Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson-Smith, is in the United Kingdom to attend the Commonwealth Trade Ministers Meeting which will take place today and tomorrow. The Minister says this meeting marks the first in-person gathering since 2019 and presents an...
India's railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a "change in electronic interlocking" the likely cause. He later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but...
24-yo Freddy Harrison, otherwise called ‘Cat’, of Flanker, St. James has been arrested on a charge of murder arising out of an incident which occurred in Seaview Heights in Flanker four years ago Friday May 17, 2019. The deceased was 25-year-old Nembhard Goulborne,...
Three 48 hour curfews have been imposed in the Corporate Area and St James. A curfew is in effect in Rae Town Kingston 16 from 6 Friday evening until 6 Sunday evening. It covers area such as: North: Along the southern perimeter wall of the Elletson Road Police...
A 67-year-old businessman of Hillview Ocho Rios St Ann has been charged with breaches of the Sexual Offences Act arising out of an incident in the parish last Monday. Cecil Walters has been charged with rape, buggery, unlawful retention and assault occasioning actual...
A fisherman has been charged with breaches of the Firearms Act following the seizure of a weapon and ammunition at his home on Friday. Charged with Possession of Prohibited Weapon and Unauthorised Possession of Ammunition is 34-year-old Marvin Williams of William...
There is a new development this morning in the ongoing saga involving the embattled Stock and Securities Limited, SSL, and its former Wealth Advisor, Jean Ann Panton. Miss Panton, who has so far spent nearly four months in jail, has now filed a defence in the Supreme...
Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern Ann Marie Vaz has pledged to donate retroactive sums from her Parliamentary salary to get the victims of yesterday's fire at the Musgrave Market in Port Antonio back on their feet. The fire reportedly started shortly after 8...
The search is still on this morning for three juveniles who escaped from the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, on Saturday. One of the boys is 16-years old, and two are 17-years-old. Their names are being...
Police officers attached to the St. Andrew South Division have fatally shot one of three men who allegedly murdered another on Barbados Road in Olympic Gardens in St. Andrew yesterday. Reports are that about 4:30 p.m., a team of officers were on mobile patrol when...