Kingston, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) Canadian company Sagres Energy has an extension of its license to continue exploring oil offshore in Jamaica. Three agreements of that entity with the Oil Corporation...

Rasbert Turner, Star Writer A man who reportedly threw a three-week-old baby in a fire was remanded for psychiatric evaluation when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court...

A woman Who pleaded guilty to padding her bottom and strapping her legs with over three pounds of ganja was sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.She is...

Christopher Thomas, STAR Writer WESTERN BUREAU: Two men who were reportedly held with 18 bags of oranges that they could not account for were each offered $50,000 bail in the Montego Bay Resident...

Six months' imprisonment suspended for two years was the sentence handed down to a man who pleaded guilty to beating his sister with a rake recently. He is 37-year-old Michael Banton who was...

Rasbert Turner, Star Writer A St Catherine man who allegedly burnt down the house of a man he accused of stealing his ganja will reappear on February 29 for a preliminary inquiry. Charged with...

The Manchester Parish Council has launched an appeal for blood for several victims now hospitalised who were involved in a motor vehicle crash on the Pen Hill main Road yesterday morning. Forty...

The man who has been charged with the murder of University of Technology (UTech) student, Alex Brown, was again remanded in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday. He is...

Ronald Jackson (right), director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, clasps hands with Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee, director of Mona GeoInformatics. at left is Chris...

WESTERN BUREAU: Casey Jones, one of two men implicated in the February 23, 2011 case of attempted cocaine smuggling on a Colombian cruise ship, will return to the Montego Bay Resident...

A bail application for the man who is accused of having over 300 Gas Pro cylinders, including 100 hidden in his bedroom, was again rejected in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court...

Christopher Thomas, Star Writer The trial for party promoter Gregory Lindo failed to begin in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday, but has instead been put off for next month....

An Ananda alert has been activated for 15-year-old Dawiya Edwards and 16-year-old Ashawnie Williams, both of Mannings Hill Road, Kingston8, who have been missing since February 4, 2012. Dawiya...

Ryan Nelsen headlines an 18-man All Whites squad to play Jamaica in an international football friendly at Mt Smart Stadium on February 29, but the big omission is that of World Cup hero Rory Fallon. ...

Robert Bailey, Gleaner WriterUPSET by calls deemed unfair, Tivoli Gardens' head coach, Glendon 'Admiral' Bailey, and members of his team launched a verbal assault against match...

Nodley Wright, Gleaner WriterAfter a one-week break, Montego Bay United will seek to resume their climb up the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) table when they host Boys' Town at 6 p.m. today in...

Jermaine Lannaman, Gleaner WriterSidelined West Indies and Barbados fast bowler Tino Best says it would be foolhardy for Jamaica's batsmen to go at him during this weekend's second round of...

Orville Clarke, Gleaner WriterJUSTIN ON FIRE should make amends for his close fourth to WINCHESTER on January 28 with a win in the restricted allowance IV (non-winners of three) for the Howard...

JAMAICA is one of four Caribbean and Central American countries that will benefit from a US$15-million pilot project that seeks to reform and finance the management of wastewater in the...

THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that no Jamaican was among the 10 migrant workers who died Monday in a motor vehicle crash in Ontario, Canada - one of the deadliest road accidents in the eastern...

SAGICOR Life Jamaica and Pan Caribbean Financial Services used their annual staff motivational meeting this year to recognise Jamaica's 50th year of political...

In a dramatic and symbol gesture, police in Jamaica have melted down more than 2,000 illegal handguns seized as part of crackdown against violent crime and drug trafficking. According to reports,...

International News: KINGSTON, Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing...

Only days after Professor Errol Miller, chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), vowed that decisive action was being pursued in the aftermath of electoral irregularities in the parish,...

Lead-up to killing In the days leading up to the discovery of the body, their father is reported to have gone to the country while the deceased's 15-year-old son, who was staying with Stacy-Ann...

PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller says her Government will be providing assistance to the families of the two St Andrew College schoolboys who drowned in Portland last week. Simpson Miller,...

THE GOVERNMENT has confirmed reports that bauxite mining firm, UC Rusal, has been taking some of its equipment out of the island and sending it to...

Shaw, speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday, said the move would provide students with a safer means of being transported to school."I think that this honourable House (of...

COMMISSIONER OF Police Owen Ellington wants strong provisions in the proposed anti-gang legislation to decisively tackle organised crime and gangs in Jamaica. Ellington indicated yesterday that the...

A no-case submission was made yesterday by defence lawyers representing Leighton 'Livity' Coke, brother of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus'...

WHILE NOTING the seriousness of the breach at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, Minister of National Security Peter Bunting will not comment on the circumstances that led...