News
December 30, 2025
JDF soldier charged over firing of gun in St Elizabeth
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been charged following a Christmas Day incident in Roses Valley, St Elizabeth, in which he allegedly discharged a firearm in public. Thirty-year-old…
December 30, 2025
Six charged over alleged theft from storehouse in St Ann
Sleuths assigned to the St Ann Criminal Investigations Branch have charged six men in connection with a theft at a storehouse along Stand Fast Road in Brown’s Town, St Ann in November. Charged are…
December 29, 2025
by Livern Barrett
SSL ‘execs’ face court Jan 26
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 & Securities…
December 29, 2025
by Lester Hinds
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ remittance tax takes hold this week
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…
December 29, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
St James Health Department renting 15 garbage trucks for clean-up effort
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…
December 29, 2025
by Carl Gilchrist
Discovery Bay Bauxite vows no ease up on assistance to Melissa victims
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…
December 29, 2025
by Albert Ferguson
StJMC CEO urges compassion for the less-fortunate
WESTERN BUREAU: Chief Executive Officer of the St James Municipal Corporation Naudia Crosskill has issued a powerful reminder that wealth and status offer no immunity from life’s uncertainties, as she…
December 29, 2025
by Neil Armstrong
Massey College Fellowship to allow professor to complete major projects
Dr Hyacinth Simpson, a Jamaican-Canadian associate professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been named a 2025-2026 Massey College Visiting…
December 29, 2025
‘Clarity, cohesion, strategic discipline’
CMC: Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reiterated the need for the region to remain a ‘Zone of Peace’ grounded in respect for international law, the…