What, again?  Andrew Tate and his brother arrested in Miami for rape and sexual assault

Reading Time: 4 minutesThey never saw it coming.  On Saturday, hyper-masculinity media darlings and kickboxers Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested by U.S. marshals to face rape and sexual assault charges…

Senate paid tribute to Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes

Reading Time: 2 minutesJamaica’s Upper House of Parliament paid tribute to the island’s Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, this Friday. He was treated to a special reading of selected works at the sitting…

T&T’s High Court permanently halt efforts to extradite Jack Warner to America

Reading Time: 3 minutesFormer FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has won a landmark legal victory after more than a decade of extradition proceedings, as Trinidad and Tobago’s (T& T’s) High Court has ordered a…

Southwest Airlines plans big Caribbean expansion including Jamaica 

Reading Time: 2 minutesAmerica’s Southwest Airlines is launching a major new Caribbean expansion led by four Saturday-only routes from Nashville International Airport to Jamaica, Aruba and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The airline is also adding Saturday…

NHF wins the Greta Bogues Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance

Reading Time: 2 minutes The National Health Fund (NHF) has again secured the Greta Bogues Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance, emerging as the Overall Winner at the 2025 Public Bodies’ Corporate Governance Awards….

Jamaica records five per cent increase in child abuse reports

Reading Time: 2 minutesJamaica recorded more than 14,600 reports of child abuse and care concerns in 2025, marking a five per cent increase over the previous year, according to new data from the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).

The figures, published in the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 2025, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on June 30, show that the National Children’s Registry (NCR) received 14,602 reports last year, compared with 13,918 reports in 2024.