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Lawyers who have accused the Holness administration of threatening the constitutional right citizens have to legal representation by the non-exemption of attorneys under COVID-19 curfew orders will see a reversal this week, according to Senate…

Sheka Robinson believes that a pang in her stomach while she was at work last Friday morning, followed by a teacup shattering, were omens of the fatal shooting of her 16-year-old son, Dave Tyrrell, in Denham Town, west Kingston. His murder, around…

The government-imposed lockdown of St Catherine to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus has had a particularly devastating impact on the fortunes of Harkers Hall couple Christine Roberts and Michael Wilson. Wilson, who owns a full-operational…

One inmate has been taken in, but a manhunt is still under way for seven other prisoners who escaped custody at the Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew on Sunday. The escapees have been charged with a variety of crimes, including murder, illegal…

RICHIE LOOP likens his love for music to that of a relationship with a woman who craves attention. “The very same music you love, she’ll leave you the moment you stop giving her the attention she needs,” the recording artiste surmised in an…

CANNABIS CONNOISSEURS need not worry, because the Southern California-based Green Holdings Group will unite them all today with the World’s Largest Virtual Sesh on Instagram Live. Hosted by rap group Too Short, viewers will have the opportunity to…

NEW YORK (AP): LADY GAGA, Stevie Wonder, Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and others sang classic songs brimmed with messages of hope and change during a TV special aimed at fighting the coronavirus, while Beyoncé and Alicia Keys spoke passionately about how…

During last summer’s ’90s Dancehall US Tour, Keton Cole of Solja Life Records thought it would be a good idea for two of its acts to do a ‘weed song’. That single, Marijuana Obsession by Sly Rankin and Jigsy King, is released today to mark 4/20.

Mark Golding, former minister of justice in the People’s National Party administration (2012—2016), championed groundbreaking legislation to relax Jamaica’s ganja laws in 2014.As a consequence, people found in possession of ganja weighing two ounces or less would not be arrested but would be required to pay a fine. The decriminalisation of the ‘weed’ was hailed […]

US-BASED, Jamaican-born singjay, Dermy Dee —who is currently recovering from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York — is appealing to St Catherine residents to heed the guidelines set out by the Government, and refrain from trying to flee the parish which is currently under lockdown.St Catherine was placed on lockdown last Tuesday.