Five hundred and eighty-three students remain temporarily relocated to other schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which lashed Jamaica in October last year. The Category-5 hurricane was particularly brutal to the western end of the island...
A national groundbreaking project to provide genomic evidence for precision medicine for select chronic diseases among black people in Canada has been launched in Toronto. Its goal is to help create better healthcare that meets the needs of black...
Only a handful of major and small hotels remain closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, as the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) anticipates a strong end to the winter season this year. Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, made the claim in a...
More than 60 per cent of Jamaican men are having sexual intercourse with multiple partners, according to a study on males’ sexual practices which also suggests that droves of them are engaging in transactional sex. The research, dubbed Sexual and...
WESTERN BUREAU: State Minister in the Ministry of Industry Investment and Commerce Delano Seiveright, says sustained pressure from corporate Montego Bay was a critical factor in the rapid restoration of electricity and other essential services...
Government Senator Rose Bennett-Cooper has called for the administration to roll out a comprehensive public education exercise to inform Jamaicans with old, non-custodial convictions on how to have their criminal records expunged. She made the call...
By the time patients reach the final stretch of their lives, the questions they bring to Dr Kanchana Bandara Coore are rarely medical alone. They are about children who will be left behind, marriages that still need tending, estranged relatives who...
A 68-year-old man’s lifelong dream of owning a home is in jeopardy amid claims that the Ministry of Housing has encroached on his property in Spanish Town, St Catherine. Fighting back tears, Willie Rowe said his long-held ambition was derailed last...
WESTERN BUREAU: Three months after Hurricane Melissa struck western Jamaica, large sections of the community cable network remain dark, leaving operators to confront an estimated $1.4 billion in losses and the possibility that locally owned media...
Lawmakers should consider amending the laws governing public bodies with investigative powers by including provisions to protect citizens from reputational damage, legal experts have suggested. The suggestion comes amid confirmation by The Sunday...
At 83, Albertha H. is clear about one thing: she will not be tempting fate by making a will. “You a invite dead?” she fires back, half-laughing, half-challenging, when asked if she worries about dying without one. Then, with the kind of sprightly...
Agriculture Minister Floyd Green yesterday admitted in the Home Circuit Court that, while he witnessed parts of a 2013 police operation along Acadia Drive, St Andrew, he did not see the actual killing of three men during the incident. During cross...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Delroy Chuck is warning justices of the peace (JPs) not to witness signatures being made by people they do not know, or they might land themselves in hot water on criminal charges for...
At 21, Stephen Simpson and Zakari Messam have turned a shared impulse into something more durable. What began during the COVID-19 pandemic as informal conversations about giving back – initially centred on a modest Easter initiative – has evolved...
PANAMA CITY, Panama: Jamaica’s foreign minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, has issued a clarion call to international investors to partner in the strategic redevelopment of the island’s western corridor, drawing on a decade of tax stability and...
Having spent years at the helm of Jamaica’s largest financial institution, new president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Patrick Hylton says he will use his experience to pave the way for businesses to access much-needed...
Residents of Darliston, Westmoreland are expressing deep concern over the closure of the local post office, saying that the move has placed a dreaded financial and physical strain on pensioners, PATH beneficiaries and postal workers, particularly...
WESTERN BUREAU: Howard Wint, the senior director of operations in the western section of the Jamaica Customs Agency, has called for the church to pray for customs officers, particularly for integrity, wisdom and strength, as they operate under...
Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith says Jamaica’s economic independence is dependent on its ability to balance competing global interests amid mounting geopolitical tensions. Johnson Smith was among a panel of foreign ministers...
Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green told the Home Circuit Court on Thursday that he was not anticipating giving evidence when he wrote an anonymous letter to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) following the fatal 2013 police...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Mark Malabver has reiterated his call for every school in the island to have a dean of discipline, expressing disappointment that both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of...
Award-winning physicist and founder of The Blackett Lab Family, Dr Mark Richards, has identified a shift in mindset from theory to solutions as the biggest challenge facing Jamaica’s education system in fully embracing science, technology,...
They objected to doing it alone, and after years of briefs, late nights and legal arguments, the court of perseverance rendered a unanimous verdict: law school finished, the Jamaican Bar passed, together. For 25-year-old Jana-Lee Henry and her...
The Government is moving to introduce far-reaching legislation aimed at establishing a regulatory framework for shared residential and commercial property that are not governed under the Registration (Strata Titles) Act because they do not meet the...
Hundreds of mourners defied sub-freezing temperatures, journeying from near and far to pack into Saint Andrew’s Apostolic Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, last Saturday to pay final tribute to Ambassador Curtis ‘Rustie’ Ward,...
