KINGSTON, Jamaica—Barbadian businessman Omar Collymore, who is serving a double life sentence for masterminding the January 2018 murder of his then-wife, Simone Campbell-Collymore, and cab driver Winston Walters, will on Wednesday be engulfed in a fresh trial. This time, to answer charges that he conspired to murder another woman with whom he was in a relationship. Details of the alleged plot will be unveiled on Wednesday when the Crown lays...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it is recommitting to continue along a path of pursuing additional policies that show care for society's most vulnerable as it marks the July 15, 1999, "Street People Scandal", where some 32 homeless people were kidnapped in St James and dumped at a mud lake in St Elizabeth. JLP General Secretary Senator Charles Sinclair, in a statement on Wednesday, described...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Michael Lee-Chin’s Portland Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Turkish nuclear technology company Nuclean to explore opportunities in Türkiye’s growing nuclear energy sector. The agreement establishes a framework through which the companies will consider cooperation in workforce training, technology, industrial supply-chain development and potential investment and financing opportunities. It was signed at the Nuclear Power Plants and Energy Summit in Istanbul with the support...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Transport Operators Development Sustainable Service (TODSS) is calling for an immediate review of the Road Traffic and Transport Authority Act, arguing that key provisions of the legislation are unfairly affecting public transport operators and threatening the viability of the sector. The organisation is also urging transport operators to boycott all planned traffic ticket days and instead utilise the courts to clear up outstanding traffic tickets until...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The International Criminal Court said Wednesday that it had rejected a challenge to the tribunal's jurisdiction by a former Libyan prison chief accused of killing, torturing and raping detainees. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri will face 17 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes between 2014 and 2020 when he was head of the women's section at the notorious Mitiga prison near Tripoli. The...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reggae Sumfest will pay tribute to the late reggae artiste Fantan Mojah during A Taste of Reggae Sumfest on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at Plantation Cove, St Ann, celebrating the life and legacy of one of Jamaica’s most respected cultural voices. Fantan Mojah, who passed away on July 14 at the age of 49, was a powerful advocate for conscious reggae music. He most recently performed on...

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—United States (US) President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at a decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to suspend the use of traffic stops after two fatal shootings in less than a week. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) halted the practice after a Colombian man was shot dead in Maine on Monday and a Mexican man was killed in an operation in Texas last week....

CARACAS, Venezuela (CMC) — Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has publicly thanked Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries for their humanitarian aid to the South American country following the June 24 twin earthquakes that killed thousands of people and left several others homeless. Caricom member states, including Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Haiti, have dispatched 88 containers of emergency supplies, medical specialists and equipment. The joint effort was loaded and shipped from...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Lebanon and Israel completed a new round of Washington-mediated negotiations in Rome on Wednesday, agreeing to implement the "pilot zones" in southern Lebanon agreed under a recent framework deal, a US official said. "Talks concluded after two days of productive and positive discussions," the official said in a statement shared by the US embassy in Beirut, adding that the participants "agreed on the structure and guidelines...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change Matthew Samuda has called for urgent, coordinated global action to accelerate progress toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs), delivering the official message of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) at the 2026 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development on Wednesday. Addressing the forum in New York, in his capacity as president of the UNEA, Samuda underscored that with only...

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