Jamaican music has lost one of its great bass men, with veteran musician Clifton “Jackie” Jackson dying this morning after a lengthy hospitalisation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.

Two Spanish Town men were slapped with $50,000 fines each after pleading guilty to urinating in public in St Catherine.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of 64-year-old domestic helper Hyacinth Rose Johnson, whose body was found behind her home in Union district, near Frankfield, Clarendon, in July.

ORAGE, Alaska (AP)/; After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

A grand jury determined that there wasn’t evidence to warrant charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a black college student whose body was found after a July 4 boating trip and party on an island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining will continue to provide irrigation water to farmers across the island to alleviate drought conditions on farms, says portfolio minister Floyd Green.

The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is encouraging farmers to take steps to manage stress on crops resulting from current extreme heat and drought conditions.

As she sat inside her late son’s bar on Wellington Street in Kingston, Venetia Thomas wore a weary expression – her eyes still swollen from crying.

A mother is convinced that her three-year-old son’s insistence that she sit beside him in the back seat of the car is his “divine instinct” that saved her life when the vehicle was involved in an explosive smash-up.

With artificial intelligence (AI) advancing rapidly across the globe, Jamaicans are being encouraged to develop skills to remain competitive in an increasingly technology-driven world.

A St Catherine man accused of repeatedly stabbing a bus driver with a pitchfork has been remanded again as prosecutors work to complete the case file.

Consultant neurosurgeon Dr Carl Bruce has been found not guilty on all charges stemming from allegations that he assaulted fellow neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter and damaged his shirt and tie nearly 19 years ago.

A former member of Pathways International Church broke down in court while recounting how the church’s now-deceased leader, Dr Kevin Smith, allegedly shot him twice in the back and then told him he could not die.

A policeman was reportedly punched in the face and disarmed of his service Glock pistol during a confrontation with a man in St Andrew North on Sunday.

Colombian authorities declared a public calamity as a wildfire burned through mountains surrounding one of the country’s best-known colonial towns in the northeast, scorching large swaths of vegetation and forcing evacuations.