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Omar Collymore this morning disclosed that he had invested a total of $3 million in an ice-cream company for his ex-lover while admitting that he was told by his wife two months before her death that their businesses as a couple were "...
Thirty-year-old Romaroo Reid died as a result of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash on Woodstock main road in Portland on Wednesday. The police say about 12:35 a.m., Reid was riding a motorcycle along the roadway when he reportedly...
Investigators assigned to the May Pen Criminal Investigations Branch in Clarendon are seeking the public's help as they probe the murder of a 69-year-old man whose bullet-riddled body was found along Foga Road in Four Paths. The deceased has...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines has joined 10 other Caribbean countries in achieving UNAIDS certification of the dual elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis. In addition,...
Jamaica's visitor arrivals have not been negatively affected by travel advisories, says Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett. Addressing Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, he said travel advisories are the “...
A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson is now proposing to pay approximately $6.48 billion over 25 years as part of a settlement in the United States to cover allegations that its baby powder containing talc caused ovarian cancer. The lawsuits filed...
Information Minister Robert Morgan on Wednesday declined to comment on a recent People's National Party (PNP)-commissioned Don Anderson poll which gives the opposition party a 7.8 percentage point lead over the ruling Jamaica Labour Party(JLP...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Duelling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Julian Robinson, is questioning whether the $25 billion in givebacks announced by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke in March are sustainable in light of the revenue underperformance in the last fiscal...
The personnel committee of St James High School's board of management is expected to take another week to provide the result of its investigation into reports that the school's principal, Joseph Williams, expelled two female students in...
The security forces seized two illegal firearms in Grants Pen, St Andrew, Wednesday morning. The Gleaner understands that a nine millimetre pistol containing 12 live rounds and a shotgun with five cartridges were unearthed during an operation which...
A taxi operator has died following a three-vehicle collision along the PJ Patterson Highway in Clarendon on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Kevin Rose. Preliminary reports are that about 3 p.m., two Toyota Probox motor cars, one of...
Councillor for the Morant Bay division in St Thomas, Rohan 'Washy' Bryan, has died. Bryan, who first won the division in 2012 on a People's National Party (PNP) ticket, succumbed to a heart condition about 2 a.m. Wednesday. Ryan...
Opposition Spokesman on Water, Ian Hayles, says the "shifting plans" for the proposed water improvement project in Western Jamaica have raised doubts about the overall project. He is calling for clarity on the matter from the...
BEIJING (AP) — A section of a highway collapsed early Wednesday in southern China, sending cars tumbling and leaving at least 24 people dead, according to state media. Eighteen cars fell down a slope after a 17.9-meter long section of the...
