Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2024 | 12:11 AM
Jamaica is one step closer to becoming a republic and moving away from the British monarchy after the Government introduced a bill in Parliament to replace King Charles with a ceremonial Jamaican president as the island’s head of State. “The...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny police are seeking to identify a headless corpse discovered on Monday in the Wire Fence district. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and bed sheets. While the police were able to determine that the victim is a...
WESTERN BUREAU: Public Defender Carolyn Reid-Cameron is urging Jamaicans to familiarise themselves with the Constitution to have a full understanding of their basic human rights to guard against human trafficking. She was speaking at Tuesday’s...
Matthew Hyde’s ex-girlfriend has revealed that during the harrowing three days of her prolonged torture in a university dorm room in February 2023, she reached a point where she had given up on living. She said the ordeal not only left her...
Cenitech Engineering Solutions Ltd, whose application for leave to appeal to the United Kingdom (UK) Privy Council was refused by the Court of Appeal, is going directly by way of special leave to get a decision in relation to its loss of profit of...
Carvel McBean leaned on his crutches in front of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) yesterday, even as he contemplated his next move after prematurely being sent home by hospital officials in the wake of a sickout by junior doctors. McBean...
WESTERN BUREAU: Amid a strike by Jamaica’s junior doctors on Monday to protest compensation issues, Dr Delroy Fray warned that western public hospitals would not be able to cope with the resulting disruptions for more than 24 hours. But the doctors...
A string of violent incidents, including a double murder, have left residents of the volatile Rockfort community in east Kingston gripped by fear, bracing for another Christmas overshadowed by crime and violence. “Mi fraid suh till mi nuh wah come...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two young men were killed and three others left nursing serious injuries after a motorcar in which they were travelling crashed into an ackee tree along the Three Miles River main road in Westmoreland early Monday morning. The...
WESTERN BUREAU: Sherona Small, the Westmoreland Festival Queen, has taken on an ambitious project to help teenagers who struggle with teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and poverty. Having personally observed the struggles that school-age children...
Popular social media platform TikTok and its live feature have been featured in two separate incidents, a murder and a fugitive surrender operation, in less than 24 hours in Jamaica between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The incidents took no...
WESTERN BUREAU: The economic partnership between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic has reached unprecedented levels, with bilateral trade totalling US$134 million, Dominican Ambassador Angie Martinez said during a Diamond Gala reception last...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) says it plans to invest J$17 billion in infrastructure upgrades in 2025 as part of its efforts to improve the country’s power grid. According to the light and power company, the investment will focus...
The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), in partnership with Behavioural Dynamics Solutions Ltd, has undertaken an initiative to explore and mitigate the growing societal disengagement from the political process....
WESTERN BUREAU: Brian Jardim, whose journey across multiple industries has not only built an enviable career but also touched countless lives, is the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Leader Wall of Fame inductee for 2024....
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...
In 2001, Lois Harris was one of several teachers recruited from Jamaica by the New York City (NYC) Department of Education under its international teacher recruitment programme, and, like so many others, her sojourn to New York was to include a...
Born and raised in the gritty inner-city community of Grants Pen, St Andrew, Kalisha Dixon is spreading her Jamaican roots in Maryland, where she has been elected council member for the town of Bladensburg. Dixon ran on a Democratic ticket,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Claudette Thompson has argued that public demands for harsher punishments – such as the death penalty as clamoured for in cases of mass murder – ring hollow when many of those calling for...
Sixty-five of Jamaica’s 173 high schools are overpopulated, raising concerns about teaching quality, learning conditions, and resource availability in institutions accommodating more students than their designed capacity. It further highlights the...
An Edith Dalton James High School teacher, who has been off the job for three months on sick leave, is blaming her illness on “mould infestation” at the institution, claiming that the administration is not addressing the issue with any urgency....
Overwhelmed by more than $1.4 million in medical debt and watching her teenage son grow increasingly despondent each day, Charlotte Nembhard has made the difficult decision to offer him one of her kidneys in the hope of giving him a fighting chance...
Member of Parliament for St Mary Central, Dr Morais Guy, is calling on the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to prioritise restoring power to National Water Commission (NWC) facilities during power outages to expedite water restoration for consumers....
Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson is pushing for a legal opinion from Jamaica’s attorney general on whether the imposition of fees by commercial banks on customers’ dormant accounts constitutes a breach of the banking laws. Despite the removal of...
WESTERN BUREAU: The highly anticipated verdict in the trial of British national Kay-Ann Anderson, who allegedly attempted to smuggle one kilogram of cocaine disguised as patties, has been postponed to December 13. Anderson appeared in the St James...
