With less than a month before the busy end-of-year activities at the country’s ports get into high gear, Commissioner of Jamaica Customs Kirk Benjamin said the state body is pushing its express clearance programme by leveraging technology. Benjami...

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has pledged full state support to intensify police operations targeting high-risk criminals and their networks, following the death of two lawmen he has hailed as “heroes” murdered in a “devious trap”. Holnes...

For Jamaica’s public beaches, development of restroom facilities, eateries and other amenities can allow for greater enjoyment of the beloved natural resource. But as communities grapple with the realities of beach management, some Jamaicans fear ...

MANHATTAN, New York: One conquered Hollywood and Broadway, becoming an Emmy Award-winning actress and humanitarian. The other helped transform a Jamaican hotel company into one of the Caribbean’s most internationally recognised hospitality brands....

Miss Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) Festival Queen Danielle Cox has officially launched her parish project, aimed at addressing the lack of empowerment and access to resources for teenage mothers in her home region. The project, dubbed ‘The Refinery...

Residents question account of deadly Sligoville main road shooting; second cop succumbs to injuries Questions are being raised about the circumstances surrounding Friday’s deadly confrontation between police and men at a house off the Sligovil...

WESTERN BUREAU: When 24-year-old Ashli McCarthy arrived in Guyana four years ago, she knew almost nobody, had no local currency, and carried little more than her ambition to become a doctor. “All I had was my Scotiabank card and a dream,” she re...

A tribunal has ordered the government’s principal training agency to hand over the full, unredacted and authenticated minutes of all board meetings held between 2020 and 2023 to the attorneys for a senior manager facing disciplinary charges.

A 10-year-old child was allegedly used as bait by gunmen on Friday morning to lure police officers into a deadly ambush during an operation in the Five Miles area of St Catherine. According to reports, the confrontation began about 5:15 a.m. in Moun...

The People’s National Party (PNP) caucus in the Clarendon Municipal Corporation (CMC) has described a court injunction barring motions of no confidence against May Pen Mayor Joel Williams and Deputy Mayor Clive Mundle as a “threat on democracy�...