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30 Dec, 2025
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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…
30 Dec, 2025
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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…
30 Dec, 2025
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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,…
30 Dec, 2025
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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…
30 Dec, 2025
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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…
30 Dec, 2025
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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…
29 Dec, 2025
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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…
29 Dec, 2025
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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…
29 Dec, 2025
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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…