PM offers comfort to family of slain 9-y-o girl

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust when we received the good news that murders and crimes are receding, comes the shocking case of the rape and murder of 9-year-old Kelsey Cassidy Ferrigon on Friday May…

PM: Government weighing public access to Sex Offenders Registry

Reading Time: 2 minutesPrime Minister Andrew Holness has outlined that the government is reviewing the policies of the Sex Offenders Registry to determine whether public access could help keep communities safer.

Holness made the announcement after visiting Georgia Anderson, the grieving mother of nine-year-old Kelsey Anderson, who was brutally murdered on Friday.

English national arrested after US$130,490 found in shampoo bottles at airport 

Reading Time: 2 minutesEnglish national Trevor Whyte, a 42-year-old ‘recording artiste’ and businessman, has been arrested and charged for ‘possession of criminal property’, ‘cross-border movement of funds’ and ‘attempted bribery’ following his arrival at the Sangster International…

PSOJ condemns brutal murder of 9-y-o girl, calls for urgent national response

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) said is horrified and deeply saddened by the brutal and senseless rape and murder of 9-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon in St Catherine, whose body…

Opposition demands truth over Dunn’s River water report

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is expressing concerns about what it claims to be the “increasingly repressive and anti-democratic posture” of the Holness administration, surrounding the fallout from a…

U.S.-China tariff delay gives Fed fresh reason to sit tight on rates

Reading Time: 2 minutesWASHINGTON (Reuters) The Federal Reserve got one more reason to wait on cutting interest rates after a delay of the most punitive tariffs imposed in the Trump administration’s trade battle…