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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 international police to help tackle "catastrophic" gang violence which is targeting key individuals and hospitals, schools, banks and other critical institutions, the...

Brigadier Radgh Mason from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is to take over as the head of Jamaica's prison service on April 2.  As commissioner of corrections, he will head the Department of Correctional Services (DCS).  Mason will...

The narcotics police have charged a St Mary woman after her home was raided and crack cocaine was allegedly discovered. She is 52-year-old Sophia Ricketts, a resident of Annotto Bay in the parish. Investigators said that the woman was arrested on...

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today warned about the surge in dengue cases in the Americas. As of March 26, over 3.5 million cases and more than 1,000 deaths have been reported in the region. "This is cause for concern...

Government Senator Don Wehby has called for Opposition Leader Mark Golding to explain how his proposal to increase the income tax threshold to $3 million per annum would be funded. Debating the Appropriations Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, Wehby...

The Supreme Court has granted an application blocking the April 2 implementation of  mandatory contactless clearance by the Jamaica Customs Agency. The matter was taken to court by the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says it has intervened to ensure the safety of eight American teenage boys at the Atlantis Leadership Academy in St Elizabeth, amid allegations of abuse. The boys, aged 14 to 18, are US...

A former Courts employee has been arrested and charged in relation to a $19 million fraud discovered at the furniture and appliance retailer. Courts' parent company, Unicomer Jamaica, said in a media release on Thursday that it recently...

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud that unravelled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world's most popular platforms for exchanging digital...

ST PETERSBURG, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its cutter Venturous returned to their home port in St Petersburg, Florida, after a 60-day Caribbean patrol in which 65 Haitian migrants were returned to their homeland...

Mayor of Falmouth Collen Gager is planning to reach out to members of the public for help to repair the ceiling of the Falmouth Town Hall. The ceiling collapsed in March 2023. The building, which is one of Falmouth's historic Georgian...

An unidentified man who allegedly engaged the police in Guy's Hill, St Catherine, in a shootout was shot and killed on Thursday morning and a stolen motor car reportedly recovered. The police say they received information that men were spotted...

The community of Banks in Clarendon was rocked by a daylight double murder on Wednesday.   The victims have been identified as 28-year-old Tevin Ofield, a labourer of Gimme-Me-Bit, Clarendon, and 24-year-old Brandon Thompson of a...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister issued their first official statement on Wednesday, pledging to restore "public and democratic order...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent "routine engine maintenance" in port beforehand, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six...

As the Government moves to implement the next phase of the public-sector compensation review, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has reiterated the call for increased productivity in the civil service. “We are at the point where we have to get our...

Motorists will pay less for gas and diesel when they go to the pumps on Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $0.25 to sell for $172.39 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $0.25 to sell for $...

A man who has claimed he is the great-great-grandson of National Hero Marcus Garvey has been arrested for randomly punching a TikTok influencer in the face in New York City earlier this week, police said Wednesday. The New York Post...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) is blaming the Government of Jamaica's lengthy procurement process for its delay in occupying two properties for which it made $371.8 million in lease payments over three years. A report by the...

Opposition spokesman on health, Dr Alfred Dawes, is suggesting a probe by the Auditor General's Department into the health ministry's contract with The Phoenix Partnership (TPP) might be necessary at this time. Dawes this week raised...

For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a bit faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a "negative...
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