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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae Boyz Joel Latibeaudiere and Ephron Mason-Clark could be plying their trade in the English Premier League next season after their club Coventry City secured automatic promotion from the Championships after a 1-1 draw against Blackburn Rovers on Friday. The point took the Frank Lampard- coached Coventry City to 86 points and clinched the Championships title and returned to the Premier League after an absence of 25...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaicans who are “unbanked” and those without formal identification have combined to slow the Government’s post-Hurricane Melissa response, particularly as it relates to the $10 billion ROOFs Programme, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has said. The prime minister admitted that the ROOFS Programme which is designed to help Jamaicans who suffered damage to their houses as a result of Hurricane Melissa is not going as fast as...

Podcaster Jhaedee ‘Jaii Frais’ Richards has been slapped with a battery of charges in connection to a shooting incident at a carnival party Sunday that left him and two other people nursing gunshot wounds. The charges were laid following a court order to the police to charge or release Richards, who has been detained since the incident, by 6pm on Friday. Richards has been charged with shooting with intent, wounding...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two more people have been arrested in connection with an $80 million phishing scam at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) following operations on Wednesday. The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) arrested 26-year-old Shanielle Smith and 24-year-old Brandon Billings of Nannyville, Kingston and Twickenham Park, St Catherine, at their homes on Wednesday April 15 following an early morning operation conducted by MOCA agents and lawmen. In a statement, MOCA...

ST MARY, Jamaica — Two men were arrested after police intercepted a vehicle linked to the theft of goats in communities across western St Mary on Thursday. The dramatic arrest of the men was captured on a video that has gone viral, showing a Probox motor car at the side of an embankment on a section of the roadway. The car appeared to be a licensed route public passenger vehicle...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump's war of words with Pope Leo has angered some American Catholics, a key voting bloc, who say the United States (US) president has gone too far in his criticism of the pontiff. Trump has clashed with Leo on everything from Iran to immigration and recently dismissed the pontiff as "weak" in an unprecedented personal attack on a pope by a US leader. Leo,...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) has announced a business conference aimed at addressing critical priorities shaping the insurance industry, including risk management, fraud prevention, and digital transformation. Set for April 20th and 21st under the theme “Charting the Future Together – Strengthening the Insurance Ecosystem,” the IAJ says the conference will bring together industry leaders, regulators, policymakers, and innovators to examine the future of Jamaica’s insurance sector. As the representative...

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The Southern Regional Health Authority is dismissing as “false” social media reports that only one of the six operating theatres at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester is operational. In a statement on Friday, the authority clarified that all six operating theatres are functional. It noted that $13.4 million was recently spent to extensively upgrade four of the six operating theatres at the hospital, a proactive move to maintain and...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sport Minister Olivia Grange says the Government takes careful note of a decision by World Athletics to decline a request by 11 athletes, including four Jamaicans, to switch allegiance and represent Turkey at the international level. The ruling was handed down on Thursday. The four Jamaicans affected are Olympic discus champion Roje Stona, Olympic shot put bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell, Olympic and World Championships long jump silver medallist...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police are to either charge producer Jahvel “Jahvy Ambassador” Morrison in the shooting incident that took place at the Big Wall after carnival party on Sunday or release him by 6:00 pm on Friday. The order was handed down when Morrison’s attorney made an application for habeas corpus in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Morrison is represented by King’s Counsel Peter Champagnie. He was taken...