72-y-o man sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping, molesting underage relative

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 72-year-old man has been sentenced in the St Catherine Home Circuit Court to ten years in prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape and sexual touching…

Clergyman named as person of interest in case of elderly woman found in ‘mummified state’

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Westmoreland Police Division is appealing to Delroy Jones, a Jamaican national currently believed to be residing in Colorado, United States of America, to make urgent contact with investigators.

Jones is being sought as a person of interest in the ongoing investigation surrounding the death and subsequent concealment of the body believed to be that of 72-year-old Viola Destin, whose remains were discovered on Sunday, July 6, at a residence in Old Hope District, Little London, Westmoreland

Still no consensus on deep-sea mining rules at ISA Kingston meetings

Reading Time: 3 minutesDurrant Pate/ Contributor After two weeks of negotiations in Kingston, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has still not found consensus on rules for deep-sea mining, even under heightened pressure triggered…

New JUTC bus damaged in stoning incident after being commissioned into service

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the new Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses commissioned into service on Tuesday, July 15, was damaged in a stoning incident along Washington Boulevard, St Andrew, a day later.

The state-owned bus company, in a statement, has appealed to Jamaicans to desist from stoning its buses. While no one was injured in the latest incident, JUTC said it was filled with passengers at the time.

Chevron wins huge legal fight against Exxon to close $53 Hess acquisition—getting access to the biggest oil discovery of the century

Reading Time: 3 minutesChevron won its hotly contested legal battle against rival Exxon Mobil, allowing it to immediately close its $53 billion acquisition of Hess on July 18 and give the Big Oil major…

G20 finance chiefs back central banks’ independence as they seal communique

Reading Time: 2 minutesDURBAN (Reuters) Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 countries stressed the importance of central bank independence in a communique issued on Friday following a two-day meeting in South Africa’s…