Jamaica’s poverty rate dropped to a record low of 7.8 per cent in 2024. The rate, which is the lowest on record since 1989, is down from the previous historic low of 8.2 per cent in 2023. Director ...

Dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta says Hurricane Melissa is like a “slow poison” damaging Jamaicans mentally and it was a no brainer for him to contribute to the healing process. “A nuh joke thing a ...

A 27-year-old truck operator died at the Spanish Town Hospital yesterday after he was found suffering from what police believe to be electrocution injuries. The deceased has been identified as Demari ...

Every afternoon, for the past two weeks, long before the final bell rings at Craighton Primary School, 36-year-old Marva Anderson leaves her yard in Irish Town, St Andrew and begins the quiet ritual ...

Four weeks after Hurricane Melissa bruised Jamaica’s yam belt, the people who grow and sell the island’s prized staple insist that Christmas can still “bring back a smile”. Trelawny, which supplies ...

Despite feeling devastated with Maldon High School’s decision to withdraw from the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) daCosta Cup Round of 16, top scorer Javaughn Anglin said the team ...

Mount Pleasant Football Academy took a step closer to their dream of being crowned Concacaf Caribbean Cup champions after defeating Universidad ...

With just one more preliminary round remaining in the CG United Super50 Cup, the Barbados Pride, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force and Windward Islands Volcanoes are in a three-way fight for a place in ...

Marcia Griffiths is the headliner for Saturday Night Live, a show scheduled for November 29 at Sky Ultra Lounge in St Andrew. The Queen of Reggae will be backed by Lloyd Parks and We The People Band.

A Bahamian woman who blinded and disfigured the woman she believed was sleeping with her husband will stay behind bars for seven years after the Court of Appeal refused to reduce her sentence. Pandora ...

A man accused of shooting a taxi driver during an alleged robbery attempt has been freed of gun and robbery charges after spending three years behind bars. Twenty-five-year-old Royon Baker of Smith ...

The Parliamentary Opposition has sharply criticised the Government’s handling of recovery efforts in western Jamaica following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, calling for urgent and ...