Law-enforcement officials are seeking to quell public criticisms of the near three-year investigation into the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm Stocks...

Effective January 1, Jamaicans in the United States (US) sending money to relatives in their homeland will have to pay a one per cent excise tax on those remittances. The one per cent tax is set out in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passed by the US.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Lennox Wallace, parish manager for the St James Health Department, says the department is arranging to rent several garbage trucks to carry out its own waste collection in sections of the parish, a move bolstered by concerns about......

Discovery Bay Bauxite is committing to continuing its collaborative efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Melissa in St Ann. Since the passage of the hurricane on October 28, the bauxite company has joined forces with several other entities to...

A recent study has determined that a troubling percentage of Jamaican teenagers, including girls as young as 15, are engaging in sexual activity with multiple partners. At the same time, the research found, many adult women – some married or in.....

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - Male students at Little London High School no longer have to be jealous that the girls' restroom is nicer than theirs. Last Friday, a group of alumni called Global Humanity Network Incorporated (GHNI) dona...

Today is the 102nd day of 2022. There are 263 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbit the Earth and make a safe landing. OTHER EVENTS1606: Great Britain ad...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's Parliament on Monday elected Opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the new prime minister, following a week of political turmoil that led to the weekend ouster of Premier Imran Khan.Sharif took the ...

While the journey of entrepreneurship has been anything but smooth sailing for small grocery store owner Arlene Swaby, she is proof that with the right focus, and a little support, small business owners can thrive."I started out after m...

MONTEGO BAY, St James - Programme director, Community Renewal Programme, Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Charles Clayton says the answer to the nation's crime problem is definitely not the resumption of hanging.In fact, Clayton poi...

Life can change in an instant, no matter how wealthy or powerful you are, and Jamaicans must never look down on the less fortunate. That blunt reminder came from Naudia Crosskill, chief executive officer of the St James Municipal Corporation, as.....

SOUTH AFRICA Three killed in building collapse (AP): Three people, including a one-year-old child, died when a two-story building collapsed in South Africa's Soweto township, west of Johannesburg, in the early hours of Sunday morning, the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyers for hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs have urged a federal appeals court in New York to order his immediate release from prison and overturn his conviction on prostitution related charges, or alternatively direct the trial.....

Angry residents of 41 Boulevard in Rose Heights blocked the main road leading into their community this morning in protest over the lack of water in the area. Residents used trash, tree branches, garbage and other debris to block the roadway,...

Residents of Fitzgerald Avenue in the Maxfield community were urged by police during a street meeting last night to partner with lawmen in the new year to reduce violent crime, as officers also extended Christmas Day leniency to men being sought......