When Surinamese singer Jah Nelson made a visit to Jamaica in March, his intention was to stay in the island for no longer than two weeks. Six weeks later, the Rastafarian entertainer is still here. The singer-songwriter who hails from the...
Government supporters of offshore wind-energy projects in New Jersey and New York are trading blows with opponents in some shore towns who say many vacationers and local residents don’t want to see turbines filling the ocean horizon. Eight Jersey...
Dear Mrs Walker-Huntington, If you were an LPR (legal permanent resident) who worked in the USA and is entitled to social security because USA collected money from your cheque, can the USA stop your social security if you are deported and cannot...
Dear Mr Bassie, Please tell me how I should go about changing my child’s name on a British passport. Any assistance would help. NM Dear NM, Please note that a child will need to get a new passport if he/she has changed their name. Persons...
EFFORTS TO improve the Newport West shipping community and ensuring the compliance of members to the Data Protection Act are high on the agenda for president of the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ), Corah Ann Robertson-Sylvester. Robertson-...
Dear Miss Powell, My daughter was born in Canada. She’s now seven years old and lives with me. I had a visitor’s visa and I applied to have the visa renewed for over six months now, but I have not heard back from them. Now my daughter’s...
The Highgate Police in St Mary are appealing to the public for information that can help in an ongoing investigation into an incident that claimed the life of 28-year-old Fabian Needham, a gas pump attendant of Walkers Avenue, Highgate in St Mary...
Christopher Hawthorne of Charles Town, St Mary died from injuries he received in a fatal collision on the Ocho Rios Bypass in St Ann earlier today. Reports from the Ocho Rios Police are that about 12:10 a.m., the driver of a Land Rover Discovery...
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica is advising that a trough across the region is expected to bring unstable weather conditions across the island for most of this week. Beginning tomorrow morning, showers and thunderstorms will affect most...
Four days of heavy rainfall, which triggered several landslides, has rendered the main thoroughfare at Claverty Cottage in West Portland impassable to vehicular traffic, while hundreds of residents are marooned. The inclement weather that has been...
The narcotics police seized an undetermined amount of cocaine from a courier service in Kingston on Friday, April 26. Reports are that about 12:00 noon, representatives from a courier service were conducting security screening on two shipments when...
CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders who attended the 23rd Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) in Venezuela have renewed their call for the lifting of the United...
Ward of the State, Jehvoun Byfield, has been honoured for being the Top Performing Boy in the 2023 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). The Kingston College (KC)...
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda, says the outcome of discussions arising from the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate...
Members of the Linstead and Bog Walk Taxi Association today launched a search for their missing colleague Rushane Wilkins, who went missing on Friday. Reports indicate that Wilkins accepted a charter to the Norman Manley International...
Two men accused of robbing a woman in Portmore, St Catherine last year were today each granted $200,000 bail in the parish court. Jhamani James and Kenneth Allen are charged with robbery with aggravation. In applying for bail, attorneys Fabian...
The police have arrested and charged an illegal taxi operator who was seen on video attacking another motorist following an accident. Peter Bramwell, 37, of a Kingston address, has been charged with malicious destruction of property, assault...
Students and staff at Peggy Barry Primary School in Westmoreland on Monday received counselling following the gruesome death of 8-year-old Jahmiel Richardson who perished in a house fire on Friday. Richardson, who was a grade three student, and who...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced on Monday that it is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia, accusing the government there of a failure to cooperate in taking back citizens found to be living illegally in the 27-...