Approximately 15,000 new housing solutions are programmed for construction, under the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Project in St Catherine. Providing an update in the House of Representatives on October 5, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, said......

Sixty-one-year-old Dalton Plummer, a Fire Watchman, of Georges Plain in Westmoreland, was shot and killed while on duty at the Frome Sugar Factory on Wednesday. According to the Morgan's Bridge police, shortly after midday, Plummer was on Fire...

The two men who were captured in a video breaching floodgates at the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine, argue that they had no other alternative route to reach their home. Alexander Shaw, the lawyer for the two men said his clients will argue...

Portland businessman Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald and his co-accused Oscar Barnes are to be tried on September 18, 2023. McDonald is jointly charged with Barnes for the July 20, 2020, murder of the businessman's second...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's biggest nurses' union asked its 300,000 members Thursday whether they want to go on strike in a dispute over pay, and the U.K.'s electricity system operator warned of potential winter blackouts, in...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 5, CMC - The search is continuing for a 44-year-old woman who is presumed dead after she was swept away while attempting to cross a ravine as heavy rains lashed the twin island republic on Wednesday. The Trinidad...

BANGKOK (AP) -- A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care centre Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the...

Shaneil Francis says she was unaware of the demolition exercise that has since claimed the property she ‘owned’ on the informal settlement outside Clifton in St Catherine.

King's Counsel (KC) Peter Champagnie says he is very "shocked" to hear that his client, long-time staple of the St Catherine most wanted list, Rudolph 'Boxer' Shaw has escaped from police custody. Shaw, 31, was deported from...

The family of dancehall artiste Jerome Todd, who was shot dead by police during an alleged confrontation on Monday along Windward Road in Kingston, is dismissing the lawmen's claims that their relative was a major violence producer. The police's.....

A former Molly user has come out in support of the Government's plan to strengthen the laws relating to the use, sale, possession and trafficking of the new-age psychoactive drug that is being abused by fun seekers, particularly teens and young...

Millions of dollars in investment are set to go down in rubble as the Government moves to demolish several houses which are said to be constructed on lands captured by squatters. The structures are being erected near Clifton in the Bernard Lodge.....

Ray Howell, former principal of Edith Dalton James High School and past president of Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), said restorative practice is needed in schools to curb some of the issues the institutions are currently facing. Speaking......

State Minister in the Ministry of National Security Zavia Mayne said the country's ability to protect its borders was given a major boost on Wednesday with the donation of a RIGID Hull Inflatable Boat donated from Japan. He said that another five....

A Corporate Area man confessed to injuring the mother of his four-month-old child, as he did not like the way she spoke to him. Jermaine Lake pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in the Kingston and St Andrew parish Court on Wednesday. It was...

A Jamaica-born man told the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday that he paid someone to acquire a fake passport so that he could return overseas to visit his three pregnant girlfriends. Shawn Watson pleaded guilty to making a false....

A man who has a matter before the Home Circuit Court will have to remain in custody for the next three years, having breached his bail conditions. Christopher Morrison was charged with murder and was offered bail in the High Court. He was to...

Viagra could boost cancer survival rates Researchers have found that Viagra, the little blue pill that is commonly used to treat men with erectile dysfunction, could hold some important clues in attempts to beat cancer. Scientists have...

The National Neighbourhood Watch Movement (NNWM) is being rebranded, with a view to revamping its operations and image. President, Dr Asha Mwendo, told JIS News that the organisation, which traditionally assumes responsibility for formulating...

Pig farmers are being urged to collaborate with stakeholders to save the industry from current diseases by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Pearnel Charles Jr. The minister, who was addressing the recent annual general meeting of the...