NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Twitter slid more than 9% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to...

Detectives assigned to the St Andrew South Division slapped a Kingston man with several charges after he allegedly punched his girlfriend in the face during a dispute. He is 20-year-old Kirkland Nelson otherwise called 'Kirkall'...

The Government is being assured of keen interest in Jamaica by private and public sector investors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, received this assurance from the KSA's Deputy Minister for Investors...

The St Catherine police seized one Ruger 9mm pistol fitted with a magazine containing one 9mm round of ammunition during an operation last weekend. According to the police, about 10:30 a.m., lawmen were on an operation in the Kitson Town community.....

The killing of four persons in St Thomas on the weekend has pushed murders in the parish to 25 for 2022, a 61 per cent increase on last year's figures during the corresponding period. A common-law couple, Jermaine Jeffrey, 41, and Denise Bell,......

Naloney Linton said that even though her son, World Champion long jumper Tajay Gayle showed signs of greatness from his time at Papine High School, she did not think that he would propel into stardom so quickly. "I remember when he was in high......

For 19-year-old Shaquelle Lowe, the desire to become a world-renowned chef was a distant dream, until he saw his fellow August Town, St Andrew native Tajay Gayle leap for gold at the 2019 World Championships Games in Doha, Qatar, in the long jump.....

A taxi operator was killed and a woman injured following a shooting in the community of Seaview Gardens in St Andrew about 11 p.m. on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Dwayne Coke, of a Seaview Gardens address. It is reported that...

As carnival fanatics prepared to jump with the first Carnival in Jamaica since COVID-19 reached Jamaican shores, one couple decided to 'chip down the road' together at their first road march. Abigail Morris and her beau Chevaughn Witter wore...

If you are a victim of any act of domestic violence or have reasonable cause to believe that you are in imminent danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence, the Domestic Violence Act allows you to apply for a protection order. This is an......

A Corporate Area man, who allegedly kicked his babymother in the stomach for sharing her phone number with another man, pleaded not guilty in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court late last week. The court heard that on June 11, the...

"This is what 50 looks like," declared Marilyn Morrison, as she danced to one of Machel Montano's hits being blasted from one of the trailers on Bacchanal Jamaica's road march route. Morrison as well as her 60-plus-year-old friend, Sheryl March....

The chief executive officer of the May Pen Hospital, Eugena Clarke-James has confirmed that the monkeypox patient who fled the hospital early Saturday afternoon is back in isolation. "He is back and he is safe," she said,...

A man who was shot dead early this morning is believed to have been shot in reprisal over the murder of a woman minutes earlier in the area. 

The traveller from the United Kingdom who was confirmed with the contagious monkeypox virus has fled the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon.  Police and health authorities do not know his whereabouts. 

The Harbour View police are currently probing the death of a child whose body was found in an old refrigerator near the coast to coast concrete factory earlier today. The communications arm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) confirmed that a.....

A St Catherine family is accusing the police of unfair treatment following a raid and the detention of nine persons in an operation in Sydenham, in the parish this morning. The police have denied the claim. Deputy Superintendent in charge of...

The Portland police are currently probing the shooting death of Twenty-nine-year-old Roshane Golding who was attacked by gunmen along Nuttal Road in Port Antonio last night. No motive has been established for the shooting. Golding succumbed to his.....

Two suspects in the murder of the fifteen-year-old Manchester student Vesteroy Sinclair are currently in police custody. Sinclair was shot dead in an attempt to aid his mother during a robbery and home invasion in Turner Top district in Manchester.....

The grandmother of Shameka Miller, the St Andrew woman who was arrested and charged on Tuesday for faking her kidnapping, said she feels embarrassed by her actions. Miller, 27, was charged with extortion and creating public mischief by...