A Westmoreland father is facing an incest charge after police launched an investigation into allegations that he engaged in sexual acts with his teenage daughter over an extended period.

A drive home ended in horror for a 30-year-old Clarendon carpenter after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a tree and burst into flames, leaving him trapped inside the mangled wreckage.

A 42-year-old man is fighting for his life after gunmen travelling in a white Toyota Axio allegedly ambushed him near Old Harbour in the early hours of Tuesday morning, riddling him with bullets before speeding away.

At just 14 years old, Montego Bay High School student Thaejadore Kerr has talked her way to the top, capturing the title of Jamaica's Junior Minister of Tourism after outshining the island's best young public speakers.

The murder case against a man accused of killing his 80-year-old mother took another turn on Tuesday after an Italian interpreter was brought before the court to help him understand the proceedings.

“Red light, pepper light, yellow light, blue... dem pepper spray Desmond eye.”

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says a full investigation is being conducted in collaboration with the relevant authorities and its technical team, after one of its buses caught fire yesterday.

Six technical high schools have received more than 200 robotic kits from the HEART/NSTA Trust to facilitate the delivery of the autonomous mobile robotics level III job certification programme in the upcoming academic year.

ANNALE BARTLEY STAR Writer

Detectives assigned to the St James Police Division have charged 32-year-old Oricha Green, of Top Hill, Green Pond in the parish, with murder following a domestic dispute in their community last Saturday.

Thirty-one-year-old Stephan Jones, otherwise called ‘Cash’, has been charged with robbery with aggravation and using a firearm to commit a scheduled offence following an incident at a shopping centre in St James on Monday, April 20.

Forty-seven-year-old O’Neil Hunter, a carpenter of Top Pen, St Mary, has been charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm following an incident at a party in the parish last Thursday.

Nearly a decade after a 62-year-old pensioner was fatally stabbed during a dispute in Greenwich Farm, the man accused of killing him has been granted $800,000 bail as the murder case moves through the courts.