When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa unleashed chaos across Jamaica, 40-year-old American businesswoman Jetia Miller discovered something entirely unexpected -- love. Stranded by the storm, Miller fell for a local stranger who she said took her in.....

Principal of Ocho Rios High School, Marvin Clowson, says that while the school willingly accepts students from other schools during the disruption caused by Hurricane Melissa, the school will not be accepting any transfer requests at this time....

The Government is exploring the prospect of using more than 1,000 containers currently sitting idle at the Port of Kingston as possible temporary housing solutions for persons affected by Hurricane Melissa. Minister of Energy, Transport and...

Investigators in Portmore, St Catherine are searching for a taxi operator who allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in the parish recently. Reports are that the suspect, who hails from the Greater Portmore community, carried out the...

In a bare one-room shell with no furniture and no roof, 24-year-old Shanea Brown has turned survival into schooltime. While Hurricane Melissa has forced the closure of several schools, Brown has refused to let the disaster steal her child's...

While relief packages for hurricane victims usually consist of items including canned goods, tarpaulin, and water, Jamaicans are being encouraged to rethink what 'essential aid' may look like. There is a growing call to include condoms, as, many.....

One month after Hurricane Melissa reduced their three-bedroom home to rubble, the Smith family has yet to recover. Seven of them are now crammed into a single unfinished room in the hills of Troy, Trelawny, sleeping on two thin mattresses with......

With tiny lines of perspiration trickling down her face, Natalie Salmon stopped and rested for a few minutes under a roadside shed in Middleton Settlement, St Andrew. Holding to a piece of PVC pipe, the farmer said she had spent the last hour...

Jamaicans are gearing up for what could be one of the most expensive Yuletide seasons in recent times as market prices soar in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. While the streets of downtown Kingston and Coronation Market are busy, buyers hit.....

With thousands of Jamaicans still without adequate shelter, water or electricity one month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, one St Ann woman has turned a simple kitchen pot into a makeshift iron. Nita Smiley, 38, laughed as she explained.....

Cosmetic nurse Alicia Henry is determined to help Jamaicans smile again after months of stress, trauma and uncertainty, including what was brought by Hurricane Melissa. To do this, she's giving away free, non-surgical treatments at the AC Hotel......

The St Catherine North police have confirmed that 53-year-old Paolo Grant of Cheese Field district in Linstead has been charged with the murder of his mother, 80-year-old Jasmine 'Sister Grant' Grant, whose decomposing body was discovered inside......

Jamaica's poverty rate dropped to a record low of 7.8 per cent in 2024. The rate, which is the lowest on record since 1989, is down from the previous historic low of 8.2 per cent in 2023. Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (.....

Sections of the Corletts Road community in Spanish Town, St Catherine, remains tense following the killing of a resident by unknown assailants this morning. Dead is Alphonso Samuels McDonlad otherwise called 'Boo', a 60-year-old of the area....

A 27-year-old truck operator died at the Spanish Town Hospital yesterday after he was found suffering from what police believe to be electrocution injuries. The deceased has been identified as Demari Lewis of Mountain Side District, St Elizabeth....

A Bahamian woman who blinded and disfigured the woman she believed was sleeping with her husband will stay behind bars for seven years after the Court of Appeal refused to reduce her sentence. Pandora McKenzie, 68, had begged the court to reduce....

A man accused of shooting a taxi driver during an alleged robbery attempt has been freed of gun and robbery charges after spending three years behind bars. Twenty-five-year-old Royon Baker of Smith Lane, Kingston, was freed last Monday in the...

Every afternoon, for the past two weeks, long before the final bell rings at Craighton Primary School, 36-year-old Marva Anderson leaves her yard in Irish Town, St Andrew and begins the quiet ritual she never imagined would become part of daily...

Kenyah Wilson, a 14-year-old ward of the State, went missing last Thursday, and her mother Karrell Bennett is pleading with the public for assistance in locating her. Kenyah was last seen at a facility in Falmouth, Trelawny on the morning that...

A motor vehicle crash along the PJ Patterson Highway, part of Highway 2000 in St Catherine, yesterday has resulted in the death of five persons and the injuring of 14 others. Up to press time, the police had yet to identify the deceased. Reports.....