Policymakers need to pay more attention to the roles of women as facilitators of organised crime in Jamaica, and implement anti-gang measures targeted at females, a study by the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), launched on Tuesday, has...
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic devastated Latin America and the Caribbean, employment rates have improved. However, the quality of jobs remains a major concern, with a significant portion of the workforce still engaged in informal and...
They gathered on Duke Street, facing each other from the opposing Charles Street and Sutton Street intersections. Two noisy groups – marked by political colours, bells and vuvuzelas – their sights fixed on the ultimate prize: Gordon House. Each was...
Trench Town, the birthplace of many reggae legends, is celebrated globally by fans from all corners of the world, with some even travelling great distances and renting Airbnbs just to experience its essence. Yet despite its cultural significance,...
Doctors and other staff at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) are reportedly fuming over new parking arrangements set up by the hospital’s management to curb a parking lot gridlock that was preventing easy access to the facility’s Accident and...
Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby on Tuesday criticised his predecessor, Delroy Williams, for allowing building works to proceed without the necessary permits during his time in office. Swaby’s remarks were a key topic at the Kingston and St Andrew...
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has committed to removing rotting decommissioned utility poles that residents of George’s Lane in Central Kingston claim have been cause for concern for close to two years. Things became unbearable for the residents...
The community of Savanna in Hayes, Clarendon, particularly members of its Police Youth Club, is still searching for answers following the murder of a man and the injury of three others in a multiple-shooting incident on Sunday night. Youth club...
When Kadian Glenn took her daughter to Jessie Ripoll Primary on the first day of school, the crying youngster – adamant she did not want to be left there – was met by a cheerful, down-to-earth gentleman, who Glenn said spent much of the day...
Shirley Morgan-Bowen was attending a church crusade in Hayes, Clarendon, on Sunday night when gunshots rang out a short distance away. But Morgan-Bowen said she was so caught up in the intense worship session that she did not hear the gunfire that...
Residents of Dunsinane district in Mandeville, Manchester, blocked a road leading to a local quarry on Thursday to protest against the dust nuisance, which they claim is the primary cause of respiratory illnesses in the community. The residents...
A coroner’s hearing into the death of popular Manchester businessman Jason Neil was rescheduled to February 27 after a forensic analyst providing evidence to the court via the Internet had technical issues. Judge Monique Harrison was forced to ask...
This year will be one of changes, featuring a series of “destiny helpers” impacting the country’s affairs and making things better. It is a belief several pastors in the Corporate Area’s toughest communities held as they rung in the new year on...
The local social media community, particularly TikTokers, was plunged into grief over the weekend, following Saturday night’s brazen murder of Xavier Fogah, more popularly known as ‘Niah Gang’, whose death has left another child without a father...
Though the social issues are many – from unstable houses to decrepit roadways and overflowing sewage that has plagued his constituency for decades – Prime Minister Andrew Holness believes that the erection of an Olympic Way Community Cultural...
When one of the handful of students at Claverty Cottage Primary, Jamaica’s now-least populated institution, broke a limb several years ago, it was up to principal Julane King-Walker to transport the child several miles to hospital. Five miles from...
There was frustration and confusion outside the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre yesterday, after visitors turned up with food for their incarcerated relatives, only to be turned away by prison authorities at the gate. Yesterday, Joyce Stone...
The screams of mothers desperately searching for their children echoed through Pleasant Heights in Rockfort on Monday night after five men were shot dead at a football competition/peace get-together in the east Kingston community. Around noon on...
The Senataz Youth Club in Denham Town, one of the seven zones of special operations (ZOSOs) declared by the Government, last Thursday hosted a street dance on Regent Street in Kingston, where both gangsters from the community and their arch nemeses...
In many cases they turn up at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital’s Accident and Emergency section in pain, with difficulty breathing, or vomiting, as the poisons make their way through their nimble systems - all the time their parents close in tow...
Newly installed Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby has promised greater collaboration with players in the booming local real estate sector, but warned that they must conform to Jamaica’s building and planning laws. “At the KSAMC, we know that we cannot...
Tough-talking Venesha Phillips, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for the Papine division in East St Andrew, was whipped yesterday by 259 votes in the 2021 local government elections, signalling a massive blow to her ego and the JLP’s...
It is celebrated in some circles, touted even by some hoteliers as the latest pull factor for foreigners to the island, but the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) says it is keeping eye on the proliferation of ‘magic mushrooms’, for which there...
He owns a registered business, and all his known addresses and places of work have been visited and messages left for him to turn himself in. Still, a developer embroiled in a multimillion-dollar land fraud case, involving the National Land Agency...
