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The Government on Thursday evening announced a fare increase of 15 per cent for public passenger vehicle – bus and taxi – operators, except for the state-owned services, effective on Monday. The Government said the increase will have a ripple

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) James Forbes, who had his more than a six-year-old criminal conviction for corruption set aside by the Court of Appeal in February, returned to his job in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on Wednesday and has

Final of a three-part series Kimmo Matthews A photo of Wayne Palmer when he was a drug addict. We often forget that death hangs over us at all times. It lingers in the space we cannot touch, and in the blink of an eye, in only a second it can visit us and strip us bare of the most precious blessing of all, the gift of being alive. The 55-year-old man sat on a stone close to the Kingston waterfront last Thursday and watched with deep concentration as a seagull gracefully rose from off the grou...

Loop News Seven people were shot, two fatally in Red Hills Road, St Andrew on Saturday. Full details of the incident are not clear at this time but according to reports reaching our news centre, the victims were shot during a drive-by attack in the Park Lane section of the area. “We can confirm that two persons were pronounced dead and several others injured.  As it relates to the exact number of persons injured we cannot confirm at this time,” one official from the Corporal Com...

Loop News Lets Talk - Corporal Punishment Prime Andrew Holness is adamant that the Government will have to protect the children of the country by implementing legislation to ban corporal punishment. “It is full time that we stop hurting our children in the name of discipline,” said Holness while speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. It was a direct response to the perceived spanking death of four-year-old Nashawn Brown at the hands of his stepfather, 24-year-old Shaun Bennet...

Loop News Cops take cover close to May Pen Cemetery, Kingston during a shootout with gunmen on Tuesday. There is a large contingent of police and soldiers in the vicinity of May Pen Cemetery, Kingston. The lawmen and a group of gunmen are locked in a raging gun battle. Members of the Jamaica Defence Force were also at the location giving support to the police during the shootout with gunmen in the vicinity of the May Pen Cemetery in Kingston Reports are that the development has caused a traf...

Loop News The scene in Riverton where police and a group of men were locked in a gun battle Three gunmen were fatally shot during a police operation in Riverton City, St Andrew on Tuesday. Reports reaching Loop News are that two guns, an AK-47 rifle and a pistol were also recovered after the police and gunmen were involved in a gun battle a short while ago. More details later as Related Articles

Loop Sports - Updated Humble Lions Shemar Rhode is airborne as he jumps to control the ball during their fourth-round Claredon derby match against Vere United in the 2021 Jamaica Premier League – powered by Digicel – on Sunday at the UWI/JFF/Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence. Vere won the match 3-1 to hand Humble Lion their fourth straight defeat. The Shot of the Day was captured by Loop News photographer Marlon Reid. Related Articles

Loop News File photo of police operation. The curfew that was imposed in sections of Naggo Head in Portmore, St Catherine on Monday evening, which is due to be lifted at 6pm on Wednesday, July 14, is aimed at addressing “matters of concern” that the police have identified in the space. That is according to Senior Communications Strategist in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Dennis Brooks. “What I can confirm is that the constabulary has identified some potential flashpoints in the c...

Loop News Attorney General Marlene Malahoo-Forte The House of Representatives was forced to take a recess for several minutes Tuesday afternoon after Attorney General Marlene Malahoo-Forte appeared to collapse during the debate on the report on the Sexual Harassment Bill. Malahoo-Forte, the Member of Parliament for St James West Central, fell near the Speaker’s chair while Opposition MP, Dr Angela Brown-Burke was making her contribution to the debate.  The development forced House Speaker ...