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WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Circuit Court saw and listened to text messages on Wednesday that suggested that Gregory Roberts, the man currently on trial for the 2017 murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl Shineka Gray, was disturbingly obsessed with...

A very optimistic Andre Smith applied for the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP) in early 2022 and did the required interview. But, after waiting for months with no updates, he became a little discouraged. “To how the time weh...

Parents whose children attend Promise Learning Centre say they were left stumped after the school, which caters to students with autism and learning disabilities, indicated that it would not reopen today for the new academic term. In a letter...

For all his life, 88-year-old Noel Downer wanted to see the grave of his Jamaican grandfather, Private Theophilus Downer, who fought in World War I. Albeit not in the best of health, Noel hopes he will be able to make the summer trip with his...

General secretary of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) Dr Dayton Campbell has denied the claims filed in a defamation lawsuit by Cabinet Minister Daryl Vaz, calling his utterances on a political platform “fair comment”. Campbell’s...

WESTERN BUREAU: In the face of escalating gridlock between Jamaica’s bustling cities, a suggestion by Minister of Transport, Daryl Vaz, for the revival of intra-island domestic airline services has been met with an enthusiastic nod by aviation...

When Uriah Richards’ father died three days before the world ushered in the new year, he resolved that the time had come for him to engage in holy baptism. And, on the brink of 2024, immediately after Sunday’s sunset, just as hundreds of Jamaicans...

Shanice Sudlow was in downtown Kingston on New Year’s Eve with her three sons waiting to watch the fireworks that light up the sky annually to welcome the new year. However, the heavily pregnant 29-year-old’s anticipation for the main event was...

As Jamaicans came together to celebrate the arrival of a new year, police from across the Corporate Area and in May Pen, Clarendon were conducting operations that netted at least three firearms and several rounds of ammunition. In one instance,...

Naturalised Jamaican citizen Dushyant Savadia on New Year’s Eve fulfilled a lifelong dream when he arrived at the camp base of Mount Everest in the Himalayas and engraved Jamaica’s name at 18,500 feet on the world’s highest mountain range. “Yes, I...

As Jamaicans prepare to vote for their local representatives in the upcoming local government elections that are due by February 2024, the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) says it is looking forward to the restoration of an arbiter to police...

One of Jamaica’s anti-corruption watchdogs is pressing for the swift prosecution in 2024 of politicians who are being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment. Director of National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer made the call in response...