President of the Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) Garnett Reid says Jamaicans should strenuously push back against a seven per cent increase in electricity rate approved by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to the Jamaica...

Sexual offences, particularly consensual sexual intercourse with a person under 16, make up the majority of cases referred to Jamaica’s Child Diversion Programme, launched in 2020 to redirect children in conflict with the law from the courts to......

WESTERN BUREAU: Rabbi Yaakov Raskin, director of Chabad Jamaica Limited, has condemned what he described as a “despicable” and hate-driven attack on the global Jewish community, following a deadly shooting at a public Hanukkah celebration in Syd...

Anthony Smith is being hailed as a compassionate media leader whose stewardship inspired his colleagues and fostered an environment of innovation. Smith, who was chief executive officer of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group, died on Sunday...

Passley Gardens, Portland: President of the College of Agriculture, Science, and Education (CASE), Derrick Deslandes, has condemned Sunday’s alleged rape of a female student by unknown assailants on the institution’s property, which has left...

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...

Jamaicans already feeling the squeeze are set to feel it even more, as electricity bills jump by seven per cent this December, for November's electricity consumption, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says. "This adjustment was...

Police in Portland are probing the alleged rape of a female College of Agriculture Science and Education student following a frightening incident on the institution's campus on Sunday night. Detectives attached to the Port Antonio Criminal...

A St Mary construction worker has been charged with the murder of a fellow inmate following a deadly incident at the Annotto Bay Police Station lock-up. Twenty-three-year-old Nolando Atkinson, of Boscobel View, St Mary, was formally charged...

A life already battered by natural disaster has taken a criminal turn for one Jamaican fisherman, who lost his home in Hurricane Melissa and is now serving a sentence in the Cayman Islands for drug smuggling. Eric Junior Cunningham, 42, was...

A costly family lesson played out in court when a man was ordered to pay his former daughter in law nearly one million dollars after taking advice from his stepson and refusing to repay money spent fixing his car. The ruling was handed down by......