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Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 7:29 PM

The Mines and Geology Division is warning Jamaicans against removing quarry material such as sand, gravel, marl, silt, and stone that have been deposited in areas arising from Hurricane Melissa, saying such action amounts to illegal extraction and...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 7:11 PM

The communities of Park Lane and 100 Lane located off Red Hills Road, Arthur Leon Drive in Golden Spring and Iron River district in Stony Hill, St Andrew are now under a curfew, as the St Andrew North police undertake operations aimed at...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 5:55 PM

Two St Mary policemen have been charged for allegedly assaulting a man while he was handcuffed at the Highgate Police Station. The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is reporting that Corporal Garth Brown and Constable Shaquille...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 5:13 PM

A St Catherine judge has refused bail to a 21-year-old man who is charged with stabbing his then girlfriend 16 times while they were both asleep in bed, with the accused saying he was having a bad dream at the time of the incident. Gilbert Cooper...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 4:16 PM

The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is reminding citizens to exercise caution when installing and using Christmas lights, in order to reduce the risk of fires during the festive season. Speaking during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 3:36 PM

Two policemen who were charged with assault for using excessive force against a man during a spot check in Portland have had the case against them dropped and were formally found not guilty after paying the man $200,000 in compensation....

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 3:09 PM

Funds from the previously allocated $1 billion under the National Energy Poverty Reduction project will be used to assist families severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa. Addressing Wednesday’s post-Cabinet press briefing on Hurricane Melissa...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 2:53 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions”...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 2:03 PM

Detectives in the St Catherine North Police Division are investigating what they believe is a major stolen-vehicle operation with possible links to an islandwide criminal network. According to police reports, sometime after 8:30 a.m. on Friday,...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:39 PM

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, her ministers and her defenders are involved in a fantastic and unconvincing attempt to deceive the public. Why have the Americans deployed their flotilla, including the US Joint Task Force, into the Caribbean...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 11:59 AM

Jamaica's Minister of Water, Environment, and Climate Change, Matthew Samuda, has been elected president of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The 193-member UNEA is the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 1:32 PM

UNESCO is to support Jamaica’s hurricane-battered education sector by helping with the provision of learning kits for students in grades 7-9, and targeted grants to 100 student-teachers at Sam Sharpe Teachers College in St James. The assistance...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:45 AM

The St Catherine North police have pledged to take a firm stance against illegal vending, robberies, extortion, and other anti-social activities during the Christmas season. Deputy Superintendent of Police Constantine Bennett said that officers,...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:26 AM

Murders in Clarendon continue to decline, with police reporting 37 killings so far this year, a 42 per cent drop from the 64 recorded over the similar period last year, the Clarendon Municipal Corporation has been told. That rate is on par with...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 10:13 AM

A trip to Jamaica with friends was among the expenses a Black Lives Matter (BLM) executive paid for with money she allegedly embezzled from the American social justice movement, authorities in the United States have announced. Tashella Sheri...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:33 AM

Twenty-three Haitians were taken into custody following a police raid in Harbour View, in eastern Kingston, on Thursday. Around 8 a.m. officers swooped down on a premises in the area where the group was found. They are now being processed ahead...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:32 AM

Twenty-three Haitians were taken into custody following a police raid in Harbour View, in eastern Kingston, on Thursday. Around 8 a.m. officers swooped down on a premises in the area where the group was found. They are now being processed ahead...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 9:52 AM

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has received a major boost for the sector’s recovery, with Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited donating $25 million worth of fertiliser for farmers severely affected by Hurricane Melissa. During the...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 8:41 AM

(AP) — Liverpool coach Arne Slot said he was having talks with Mohamed Salah on Friday after the forward's explosive outburst threw his Anfield future into doubt. Salah said last week that his relationship with Slot had broken down after being...

Published:Friday | December 12, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred COMMANDER Z returns off a three-month break, without blinkers, perfectly drawn for a shot at Sunday’s Charles Hussey Trophy out the straight course. A four-year-old colt, COMMANDER Z won on debut, 59.2 at five furlongs straight...

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