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Bondholders have approved resolutions granting Jamaican-Canadian businessman Michael Lee-Chin more time to service bonds, provided they receive a payment tranche by year’s end. JCSD Trustee Services Limited, in a document dated December 12, and...
New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licences to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he...
PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the storm lashed Haiti’s southern region. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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....
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...
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”...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
