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A bus with 23 passengers, mostly children, on an Easter Sunday holiday excursion to Ocho Rios in St Ann crashed in Fern Gully on Sunday, killing one person and injuring everyone else on board. Forty-nine-year-old Suzette Thomas, a housekeeper of a...

A strategic plan to restore the image of the sole internationally-approved maritime education and training university in the Western Hemisphere has begun to bear fruit. Employing a multipronged approach to repair the massive reputational damage as...

Started in 1978 by Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon, and surviving on the generosity of donors worldwide, the Mustard Seed Communities provides a safe haven for those rejected and abandoned by their families and society. The non-profit organisation,...

THE INDEPENDENT Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is likely to reconstruct a crime scene and, along with postmortem findings, piece together its evidence to determine who fired the fatal bullet which struck a female passenger in a moving...

DCS gets new commissioner of corrections The Ministry of National Security yesterday announced the appointment of Brigadier Radgh Mason as the new commissioner of corrections in the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). Mason takes office...

DEVON MCDANIEL, a 51-year-old furniture business operator from Warsop in Trelawny, is set to represent the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next general election in South Trelawny. The seat became vacant in September 2023 when member of parliament...

Dubbing the Jamaica Customs Agency's (JCA) new Contactless Clearance policy illegal and unconstitutional, the Customs Brokers...

A student of Oberlin High School is lucky to be alive and recovering in a Corporate Area hospital after a sharp instrument was used, reportedly by another student, to inflict a serious head wound which required surgery. The police and school...

HEAD OF Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) Ainsley Powell says there is no plan for any employee to be sanctioned over the situation where the agency has spent almost $400 million for the leasing of two buildings that remain unoccupied. The TAJ has...

A 17-YEAR-OLD student of Jamaica College (JC) was left hospitalised after criminals robbed him of his cell phone and stabbed him outside the gates of the National Stadium in Kingston on Friday, where the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...

TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March Movement, Dr...

According to Dr Cheryl McLaughlin, deputy managing director of the National Training and Programmes Division of the HEART/NSTA Trust, there’s no longer any justification for Jamaicans to view the Trust as an organisation whose sole purpose is to...