This was 22.9 per cent higher than the US$1.01 billion for the corresponding period in 2020, reported the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN). In a statement on Monday (February 14), the agency said that the out-turn was largely due to a 96.8....

The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) is expecting 1,269 affordable housing solutions to be brought to the market during the 2022/23 financial year, from three joint-venture arrangements. The joint-venture projects are with China Harbour Engineering.....

A St Catherine senior citizen who allegedly sexually assaulted his three grandchildren has been charged by the police. The 69-year-old man has been charged with three counts of rape. He has been booked to appear in the St Catherine Parish Court.....

The much-anticipated secret recordings of conversations of alleged members of the One Dong gang, including reputed leader Andre 'Blackman' Bryan, are to be entered into evidence. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes ruled yesterday that the recordings have.....

For some it may seem like just a business venture, but for Tashell and her grandmother, Miss Deloris, peddling their Valentine's Day-themed gift baskets has become a family tradition. For more than 20 years, the pair have been helping others...

The usual tense atmosphere in Parade Gardens in central Kingston morphed into a relaxed and comforting environment yesterday. This is due to the serenading by the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) Band, which provided entertainment at the JCF......

In the middle of the pedestrian traffic going in and out of a supermarket in the Liguanea area on the weekend, it was hard not to notice a man holding a box with individually packaged strawberries - bright red and distinctly aromatic. "...

Fourteen rounds of lovemaking was what social media star and recording artiste Queenie Lady Gangsta required from her husband Duwayne 'Dewy' Scarlett as a Valentine's Day gift yesterday. The duo, who were spending their first Valentine's Day as....

The police in St Catherine are searching for the driver of a motor car which slammed into a motorcycle yesterday, resulting in the hospitalisation of the biker. Reports are that about 12:15 p.m., the motorbike, with the driver and pillion aboard.....

Two of Westmoreland's most wanted men, who reportedly engaged the police in a firefight last Saturday, turned themselves in yesterday. They have been identified as Moses Ramsey, otherwise called 'Satan' of Burnt Savannah, and Russia district in....

Food for The Poor (FFTP), operating in partnership with disaster relief agencies, has been bringing much-needed relief to residents and business owners of St Mary and Portland who were affected by recent heavy rains which caused flood damage....

"A very good starting point'. This is how Daemion McLean, chairman of the Jamaica Society for the Blind, is labelling the legislation of the Disabilities Act that took effect yesterday, February 14. The legislation protects and promotes equal...

Relatives of Diego Edwards, the 29-year-old mattress maker who was gunned down last Saturday in Arnett Gardens, say that he was in the processing of migrating to Italy in May, to live with his girlfriend. “A just last week his girlfriend sent the...

Mickayla Thomas is running a race against time to save her 61-year-old mother's life. Hyacinth Walton suffered a stroke on February 3 and was recently discovered to have a brain aneurysm that doctors say is in a complicated position in the...

Police report that one of two men who posed as Good Samaritans and offered to assist a man to change his tyre in Ocho Rios, St Ann last December, has been charged with stealing $1 million. Delorie Laird, 41, otherwise called 'Steelie', a farmer......

At the onset of the pandemic, Latoya Rattray-Ellis faced uncertainty after losing her job as a public relations and communications manager. She hurriedly tried to secure alternative income, but several attempts failed. However, it may have been.....

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Legal Runnings, a weekly column tailored to answering your legal questions that will be published this and every Monday. This column is geared towards helping ordinary Jamaicans better...

Two ex-convicts, one of whom received a suspended sentence last November, found themselves in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week to answer to larceny charges. Dane Peart and Shamari Henry are charged with storehouse breaking and...

Up until the latter part of 2019, the Westmoreland police say they did not know about Andre 'Bunny' Hinds. However, soon after he had killed two people - in reprisal for his younger brother's murder - the 31-year-old, who was killed during a...