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The decision to plead guilty spared the now 10-year-old child from having to relive the events of March 12, 2022.
December 9, 2025

Update|Portmore brothers charged in cell phone fraud case freed after paying back customers

Two Waterford, Portmore, St Catherine brothers charged for using their social media business to defraud persons seeking to buy cell phones have made restitution to the complainants. Having received…
People hold posters of Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA rally at Utah State University, as a part of the organisation's push to memorialise Kirk, Tuesday, September 30, 2025, in Logan, Utah. (AP Photo/Alex Goodlett)
December 9, 2025

US revokes visas for six foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by United States officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative…
Police Constable Arnold Wilson.
December 9, 2025

St Elizabeth police probing death of policeman found hanging in his yard, suicide suspected

The police in St Elizabeth are probing the death of a policeman whose body was found hanging from a tree in his yard in Williamsfield district on Wednesday afternoon. He has been identified as…
Ghana’s President John Mahama speaks to the media at the Jubilee House in Accra, Ghana, September 10, 2025.
December 9, 2025

Ghana rights group files lawsuit against government’s acceptance of US deportees

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 people have become the latest West Africans deported from the United States to Ghana under an accord between the countries, said a lawyer whose group filed a lawsuit…
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December 9, 2025 by Christopher Thomas

Mother accused of killing her child collapses in court during epileptic episode

WESTERN BUREAU: Unexpected drama unfolded in the St James Circuit Court yesterday when Shamoya Green, the St James woman who reportedly threw her infant daughter off the roof of their home in 2023,…
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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Contractor not guilty of dangerous driving in fatal Coral Gardens crash

A St James contractor accused of causing the death of a motorcyclist in a 2022 crash along the Coral Gardens main road in St James, was on Tuesday found not guilty of dangerous driving. Derrick…
Lloyd Barnett
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Barnett urges speedy appointments to vacant IC posts

Constitutional expert Dr Lloyd Barnett says the appointments to fill two vacant posts for directors at the Integrity Commission (IC) should be done promptly, owing to the critical importance of their…
Some of the more than 300 young people who participated in the MultiCare Youth Foundation series of empowerment and development activities under the European Union-sponsored BRIDGE Project, at the graduation and close out ceremony, held at The Jamaica Pega
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands| Hundreds of youth benefit from BRIDGE Project

Close to 60 young people attended the graduation and close-out ceremony for the European Union (EU)-sponsored BRIDGE Project, on October 9 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. These graduates…
Some of the team members from Jamaica Broilers Group and its Best Dressed Chicken and Hi-Pro divisions, alongside NEPA’s Leonard Francis (second right), chief executive officer, and Monique Curtis (right), manager of Ecosystems Management Branch, after t
December 9, 2025

Corporate Hands | JBG removes over 400 pounds of waste from Hellshire Bay Beach

More than 30 volunteers from Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) joined forces with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) to remove over 400 pounds of waste from Hellshire Bay Beach in St…