Junior National Security Minister Zavia Mayne wants the courts to mandate that convicts participate in rehabilitation programmes offered by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), rather than leave it to them to voluntarily enrol. “If a man...
The image of Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend’s partially nude, decomposing body floating in the sea at Reading, St James, still haunts her uncle, Rohan Lennard. It was the last one he saw of his fashionista niece who took so much pride in her...
Despite her high-flying, flamboyant image, late social-media personality Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend has been hailed as a down-to-earth friend and committed mother. The last photo Townsend posted on her Instagram page at a popular restaurant was...
As Corporal Oliver Mullings prepared to head to work last Thursday afternoon, he asked his wife, Josephine Parker-Mullings, if she had lunch money for the children for Friday. She recounts him pledging to return home in time to provide the funds...
A young woman who was infected with HIV after being raped more than two decades ago is seeking assistance to cover her medical bills after a recent bout of illness cast uncertainty over her life and depleted her savings. The woman, who told The...
Pamelleta Williams held her stomach and broke down in tears on Thursday upon seeing the team of police officers and officials entering her home in Maxfield Park, St Andrew, to show their support as she grieved the murder of her 22-year-old son,...
Even as news of a man being murdered on North Street spread through Denham Town on Wednesday, residents remained adamant that the crime situation would have been worse had a zone of special operations (ZOSO) not been declared in the troubled west...
Every October 15 for the past eight years, Donharley Harley would host a memorial fish fry on his late father’s birthday. But last Saturday, as the 36-year-old prepared to host the event near his family home on Willow Drive in Cockburn Gardens, he...
Ascot High Principal Shannell Talbert said he has been left disappointed after one of his students was physically assaulted by a parent in the vicinity of the Portmore, St Catherine-based school on Wednesday. According to Talbert, the incident took...
President of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) O’Neil Grant says the union has placed the issue of duty concessions on motor vehicles on the “back burner” as they work to reach an agreement with the Government on the restructuring of...
Security consultant Mark Shields believes that security companies should provide more technology-based services instead of relying solely on manpower. His suggestion comes as a 50 per cent cost increase looms over the industry after a recent...
Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams is suggesting that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) consider housing high-risk criminals in its custody at Up Park Camp, the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force. Adams said such a move...
The Government is to embark on what it says is the biggest build-out of tax offices across Jamaica over the next several years. Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke made the announcement on Wednesday while addressing graduates of the Tax Audit and...
WARDS AT the South Camp Juvenile Remand and Correctional Centre are now being offered courses in robotics and coding. Deputy commissioner of rehabilitation and probation aftercare services in the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Dr Marc...
In his more than two decades as a fisherman, Glasford Alexander Mitchell has faced a lot of dangers at sea, but two experiences stand out vividly in his mind. “I can remember, one Sunday morning I went to sea. It was a tough morning, I didn’t...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is seeking to bolster Jamaica’s counter-terrorism and investigative capacity by administering a suite of bachelor’s degrees in police sciences, forensic sciences, and cybersecurity and digital forensics....
President of the Nursing Association of Jamaica (NAJ), Patsy Edwards-Henry, has accused the Ministry of Health of not doing adequate consultation before the mass recruitment of overseas nurses as part of the $1.3-billion ‘Code Care’ initiative...
If Angela Christian could have one wish granted, it would be to have enough money to buy two houses to foster more children. Fifteen years ago, she opened her home to a four-year-old boy, who was placed in state care because his parents were drug...
Seventeen-year old Lincoln Roy Chin’s grandmother died mere days before he was scheduled to sit his first Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exam. His grandmother, Hazel Mary Washington, had come to live with his family when she got...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) is defending its use of sandbags at the upscale Ruthven Towers apartment complex as a precautionary measure against flooding amid continual rainfall from Hurricane Ian. Maintaining that the NHT is confident in the...
Jamaica was spared widespread flash floods or landslides Sunday as Tropical Storm Ian continued its trajectory west of the island, with roads, electricity, and water supplies mostly holding up despite steady but light to moderate showers along the...
One hundred Jamaicans from across the public and private sectors and civil society are now better equipped to serve members of the deaf community after participating in the Sign Up Jamaica programme. The programme, which was organised by RISE Life...
Hundreds of former colleagues, relatives, friends, and admirers turned out on Wednesday to salute the man who they say impacted not just their lives, but changed how radio is perceived in Jamaica: the late François St Juste. The broadcaster died on...
In high school, Javon Smith’s friends nicknamed him ‘Merchant’ because of his penchant for sales. As he grew older, Smith sought job stability and took on a 9-5 job as an information systems manager. That entrepreneurial spirit fuelled his...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has called for the Government to include a referendum ballot to remove King Charles III as Jamaica’s head of state in the upcoming local government elections. The municipal polls are constitutionally...
