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December 30, 2025
Update | Portland man wanted in alleged rape of CASE student killed in police confrontation
A 38-year-old man, wanted in connection with the alleged rape of a student at the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE) earlier this month, was shot dead in a reported police…
December 30, 2025
Pastor rejects Warmington’s criticism of $75m allocation for rebuilding of churches
Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey, president of Jamaica Evangelical Alliance, is rejecting lawmaker Everald Warmington's criticisms of the Government's $75-million allocation to churches for…
December 30, 2025
St Andrew businessman charged following shooting over alleged car confusion
A businessman has been charged after allegedly shooting a man who reportedly mistook his vehicle for a relative’s car on Old Hope Road, St Andrew on December 24. Thirty-seven-year-old Rushane Henry,…
December 30, 2025
Gov't delivers first $20,000 grants to persons outside social welfare programmes
The Government has started disbursing the first round of $20,000 grant payments under the Solidarity Programme, which is targeting thousands of Jamaicans who are not covered by formal social…
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…