Donald Williams did not hesitate to dash from inside his house to see what had transpired when gunshots rang out at his gate on Wednesday evening. The sight of his 43-year-old fiancée, Nekeisha Pottinger, lying stomach-down at the gate was not what...

Eleven years after the Boscobel Aerodrome was upgraded and renamed the Ian Fleming International Airport, the facility welcomed its first international commercial flight on Thursday when an interCaribbean Airways 30-seat airplane arrived from...

At least two members of the joint select committee reviewing the Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulations) Act, 2022 are opposed to the provision allowing for a period of 24 hours for a firearm holder to produce a permit when stopped by......

The Mark Golding-led Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is seeking to bury years of internal strife with the expected installation of two key backers of the One PNP camp as vice-presidents. One-time deputy Mikael Phillips, who recently...

The Supreme Court has ordered that more than $100 million in properties owned by a Manchester businesswoman, her sister, and son be forfeited to the State. The properties include five parcels of land spread across four parishes and measuring over......

A bank employee has been arrested by the police after cocaine valued at more than $85 million was allegedly found in her possession. A quantity of 9mm rounds and a high-end motor vehicle were also seized during a search of her St James home on...

Chief Justice Bryan Sykes is to rule Monday on the no-case submissions made for 24 of the 28 remaining alleged gangsters in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, including reputed leader Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. While the majority of defence lawyers...

Investors from across the globe are being wooed to plough millions of dollars into the 650-acre Caymanas special economic zone (SEZ) that has been described by Gary Lawrence, senior vice-president of engineering at the Port Authority of Jamaica (......

Three months after relieved students of the Homestead Primary and Infant School were allowed to resume face-to-face classes after COVID-19 restrictions forced them online, they were yet again relegated to the virtual set-up as a recent flare-up of.....

Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck believes greater wiretap surveillance and reliance on CCTV footage to gather evidence against criminals would yield better judicial outcomes for the prosecution instead of dependence on witness testimony. “A lot.....

A Jamaican migrant is heaping praise on a countryman who freed her from security razor wire as she crashed to an 18-foot fall after being pushed off a United States-Mexico border wall by violent gangsters she was fleeing. The southern St Andrew...

Armed with weapons purchased with loot from the multibillion-dollar lottery scam, more crooks have reportedly joined an extortion racket, squeezing millions out of business and transport operators in Spanish Town daily, using deadly fear to secure.....

Canada-based Jamaican farm workers who are sending money to multiple families back home are driving the increase in remittances from the North American country, one money-transfer service is reporting. The disclosure was made by VM Money Transfer.....

The tension was palpable in Spanish Town yesterday as residents, commuters, and business operators nervously faced the ripples of the aftershocks of a daring deadly daylight gang attack in the St Catherine capital a day earlier, which triggered...

While lambasting prosecutors for their persistent failure to provide supporting evidence in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes also accused the police of taking too many shortcuts in the high-profile case. The tough-talking.....

There was a strong security presence at the funeral of teenage standout footballer Omar Laing as mourners gathered at his alma mater, St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS), on Wednesday to grieve and reflect on his promising though short-lived......

The National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) left lawmakers with raised eyebrows Wednesday when a representative divulged that a teacher who was convicted for physically abusing a child at a Kingston-based primary school more than...

A young member of the Jamaican diaspora is urging the Government to consider a collective remittance scheme to fund grass-roots to state-level projects. Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Council regional leader for Northeast USA, Asha Richards, said......

The terror of guns and internal gang warfare tore through Jamaica’s Old Capital Tuesday afternoon, prompting the imposition of a 48-hour curfew after at least three men were killed in related incidents in Spanish Town, St Catherine. It’s the �...

An “organised” band of criminals who stole nearly $50 million from an account at JMMB gained access to sensitive personal data through a cyber scheme, law-enforcement authorities have charged. “We can confirm that there is an act of fraud that...