The St Andrew North Police Division has been recognised by God Family Ministries International Church for its sustained reduction in crime during a special thanksgiving service held on Sunday, January 25. The service, held under the theme '...

(AP) -- Catherine O'Hara, a gifted Canadian comic actor and "SCTV" alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin's harried mother in two "Home Alone" movies and created the dramatically ditzy character of Moira Rose in the Emmy-winning comedy "Schitt's Creek...

Students at Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town, St Catherine, have been cautioned against misusing artificial intelligence (AI), with pupils being urged to take their education seriously and put in the necessary work. Chief AI consultant....

A medical doctor accused of attempting to swindle nearly $80 million from a commercial bank was remanded in police custody when she appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Thursday, January 30. Doctor Chloe Duette, otherwise called Peta-Gay....

Classes at Port Antonio High School were suspended on Friday after a security issue forced the evacuation of the institution. Police and fire personnel responded to the incident and conducted a thorough search of the school. Traffic in the...

A security guard from Spanish Town, St Catherine is now at the centre of a theft probe after investigators say he helped himself to nearly half a million dollars that he was paid to protect. Thirty-eight-year-old Ricardo Nicholas, a security...

Every week, after the sanctuary empties and the pastor goes home, his wife, Candy*, stays behind. What happens next, she insists, is not sin but "ministry", albeit of a sexual nature. Inside the same church where sermons of obedience and...

Outside of family, what gave Courtney Robinson the most pleasure was seeing electricity restored to communities that were once left in darkness. After Hurricane Melissa inflicted catastrophic damage on western Jamaica last October, the 66-year-......

When her mother died in 2019, Melissa* was only 12 years old; her father had passed five years prior. After bouncing around living with relatives, one day she walked to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) office, hoping to...

Detectives attached to the Trelawny Criminal Investigations Branch have charged 18-year-old Javion Cameron, a farmer of Thompson Town district in the parish, with murder, following the stabbing death of a man in his community on Sunday. The...

Thirty-eight-year-old Ricardo Nicholas, a security guard, of Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been charged with larceny as a servant following the theft of a large sum of money on January 3. Reports from the police are that at 7:54 p.m., Nicholas....

Pope Leo XIV has warned men not to form emotional attachments to AI chatbot "girlfriends". Speaking on the World Day of Social Communications last week, the pontiff said it is becoming "increasingly difficult to determine whether we are...

A scene of mourning turned into crime scene when a teenager allegedly opened fire on a man attending a wake in Kingston 11, leaving the victim wounded and the shooter arrested. Eighteen-year-old Roy Dallas, otherwise called 'Royo', of St Andrew.....

A St Catherine farmer who was known for repeatedly threatening to take his own life was later found lifeless at his home early this morning. Dead is George Lynch, otherwise called 'Raj', a 39-year-old farmer of Crawl Road, Riversdale, St...

When Tyece Ferguson walks across the stage at the University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica this Saturday, she will be doing more than collecting a Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree -- she will be celebrating a journey defined by courage,...

After leaving his graveyard shift, Daniel Cunningham doesn't head straight home to rest. Instead, the 24-year-old trades his bed for a sketchbook, roaming the busy streets of Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, quietly searching for a face willing to...

Director of the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID), Superintendent Patrae Rowe, said the heightened vigilance at Jamaica's ports has been instrumental in the seizure of illicit drugs. Approximately 50 kilogrammes of cocaine,...

As he has been doing for the past few years, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton once again used the activities around Heart Month to press the conscience of Jamaica's food industry players, renewing his call for healthier options......

(AP): Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months. The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to replace corporate workers. It.....

When Marissa* vanished from her home, her family and community launched a frantic search. Missing-person posters featuring her photo soon began circulating on social media. However, few realised that her disappearance was not accidental. She had....