Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has admitted that there is now a local spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus following yesterday's confirmation of 19 cases of the flu in the island.

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Hector Burton, a man accused of beating his wife because she challenged him about a woman he was hiding in their home, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

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Fire of unknown origin destroyed a three-bedroom dwelling house at Bellfield, Browns Hall, St Catherine, yesterday. No one was injured in the incident.

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The Hanover division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade has had to deal with more than 300 per cent increase in fires between January to May of this year, compared with the similar period last year.

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A man charged with indecent assault after being accused of fondling and 'wining' up on a woman while she slept, was sentenced to 10 days in jail after admitting that he had only been "playing with himself".

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After years of being raised by members of his extended family, 32-year-old Wayne Watson is determined to find the family he never knew. Watson was born on December 24, 1976, at the Victoria Jubilee ...

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Everton Henry has been a single father for about 10 years. Although at times, he had no job, with the help of family members he managed to put his daughter, Sherice, through primary school....

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A special constable who was accused of beating a passenger on a minibus was freed yesterday after Resident Magistrate Paula Blake Powell upheld a no-case submission by defence lawyer Peter Champagnie. Denton Davis, 46, was freed..

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The body of an unidentified man, believed to be in his early 20s, was found on a verandah at Rose Heights, Montego Bay, St James, on Monday.

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The crime statistics for the month of May, released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force yesterday, show a decline in major crimes like murder, shooting and rape when compared with the corresponding figures...

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