WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is seeking to assure Jamaicans and international partners that all Hurricane Melissa recovery funds will be strictly monitored, insisting there will be no waste, mismanagement or political...

WESTERN BUREAU: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for urgent international support to ensure Jamaica gets the fiscal breathing room it needs to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa. Mottley made the appeal during a CARICOM leaders’......

The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is defending the increased ticket prices for today’s World Cup Qualifying match against Curaçao at the National Stadium. Earlier qualifiers were priced at $10,000 for VIP, $7,000 for grandstand, and $2,000 fo...

WESTERN BUREAU: Nearly one million Jamaicans have been affected and more than 150,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, prompting a major regional response led by Guyana, which has deployed Guyana Defence Force engineers to repair...

Thirty-seven years to the day, Jamaica’s senior men’s football team secured historic qualification to FIFA’s World Cup Finals – France ‘98 – with a goalless draw against Mexico at Kingston’s National Stadium. On November 18, again, the...

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...

Police say a secret meat-swiping operation at a Portmore restaurant was exposed after cameras caught the alleged thieves red-handed and a Probox packed with 18 bags of meat was stopped in its tracks. Four people have now been charged with...

Police have released the identities of the four men who were shot and killed during what lawmen say was an armed confrontation along the Linstead By Pass in St Catherine last Wednesday night. Those killed are 27 year old Kemar Williams,...

Telecommunications company Digicel says restoration work on its network in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, has been halted owing to criminal activity. It says critical equipment was stolen from a recently repaired site, undoing progress and...

The Jamaica Defence Force says its Coast Guard team has recovered the body of a man who was allegedly swept away while trying to cross the Step River in St James on Sunday. Reports are that the man attempted to wade across the river but the...

The recovery and rebuilding of the education sector, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, will focus on making school plants more resilient against future storms, says Education, Skills, Youth and Information Minister, Senator Dr....