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January 22, 2026
Jury in Noel Maitland murder trial now deliberating
The seven-member jury in the trial of Police Constable Noel Maitland in the Home Circuit Court has gone into deliberations. The jury of four men and three women retired at 11:28 a.m. Maitland is…
January 22, 2026
Police probing suspected suicide of St Mary man
The police in St Mary are investigating the suspected suicide of a man who died in hospital days after reportedly ingesting a corrosive substance. He has been identified by the police as 57-year-old…
January 22, 2026
UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis in Nigeria as food aid funding runs out
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program said Thursday that more than a million people in northeastern Nigeria could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks…
January 22, 2026
St Mary man dies after being electrocuted
A St Mary man on Wednesday died after being electrocuted while in Warwick Castle district in Gayle. He has been identified by the police as 38-year-old Orace Grey, a farmer and mason of a Mango…
January 22, 2026
Janiel McEwan | Jamaica’s invisible economy is carrying the country
There is an economy Jamaicans interact with every day, yet rarely see reflected in official discussions. It pays rent when formal wages fall short. It absorbs shocks when jobs disappear. It feeds…
January 22, 2026
US gov’t warns it will take action if Haitian politicians destabilise country
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The US warned the transitional council in charge of Haiti against making changes to the troubled country’s government late Wednesday, as pressure mounts for the unelected…
January 22, 2026
PJ Patterson | Curtis Ward was a noble Avatar
During the long passage of life we are at times confronted with the sudden passing of treasured ones. That of Curtis Ward has come to me as a cataclysmic shock as our almost daily contact was done by…
January 22, 2026
Skeletal remains found at premises in Rockfort
The police have launched an investigation following the discovery of skeletal remains at a premises along Adastar Road in Rockfort in Kingston on Wednesday. The police say the remains were found…
January 22, 2026
Section of Browns Town to Alexandria corridor in St Ann to be closed for repair works
Commencing at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 24, the roadway from Browns Town to Alexandria in St Ann, in the vicinity of Top Road, will be closed for pavement repairs. The National Works Agency…