The St Catherine South Police have intensified efforts to put a dent in the illegal 'guns for drugs' trade that operates between Jamaica and Haiti. In the most recent instance, four Haitians were apprehended in the Naggo Head in Portmore,...

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's slow but steady march out of a three-month lockdown remains on track even as coronavirus cases surge elsewhere in Europe, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday, as he confirmed that businesses from...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Centres for Disease Control (CDC), in the United States, has urged Americans to avoid travelling to both Jamaica and Bermuda following reports of an increase in cases of the coronavirus. In the case of...

The suspect killed by the police during the shoot-out in Bellfield, St Catherine, on Saturday has been identified as 20-year-old Jeff Bedward of Bellas Gate, St Catherine. The police had been hot on the trail of missing Clarendon schoolteacher...

The St Catherine South Police say they have arrested two of the prime suspects in a murder committed on Baptist Road in Gregory Park, St Catherine, on Monday, April 5. Reports are that about 8:30 p.m., the police received information that a man was....

BOSTON -- New research suggests the protection the Moderna vaccine gives against COVID-19 lasts for at least six months. The report Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine echoes what Pfizer said last week about its vaccine, which works...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has revealed that four more persons have died from COVID-19 on Monday, pushing the tally to 622. The deceased are: a 33-year-old female from St Catherine, an 88-year-old male from Kingston and St Andrew, a 53-...

Seven persons in Westmoreland were yesterday arrested and charged with breaches under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA). All seven are scheduled to appear in court at a later date. The Westmoreland Police say they were among eighteen...

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement this morning, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) indicated that Rowley began experiencing flu-like symptoms yesterday evening and was...

Twenty-seven-year-old Shatiek Hall, a bus conductor and construction worker of Christian Pen, Portmore in St Catherine was shot dead by two gunmen on at his home on Monday, April 5. Reports from the Portmore Police are that about 8:00 p.m., Hall...

John Brown* is a broken man. He says that he is close to falling into depression. He has long confirmed that his girlfriend of almost 18 years has been unfaithful to him on many occasions, but he never expected to find out, through paternity tests....

Stephen Wright, the man who is said to have been Jamaica's oldest person, died on Saturday at 119 years old. His family members, who are celebrating his life of selflessness, are hoping that the Government will relax restrictions on funerals and......

Water is life and the residents of Bois Content in St Catherine say the chronic shortage of the commodity is threatening their livelihood. According to those who live in the community that is nestled close to the border of St Catherine and...

"God, me nuh know if me a guh make it out alive" was the thought racing through the mind of Tameshia Griffiths when she was admitted to the COVID-19 ward at the University Hospital of the West Indies. A week before she was admitted, Griffiths...

Kenneth Francis of Simon in Rock River, Clarendon, will be 70 years old this year. He has fallen on hard times and is living in deplorable conditions. In his better days, he eked out a living as a farmer, planting pineapple and gungo peas. But...

Family members of Jermaine Bennett, the police constable who was murdered in Gregory Park, St Catherine, last week, are today breathing a sigh of relief that the main suspect in the killing was killed by police yesterday. Simone Lawrence, the...

Residents of Blackgate and Woodland, near Hopewell in Hanover are yet to come to terms with the tragic death of 23-year-old Jordan Lysaith. The youngster was electrocuted while working on a construction site in the parish on Good Friday. Reports....

"That woman is a miracle with children," said a barely audible Garfield Campbell when asked about his sister, Natalie Dawkins, the much-loved, 43-year-old teacher who has been missing since Tuesday, March 30. "She is a person like this; everybody....

Michael Smith has been homeless for just over two and a half years, but for him there is contentment at a 'tent shelter' in Linstead, St Catherine, which he shares with two other less fortunate persons. Despite having to brave the elements at...

The police are reporting that the main suspect in the murder of Constable Jermaine Bennett has died. He was shot in a confrontation with the police in Waterford, St Catherine this afternoon. Two illegal firearms were reportedly seized. Constable...