A fifth National Water Commission (NWC) customer who received a “questionable” bill of close to $3 million has distressingly turned to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) after efforts to resolve the matter with the utility company broke down...
Accountability campaigner Jeanette Calder believes that while Justice Minister Delroy Chuck’s concern about the time it was taking the Integrity Commission (IC) to conclude its probe into the alleged illicit enrichment of six parliamentarians is valid, his call ...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican immigration officers have expressed discontent over statements made by former head of Jamaica Customs, Danville Walker. While congratulating the Government for successfully implementing the C5 online forms introduced in...
One of the investigators into the July 2020 murder of Portland businesswoman Tonia McDonald has admitted that the police never ascertained a description of her alleged killer before he was apprehended. The witness, a detective corporal, while...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) on Tuesday passed a motion to allow for a section of Orange Street in downtown Kingston to be transformed into a vending zone for the period December 18 to January 14, 2024. The motion was...
Celando Matchevelli’s artistic talent is a gift bestowed on him and most members of his immediate family. But the 16-year-old said he chose to actively nurture this talent, teaching himself the intricacies of using charcoal and graphite to bring...
Dozens of pharmacy graduates awaiting their licensure to secure jobs have been left in limbo for months amid the absence of a Pharmacy Council, the body responsible for regulating the profession. More than 50 graduates who completed their one-year...
Courtney Rowe, one of four attorneys representing murder accused Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald, on Monday drilled a police constable, who later admitted to writing a second statement three years after his initial evidence and after the trial had...
Patrick Hylton has been appointed chairman of the board of management of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). His appointment comes five days after Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton dissolved the previous board over what he...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 19-year-old male who was granted bail in the Western Regional Gun Court in September is one of two men implicated in the murder of 34-year-old vendor Akeem Robinson, who was killed two weeks ago on Fustic Road in Montego Bay. Of...
Jamaica’s crime rate presents an impediment to citizens fully benefiting from rights guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Marlene Malahoo Forte has asserted. The minister of legal and constitutional affairs made the...
Lady Allen took the audience into her confidence at this year’s observation of World AIDS Day on December 1 at The Summit in New Kingston, sharing some of her experiences while working as a nurse in the United States, treating and caring for...
WESTERN BUREAU: Fourteen-year-old Randino ‘Dino’ James, who lost his life when gunmen sprayed a St James bar with bullets last Friday evening, may have been a victim of a hit. The soft-spoken Anchovy High School student was the only fatality in the...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) is set to honour the legacy of former Governor General Professor Sir Kenneth Hall with the renaming of the Mona Campus Annex Building to the Kenneth Hall Administration Building. Hall’s journey at The UWI...
Palpable fear and nightmarish encounters have become commonplace for Dr Elsa Amanu* and her 12-year-old son after nearly three years of traumatic experiences at their home in Green Acres, St Catherine. Amanu, who came to Jamaica from Venezuela to...
Jamaica and the region have lost a distinguished son, literary icon, author, and public orator in Professor Edward Baugh, who died on Sunday morning. News of the death of the renowned and well-loved educator, with the velvet voice, whose artistry...
WESTERN BUREAU: Two Westmoreland siblings, reportedly killed over scamming money, have been identified by their mother after their lifeless bodies surfaced in a video that went viral late last week. Keneisha Moodie, 22, and her 20-year-old brother...
With scores of Jamaica’s less fortunate children still left wondering if they will get a gift this Christmas, Xodus – one of Jamaica’s Carnival bands – has taken on elf-like duties by calling for revellers and others to gather 800 toys in time for...
Christmas came early for the Montego Bay Learning Centre on December 6 when one-man band Sergeant Gladstone Sealy lit up the faces of the institution’s special-needs students and members of staff by treating them to a day of fun, entertainment, and...
Raymond Pryce, the People’s National Party (PNP) chairman for St Catherine East Central, is calling for a parliamentary enquiry into Cabinet member Everald Warmington’s declaration that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) plans to create a political...
The Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) is strongly objecting to consideration being given by Parliament to amend the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) for mandatory minimum sentences to be imposed on children for certain offences. According to the...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is distancing itself from Lord Nicholas Phillips’ broadside against Commonwealth countries and their dependence on the London-based court, who suggested 14 years ago that they had overstayed their...
Instead of hosting a grand bash to celebrate her 50th birthday, Michelle Henry has opted to channel her energy and resources into constructing a house for a mother and her family in need. Henry, who will celebrate her birthday tomorrow, said she...
“This is absolutely scary!” declared Mary Jones when she beheld thousands of dead fish lining the Harbour Head shoreline in Harbour View, St Andrew, yesterday morning. She was among several persons who made the usual Saturday morning trek to the...
