His family, teachers, and alma mater Charlemont High School are celebrating the fulfilment of a promise – Dr Kevin Blake, the punctual boy who excelled in agriculture and information technology, becoming the head of Jamaica’s 156-year-old police...
WESTERN BUREAU: When operatives from the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (CTOC) swooped down on the volatile Grange Hill community in Westmoreland in 2018 and arrested 27 men and women linked to the King Valley Gang, law...
WESTERN BUREAU: Plagued with a range of unbearable issues at their “luxury homes”, frustration is mounting in Pyramid Point in Ocho Rios, St Ann, where at least two homeowners are crying foul over what they describe as a “rip-off” by the housing...
THERE IS a need for more public education around what constitutes violent discipline before any move to institute a total ban on corporal punishment, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has asserted. Her comments follow the findings of the...
HUNDREDS OF University of Technology (UTech) students could be left without lecturers on Monday as more than 300 members of the academic staff have vowed to stay home to register their dissatisfaction with the lack of progress on the compensation...
THE FIGHT to safeguard thousands of vulnerable marine life in the deep sea is still ongoing. This, as several governments are coming under pressure from business interests to grant them the go-ahead to extract precious minerals from the ocean floor...
WESTERN BUREAU: ON THE heels of two St James councillors being unable to take their appointed seats for affirming instead of swearing their oaths, Bishop Conrad Pitkin, the president of the National Religious Liberty Association, has warned against...
THE MINISTRY of Education and Youth says it will be seeking $1.5 billion from the finance ministry towards the procurement and installation of closed-circuit security television (CCTV) surveillance systems in schools across the island. Richard...
PRIME MINISTER Andrew Holness says the introduction of the National Identification System (NIDS) is a critical step in Jamaica fully becoming a digital society and is urging Jamaicans to embrace the technology. Speaking at the launch of the...
THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition has accused the Jamaican Government of poorly managing the 2022 Population and Housing Census, even as Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke denies that the process has been compromised. Opposition Spokesperson on Finance...
ONE OF the lawyers who represented Rushelle Foster believes she would have been acquitted of manslaughter arising from the 2019 stabbing death of 23-year-old Reggae Girl Tarania Clarke if the jury was given adequate directions by the presiding...
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESS AND civic leaders in Westmoreland have welcomed the initiative to construct a new headquarters for the Westmoreland Police Division. The state-of-the-art police facility will be built at a cost of $2.7 billion over the next...
Barbados-born businessman Omar Collymore had been communicating non-stop with a man in the days leading up to his wife’s murder and, in one of the texts sent two days before her death, was urging the person “to hurry up” and to “ do it this morning...
One of the attorneys who represented dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel in a previous appeal of his 2014 trial yesterday declared that she felt vindicated by the ruling of the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council, quashing the murder conviction of...
News of the United Kingdom (UK) Privy Council ruling, quashing the murder convictions of renowned Jamaican dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and three others, quickly spread through his Waterford community, located in Portmore, St Catherine. Vybz...
WITH A planned meeting between the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and finance and the public sector Minister Dr Nigel Clarke set for this Saturday to discuss anomalies in the compensation-review exercise, Opposition Spokesman on...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Municipal Corporation [StJMC] has given an assurance that two Jamaica Labour Party [JLP] councillors who were unable to take their seats in the corporation’s monthly meeting yesterday, because of affirming rather than...
Students of the Seaward Primary and Infant School were challenged yesterday to overcome their fear of mathematics. In commemoration of International Day of Mathematics, which was observed on March 14, the school aimed to showcase the importance...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE SECOND person in her family to have achieved the century landmark, Keturah Headley-Campbell has set an example for generations in the family to follow by eating healthy foods and making a living off raising chickens. Born in the...
Slain businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore had pleaded with her husband, Omar Collymore, to give their marriage a second chance and to resume living with her and their children, two months before she was murdered in a contract-style killing...
THE JAMAICAN Government has defended its decision to remove general consumption tax (GCT) from all raw food, imported or domestic, indicating that it chose the lesser of two evils to avoid trade sanctions. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke told...
JAMAICANS AND global fans of incarcerated dancehall star Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer will tune in today to the Privy Council as they wait with bated breath to hear the fate of the popular entertainer, who is hoping to have his murder conviction...
FORMER DEPUTY commissioner of police Mark Shields has hailed the appointment of Dr Kevin Blake as the new commissioner of police, noting that his background in technology and his deep understanding of how information technology can revolutionise...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is yet to establish a policy for treating Haitian refugees who arrive on the shores of member states even amid the decision to establish a presidential council for the violence-torn country that would oversee a...
According to data from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime’s (GI-TOC) 2023 Global Organised Crime Index, 83 per cent of the global population is living in high-crime conditions. In his presentation during the Annual...
