The widow of St Andrew accountant Keith Clarke, who three Jamaica Defence Force soldiers have been accused of murdering in May 2010, is expected to start giving evidence today at the trial in the Home Circuit Court. Dr Claudette Clarke had taken...
Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2024 | 12:09 AM
Asha Wilks/Gleaner Writer The latest crop to be severely impacted by the ongoing drought affecting the agriculture sector is coconut. One stakeholder has expressed concern that farmers cultivating the crop may lose several of their well-...
WESTERN BUREAU: Detective Corporal Pearline Simmonds and Corporal Karen Austin were honoured by their commanding officer of the St Elizabeth Police Division Superintendent Coleridge Minto on Sunday for the role they continue to play in adopting and...
A commonly held view that wanton violence and crime cripples economic and social stability was put to test in communities of West Rural St Andrew over the past week, with several violent incidents occurring within hours of each other. The horror of...
WESTERN BUREAU Sergeant Kenroy Easy, the sub officer at the Morgan Bridge Police Station, says 43 per cent of the 35 murders reported in Westmoreland since the start of this year were committed in Zone Two, an area known widely for gang violence....
He is 103 years old and has just published his first book, dedicated to the forgotten farm workers of World War II who helped to defeat Nazi Germany. Meet John McHugh, a Jamaican and a printer by trade, but also one of the forgotten farm workers of...
In a desperate call to stakeholders in the education sector, and other interest groups, immediate past president of the Guidance Counsellors Association of Jamaica Angelica Dalrymple says urgent and radical interventions are needed to curb the...
When hundreds gathered to celebrate Europe Day 2024 last Thursday evening, Marianne Van Steen, European Union (EU) ambassador to Jamaica, declared there was not much happiness to cheer about. Van Steen, in giving her last welcome and remarks as...
Best defined as educational institutions and buildings designed to provide learning spaces and environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers, schools are where learners should maximise their potential for the development...
They were fêted, appreciated, and loved, and for most of them, the feeling was unusual. In fact, it’s quite rare for school security guards and ancillary staff, “the real heroes on the ground”, to be treated with such regard – and for some, it...
Determined to share her testimony in the hope that it will empower others, mother of two Sedonia Masters is raising her voice in a call for greater health education in Jamaica. Masters’ nine-year old son Azarie, her second child, suffers from...
The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service told the National Land Agency (NLA) in May 2023 that it did not approve removing a mandatory international qualification for a post later filled by a former political adviser, an apparent contradiction...
Lawyers from around the world who are specialist drafters of legislation are now in Jamaica for the beginning of the three-day biennial general meeting of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel, being held at the Ocean Eden Bay Hotel...
Only 12 persons have been brought before the courts for breaches of the Wildlife Protection Act in the last four years – an unacceptably low number, according to wildlife experts who have cited the decimation of the crocodile population as one...
A plea for unity in the diaspora to allow Jamaicans at home and abroad to prosper has been made by Jamaican pastor, Reverend Andrew Bennett. Rev Bennett, who is pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Flushing, Queens, said that there are so...
A man is dead after what residents of Craig Town in Kingston believe was an act of false pretense by his killer(s). The residents are alleging that the pretender(s) used a telephone number assigned to someone he knew to lure him to his death on...
Facey Commodity Company Limited is blaming the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company for a massive fire which destroyed its New Port West warehouse and other structures in Kingston almost three years ago and is seeking to recover more than $2...
Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Skills and Digital Transformation, has declared that the Government has no intention of using the Data Protection Act (DPA) to...
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) is the latest state-run agency to be hit by a cyberattack that has affected some aspects of the entity’s service delivery. BSJ, the statutory body established to promote and encourage standardisation in...
With less than three weeks before data controllers are required to conform to the requirements of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the minister with responsibility for skills and digital transformation is urging government entities and data...
Residents of Port Royal have embraced what they describe as much-needed renovations to their local recreational facility, the beach park playground. The Canadian Armed Forces and the people of Port Royal worked together to complete this project,...
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Delroy Fray, the clinical coordinator at the Western Regional Health Authority is making a fresh appeal for motorists to take greater care along the roadways due to trauma cases depleting the Cornwall Regional Hospital’s [CRH]...
WESTERN BUREAU: Richard Wallace, immediate past president of the Negril Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says a significant portion of members of the Nehgril workforce – tourism and otherwise – could lose their jobs if the water crisis in that...
While Perceval Singh was labelled a charitable and God-fearing man by one of two defence character witnesses, under cross-examination, the witness was unable to pinpoint any charity the former chairman of Petrojam was involved with or church he...
Dwayne Pink’s lawyer yesterday urged the jury to find him not guilty of the murder of Simone Campbell-Collymore and Winston Walters while arguing that the prosecution has failed to present any evidence to prove that Pink was involved in the deadly...
