Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams is suggesting that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) consider housing high-risk criminals in its custody at Up Park Camp, the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force. Adams said such a move.....

The demolition of some 30 unfinished houses constructed illegally on the outskirts of the Clifton community in Portmore, St Catherine was halted on Thursday after a crew had destroyed 10 of the units. As early as 6 a.m., the security forces had...

Too embarrassed to disclose the scale of his losses, a young man standing at the cordoned security checkpoint along the Bernard Lodge main road Thursday morning rued the decision of his mother and girlfriend to purchase land from an unscrupulous...

Local manufacturers, distributors, other businesses, and citizens who have been deeply impacted by the congestion at the Port of Kingston can expect steady improvement in the clearance of their goods. Concerns were recently raised by the...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is to investigate the disappearance of approximately 40 metal drums used to collect garbage at designated areas in Salt Spring, St James, under its environment programme. Approximately 45...

A government lawmaker has strongly suggested that the requirement for early childhood educators to produce a police record before obtaining employment be expanded to include teachers at the secondary level. Minister without portfolio in the Office.....

An analysis of Jamaica’s STEAM ecosystem has found that 55.5 per cent of the required components are not present, 11.1 per cent are developing, 22.2 per cent are emerging, and only 11.1 per cent are proficient. STEAM is an approach to learning tha...

Julia Rogers was overcome with emotion on Thursday being one of two recipients of a two-bedroom home, valued at under $6 million each under the Government’s indigent housing solution programme. The resident of Fleet Street in Kingston Central...

Kingston 1. Nicardo Henry, Boys’ Town Primary 2. Zendaya Davis, St Aloysius Primary 3. Victoria Powell, Wolmer’s Preparatory Top boy: Nicardo Henry, Boys’ Town Primary Top girl: Zendaya Davis, St Aloysius Primary Winning word: D-Y-S-P-L-...

The Government is cracking down on a criminal gang accused of a land grab on the outskirts of Clifton, St Catherine, and will today start the demolition of 30 illegally erected houses. The lands, which fall within the Government’s Greater Bernard....

Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Executive Director Vitus Evans is batting for tougher sentences for unregulated operators in the gaming industry, arguing that judges have been too soft. Evans said that because of this, the...

A recent study has found that almost 13 per cent of Jamaicans are considered problem or moderate problem gamblers, but stakeholders have asserted that the country is not facing a crisis. Problem gamblers are those who experience negative...

The Bail Act 2022 tabled in Parliament on Wednesday has introduced new provisions that may deny bail to someone accused of committing murder within a zone of special operations (ZOSO), or in an area where a curfew or state of public emergency has......

Cuba is looking to expand its collaboration with Jamaica by supplying special-education teachers to address the deficit in the sector locally. Cuban Ambassador Fermin Gabriel Quiñones Sánchez made the proposal on Wednesday during a courtesy call o...

The Japanese government has donated a marine vessel to Jamaica to help strengthen the island’s capacity to police its borders. The vessel, which was donated through Japan’s grant aid programme, was handed over in a ceremony at Marine Police...

Justice Vinette Graham-Allen on Wednesday made an impassioned plea to the police, backed by a recurring court order, for Robert Fowler, the St Catherine mechanic accused of killing 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson, to undergo blood...

PORTLAND Top five: 1. Dayton Jennings, Nonsuch Primary 2. Shaqualia Ricketts, Port Antonio Primary 3. John Greene, Port Antonio Primary 4. Shamellia Anderson, Buff Bay Primary 5. Dremaine McFarlane, Mount Pleasant Primary Top boy: Dayton...

In damning allegations drawing on DNA and video footage, prosecutors cast accused murderer Constable Noel Maitland as a calculated killer who schemed to clean up evidence linking him to the death of 23-year-old girlfriend Donna-Lee Donaldson. The......

WESTERN BUREAU: Twelve-year-old Laron Jurik, who was found hanging from an apple tree in Broughton, Westmoreland, on Tuesday, had a history of suicidal behaviour that sparked scrutiny and worry, his disheartened mother has said. Jurik, who was...

The St Ann police have arrested a man in relation to the gruesome murder of his sister in Content Gardens, Ocho Rios, Monday night. The woman has been identified as 56-year-old Michelle Roache, who operated the Healing Stream Spiritual Temple in......