SAN ANTONIO (AP):The driver of a broiling tractor-trailer found packed with immigrants outside a Walmart in San Antonio was charged yesterday in the deaths of 10 of his passengers and could face the death penalty over the hellish journey.In...
The expulsion of swimmers Jesse Marsh and Emily MacDonald from the team selected for the Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas, last week, has resulted in a court injunction that forced the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) to hurriedly...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Jamaica will continue its quest for a place in the 2018 World Championship of Indoor Volleyball when it hosts the CAZOVA Senior Women Championships at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, starting tomorrow until July 31.Eight Caribbean...
VATICAN CITY (AP):The Vatican says it is shutting off all its fountains, including those in St. Peter's Square, because of Italy's drought.Vatican Radio yesterday said the decision is linked...
MOSCOW (AP):Russia plans to send 19 athletes to the IAAF World Championships in London next week despite its suspension from international competition for widespread doping.The 19, including three former world champions, have been given exemptions...
A charity organisation formed by members from the Jamaican diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK) is peeved that an ambulance it donated to Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Hanover, has been languishing at Kingston Wharves for 11 months while the...
FRESNO, California (AP):A teenage driver lost control of her car while she was livestreaming on Instagram and recorded part of the crash that authorities said yesterday killed her younger sister in...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Brazilian police have arrested five teenagers on suspicion of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions at a Rio de Janeiro public school.Police say the girl's...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP):Thirteen inmates have escaped from a recently fortified prison in the South American country of Guyana just weeks after an earlier jailbreak.Senior Police Superintendent Wendell Blanhum...
We have no cause to question the Government's decision last year to purchase two offshore patrol vessels for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coastguard from the Dutch shipbuilders, Damen Group.The larger ships enhanced the JDF's capacity to scout...
THE EDITOR SIR:There might have been a time when none of us really knew or understood the deep and well-calculated recesses of the homosexual agenda. That was in the past.Now we know, with the exception, it seems, of the Anglican Bishop Howard Gregory, who was...
Sakima 'The Mauler' Mullings is one of the boxers who consistently fills venues locally when placed on a fight card. Because of this popularity, he says that he feels a responsibility to the Jamaican public to return the Wray...
The general health of the Jamaica population, as well as productivity, improved under the no-user-fee policy in public health facilities implemented in 2008 by the Jamaica Labour Party administration of then Prime Minister Bruce Golding, according...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMJovan Johnson
There will be slight changes to the Integrity Commission bill, an anti-corruption legislation that, in its current form, would allow Cabinet to designate as confidential any contract it chooses, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has said, following...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham
Records fell amid brutal performance at NDRC Full Throttle 3 at Vernamfield, Clarendon, on Sunday. Star of the day Neville 'Chuku' Hogg, in his beastly Toyota Supra, smashed his own record twice doing 8.657 and then 8.619 over the quarter mile,...
Just as it was in 2015, the 2016 Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica Top Award ended with a tie. This time, it was The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited and the Jamaica Observer that came out sharing the prime prize.The awards presentation,...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey
IAAF President Sebastian Coe has said that he cannot guarantee that next month's World Athletics Championships in London will be drug free."It's a very Utopian view. People will always seek to cheat," said Coe in an interview with BBC One's Andrew...
When Ramone Bailey bounded to a long jump personal best of 8.16m at last month's JAAA National Senior Athletics Championships, he surprised everybody, including his coach, David Riley. The mark, which punched Bailey's ticket to the World...
Published:Monday | July 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMDania Bogle
Former president of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Stewart Stephenson has confirmed his intention to make a bid for the role of president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF)."I could say that is true," Stephenson told...
Promoters of the Wray and Nephew Contender Series will meet to decide how to handle the clash that has been caused between the competition's grand final and the CONCACAF Gold Cup final, which sees Jamaica and the USA kicking off at around the same...