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A police team reportedly seized a Glock pistol with a magazine containing three rounds of ammunition after being shot at along Hagley Park Road in St Andrew on Thursday. The police say about 2:50 p.m., three men were seen travelling in a...
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A St Catherine man who allegedly hit a woman in the face after she refused to pay him extortion money was granted $200,000 bail when he appeared in court on Thursday. Cedric Brooks, who is charged with demanding money by menace and assault...
The bilateral aviation agreement between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic has fostered increased cultural exchange in tourism and increased commercial trade, thereby facilitating the creation of new business ventures and encouraging additional...
A murder convict who was granted leave to file an appeal 11 years after he was convicted and sentenced in 2004 has lost his appeal. He is Webster Brown, who was convicted in the St Ann Circuit Court on February 5, 2004 and on February 20, 2004...
Strike action by correctional officers at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre this morning forced an adjournment of the Clansman Gang matter in the Home Circuit Court until July 11. Only nine of the 23 accused men including the alleged gang leader,...
Forty-year-old Theron Lugg, otherwise called 'Ruddy', of Windsor Heights, St Ann has been charged with murder following the stabbing death of a woman on Market Street in the parish on April 7. The deceased has been identified as 48-year-old...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III and fifth in line to the British throne, has formally confirmed he is now a US resident. Four years after Harry and his American wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, decamped to a villa...
The Overseas Examinations Commission (OEC) has withheld comment on the outcome of a probe into the massive Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) fraud at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, but has underscored the critical necessity for all...
A planned protest at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, in support of dismissed principal Sharn Mangol, failed to materialise on Thursday as parents stayed away. Mangol was dismissed by the school board on Tuesday after a disciplinary hearing into a...
Mona High School in St Andrew has been closed today and Friday amid ongoing violence among students of several Corporate Area schools. This major development was disclosed in a circular obtained by our news team this morning. It's...
Twenty young people will be presented with the 2023 Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence (PMNYAE) for achievements in various fields, at a ceremony scheduled for April 20 on the lawns of Jamaica House, starting at 5 p.m. The award...
The role of technology in higher education has become more crucial now than ever, says Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams. Addressing the opening ceremony for St Joseph’s Teachers’ College’s Research Day 2024 in Kingston on Tuesday,...
The Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation has confirmed that the senior men’s team will be playing in the Challenger Series of three tournaments April to July 2024. This series involves round robin matches against Puerto Rico and Lebanon, who...
Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment in Jamaica’, at Northeastern University, a private university with its main...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senior clergyman Reverend Dr Howard Gregory is urging Christians to resist the temptation from elected officials to trample and smear the integrity of the Auditor General’s Department and the Integrity Commission. Gregory said...
