriculating from the infant department of Beulah All Age School in Clarendon march during a graduation exercise next Friday, there will be an empty space where five-year-old Rafaella Smith would have been. Rafaella was also set to....

While declaring that he was just a hard-working family man, one of the alleged members of the Clansman-One Don gang yesterday told the court that he had to peddle panties at times to provide for his family. The defendant, Lamar Simpson, while...

Ifari Thomas, who for years has been living and earning from the Bob Marley Beach in Nine Miles, Bull Bay, St Andrew, is welcoming infrastructure work being done on the roadway that bypasses the spot. The work is part of the Southern Coastal...

Jamaica recently became one of two countries to benefit from a 12-month pilot programme aimed at reducing the prevalence of small and lightweight weapons into the country. The programme is being funded by the Saving Lives Entity (SALIENT) Fund......

A man charged in connection to a $7-million robbery in downtown Kingston was denied bail in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. Kevon Lee pleaded not guilty to charges of simple larceny and conspiracy to steal following an...

A 21-year-old Corporate Area man yesterday admitted to Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks that he drove away a person's car from Spanish Town, St Catherine, to Kingston, to purchase weed. Raheem Webb pleaded guilty to driving away a motor vehicle....

The only thing double amputee Alves Bromfield of Ridge in Junction, St Elizabeth needs to be happy is "a decent house". Living in a cramped room that is falling apart, he dreads the rain as he shared that the last time it rained, the house was......

The farming community of Cambridge in Eleven Miles, Bull Bay, St Thomas, is expressing gratitude to Caribbean Cement Company Limited for installing a concrete pavement that will help alleviate flooding. Ian Barrett, who has resided in the...

For the past 12 years, Bull Bay, St Andrew resident Mario Forbes has been braving the seas at least five times a week for a good catch. Most of the licensed fisherman's missions are successful and at the end of most trips, his boat is usually...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (June 21) approved the General Consumption Tax (Amendment of Schedule) Order, 2022, Resolution, providing for the exemption of lithium-ion batteries from General Consumption Tax (GCT). Minister of Finance and...

The woman who was seen in a viral video leading the police on a chase across the Corporate Area in April, was today fined a total of $27,000 and her driver's licence was suspended for a year. Nicole Williams, who returned to the...

A St Catherine man has been charged with rape, forcible abduction, and indecent assault after he abducted and raped a woman that was visiting from the United States of America in March.

A 41-year-old woman was shot dead and three others injured during a shooting along Red Hills Road in St Andrew last night. She has been identified as Sherine Pinnock, of a St Andrew address.