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Mark Malabver, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), addressing delegates on the third and final day of the JTA's 2026 education conference at the Princess Grand Hotel in Hanover on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
Published 10 hours ago

JTA president hits back, says Education Minister was told about school shelter allegations

Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has clapped back at critics questioning his reports of shelterees committing sexual acts while occupying school-based shelters, declaring…
Professor Earle Taylor, Jamaican Honorary Consul in Namibia and President of the Graduate School of Leadership and Professional Development.
Published 10 hours ago

Earle Taylor | Jamaica’s Republic: A matter of State, not political expediency

The lively and necessary public conversation surrounding Jamaica’s move toward republic status appears to have lost steam following the recent local government elections. In my view, allowing this…
Flight line workers push a Southwest Airlines aircraft away from a gate at Love Field Airport in Dallas, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Published 10 hours ago

Southwest Airlines hikes fees amid higher jet fuel costs

Southwest Airlines is raising checked baggage fees by $10, less than a year after ending its “bags fly free” perk that long set it apart, as jet fuel costs have jumped since the start of the Iran war…
A screenshot from a video of a shooting incident in Jarrett Lane, Kingston
Published 11 hours ago

Two named persons of interest in Jarrett Lane gun incident

The police have named two persons of interest in connection with Saturday’s shooting incident on Jarrett Lane in Kingston that was captured on video and has since gone viral. Being sought are ‘Sir…
Commander of the St Catherine North Police Division, Senior Superintendent Hopeton Nicholson, speaking with reporters on April 8, 2026.
Published 12 hours ago

St Catherine North police raise alarm over increase in sexual offences against children

Law enforcement officials in the St Catherine North Police Division are expressing concern over an increase in sexual offences involving children, with senior officers warning that many of the…
The St Catherine Parish Court in Spanish Town.
Published 12 hours ago

St Catherine court rules men held allegedly with cocaine on highway should stand trial

St Andrew residents Errol White and John Todd, who were held allegedly with cocaine along a highway, are to stand trial as a judge in the St Catherine Parish Court has ruled that they have a case to…
FILE - Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, May 15, 2022. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Published 13 hours ago

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers appeal his conviction with First Amendment argument

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyers are poised to try to persuade federal appeals court judges that the hip-hop mogul was treated unfairly at the trial that sent him to prison…
House fire in the community of St John’s Garden in Spanish Town, St Catherine on April 9, 2026.
Published 12 hours ago

14-y-o girl killed, brother critical after house fire in Spanish Town

Tragedy struck the community of St John’s Garden in Spanish Town, St Catherine on Wednesday afternoon when a 14-year-old girl perished in a devastating house fire that also left her elder brother…
Pocket Rocket Foundation All-Star team and coaches get ready to depart for St Vincent and the Grenadines for a two-match exchange.
Published 22 hours ago

Pocket Rocket Foundation delegation off to St Vincent

The all-star team selected from the recently concluded Pocket Rocket Foundation Peace Through Sports Six-A-Side Football Competition departed the island yesterday for St Vincent and the Grenadines,…