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December 10, 2025
Gas prices down
Motorists will pay less for gas come Thursday. The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 is to move down by $2.03 to sell for $152.32 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will go down by $2.04…
December 10, 2025
Disaster relief honorarium to employees to be tax exempt
Cabinet has approved amendments to the Income Tax Act to facilitate a regime that allows for a non-taxable treatment of disaster relief honorarium made by employers to employees during periods in…
December 10, 2025
Update | Judge refuses bail to St Catherine man charged for allegedly selling rented motor car
A St Catherine judge today refused bail to a man charged with larceny for allegedly selling a car he had rented, after it was revealed that he has several convictions for larceny. The court was…
December 10, 2025
32 cases of fatalities still under investigation following Hurricane Melissa
Thirty two deaths remain under investigation in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa’s passage in October. Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM),…
December 10, 2025
Police charge Kingston man for allegedly entering motorist’s car and robbing him
The police have charged a man accused of entering the vehicle of a motorist who had stopped to give passage to another driver, and then robbing him of money and other valuables. Osaka Gillespie, 38,…
December 10, 2025
Trump says US has seized oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. …
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
‘Knockout blow’
The Supreme Court has thrown out an application brought by the People’s National Party’s Paul Buchanan to overturn the results of the St Andrew West Central general election which he lost to Prime…
December 9, 2025
by Sashana Small
Kingston Tech principal suspended
Principal of Kingston Technical High School Maulton Campbell has been suspended from the institution following an audit report, concerns over a hiring decision, and a formal complaint submitted by a…
December 9, 2025
‘Serious mistake’
The Court of Appeal says it overturned an ex-policeman’s 2021 murder conviction after finding that his claim of self-defence was not properly addressed during the trial, a lapse that undermined the…