Vere United came away with a 1-1 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) home draw against Tivoli Gardens at the Wembley Centre of Excellence today. Vere, who had just 12 players at their disposal for the match, started the new campaign sprightly and duly....

Cops at the Lionel Town Police Station, in Clarendon arrested a man they believed to be involved in a car-stealing ring. It is reported that the man showed up at the police station to visit persons in lock-up while driving a stolen vehicle. He was.....

Justices of the Peace (JPs) are encouraged to sign up for their newly launched Government of Jamaica JP email accounts, to improve access by citizens and other stakeholders. The call came from Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, at the official....

A St James carpenter is counting his blessings, following an incident on Friday morning where he was attacked and shot at by five men armed with high powered rifles. He managed to escape the men, but ended up crashing into a house in Hendon,...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has announced that a "thorough investigation" has been launched into the shooting death of a Corporal Oliver Mullings. Mullings was shot and killed in the Kingston Western Police Division while...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC - The United Nations Security Council Friday unanimously approved a sanctions regime for Haiti, targeting gang leaders and those who finance them, in the hope of easing months of violence and lawlessness which has fuelled...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter's workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post. Musk has told prospective investors...

Despite the brutality of his actions, quintuple murderer Rushane Barnett believed that he only deserved to spend a year behind bars for killing five people in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon. The startling revelation was made yesterday inside the Home...

Mother and grandmother of the family now known as the Clarendon Five, Gwendolyn McKnight, said that the tragedy is God's way of testing her to see if she was faithful and strong enough to serve Him. "That monster [referring to convicted killer...

After nearly losing her life twice, once in a motor vehicle crash and the other after discovering a brain tumour, Saidain Townsend says she now bravely faces each hurdle with strength and faith. Sitting among relatives at her home in Olympic...

Rasheda Thomas-Bailey is hoping to bring solace to parents who have lost children to cancer through her book, The Journey of our Warrior Princess Jerodene Bailey, in honour of her seven-year-old daughter who died from the disease in 2018. Thomas-....

A St Mary man who attempted to buy sex for the first time, said he was burnt and robbed by a woman claiming to be a sex worker. Sporting a huge bandage around his ears and neck, Junior Linval Reid, 27, implored other men to be careful so as to...

The alleged driver of the vehicle from which a woman's body fell in Franklyn Town during a high speed chase with police, was remanded in custody until November 29, following his first appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on...

Many St Catherine residents, including Diane Thompson, 36, who sells crayfish along the busy Kent Village thoroughfare, need the Rio Cobre for their survival. But unlike previous years, Thompson said that she is seeing smaller profits as the...

The business community in Bog Walk, St Catherine, is under siege from criminals who use the cover of darkness to carry out their acts. According to some residents and operators, bars are especially targeted. "They travel in groups, normally enter....

Entrepreneur Sashalee Williams is on a mission to achieve financial independence, and is encouraging other women to do the same and take control of their lives. At 31 years old, the grocery shop owner has big plans to expand her business to...

A total of 16,000 students at 25 primary and high schools, based in Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs), will be targetted for behavioural interventions. Education and Youth Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, says the inter-Ministerial strategy will......

Medical practitioners are urging parents to be on the lookout for symptoms associated with gastroenteritis in their children. 

Digicel Jamaica has announced that it will be supporting e-Sim devices come December 2022. The announcement comes two years after the company's decision to become a digital operator, and just a few months after Apple unveiled its new e-Sim...

Heartless killer Rushane Barnett has been given five life sentences for the murders of his five relatives at their home in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, on June 21, and is required to serve 61 years before he can apply for parole. The sentences are to......