Two powerful stakeholder bodies in the education sector have given full support to the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information’s anti-bullying campaign, stressing that any attempt to stem the dangerous physical and emotional tide...
Founder of the Misty Blue Cancer Care Foundation, Dorothy Satchwell, is urging Jamaicans, especially young people, to learn their family health history and to take early screening seriously, warning that ignorance and poverty continue to cost lives...
A 78-year-old man is among two people in police custody for illegal possession of ammunition and firearms, following seizures made during two separate police operations in St Thomas on the weekend. One multi-calibre AM-15 rifle was among the...
Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew Andrew Swaby is urging people with food, intended to be given to the homeless in the nation’s capital, to channel such donations through the Marie Atkins Night Shelter, citing reports of people donating meals unfit...
The erection of an asphalt plant along Dyke Road in Portmore, St Catherine has sparked outrage among councillors who say the facility is being built without the necessary approvals from the Portmore Municipal Corporation. At last Wednesday’s...
Western Bureau: With the parish seeing a high-level of non-compliance in property tax payment, the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) will shortly be going on an enforcement drive to collect outstanding monies with a back-up plan to publish the...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United States clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, with the Trump administration vowing to use its “full might” to eradicate drug cartels and the Maduro...
Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake has defended his decision to declare the chairmanship of the Police Officers’ Association (POA) vacant, citing serious financial irregularities and a failure to provide accountability within the organisation. In a...
Pulse Investments Limited, the publicly listed modelling and entertainment company, is facing a lawsuit in the Supreme Court over an alleged unpaid shareholder loan of US$80,000 (approximately J$12.4 million). The lawsuit was filed on August 25 by...
The Integrity Commission (IC), Jamaica’s leading anti-corruption agency, has been operating without three of its top leaders for weeks – a development that could significantly undermine its ability to prevent, detect, and prosecute corruption. As...
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Crime and violence have long plagued Jamaica, with the crisis continuing in 2025 – and with several notable incidents particularly over the past three months – leaving the nation’s youth devastated. The consequences have been...
In the quiet community of Moreland Hill in Westmoreland, residents were rocked by tragedy on Friday morning with the killing of 65-year-old security guard Wayne Robinson, who was chopped to death at his home along Old Road. Robinson, who was...
After more than three decades of waiting in vain, two landowners from St Ann have taken the Government to court, demanding US$4.4 million plus interest in compensation for a portion of land reportedly seized by the state to build the Ocho Rios...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is accusing public commentators of wanting to keep open a case he says the Integrity Commission (IC) has closed concerning the awarding of several contracts to a public relations firm. “You know,...
President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop, is urging judges not to hesitate in imposing maximum sentences for serious crimes when the law permits, emphasising the need for the judiciary to send a clear message against grave...
One driver has been taken off duty, and three others are facing internal disciplinary action as Daryl Vaz, minister of transportation, telecommunication and energy, promises a zero-tolerance approach against infractions carried out by operators of...
With an insatiable appetite for reading, 12-year-old Deandré Fowler, a first-form student at Hampton School in St Elizabeth, would spend her holidays at the parish library in Black River, immersing herself in books, particularly mysteries, that...
For 12-year-old Kiyana Hayles, receiving a JN Foundation Scholarship was both a surprise and a source of immense pride. The St Mary native, now a first-form student at St Hilda’s Diocesan High School, admitted she had almost given up hope of being...
WESTERN BUREAU: In an effort to curb the parish’s rat problem, Sherika Lewis, acting chief public health inspector for the parish, is calling for the St James Municipal Corporation (StJMC) and other stakeholders to fully support the St James Health...
WESTERN BUREAU: Custos of Hanover Lennox Anderson-Jackson has committed to work closely with the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) in fostering peace, unity and civic pride across the parish. Anderson-Jackson, on his first official visit to a HMC...
Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes says operations at the Ministry of Health and Wellness must be investigated following the tabling of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on the controversial awarding of contracts to a public...
In one of every five planned police operations in which a civilian is killed at home, a female occupant of the premises is either removed or barred from the ill-fated area moments before the cops opened fire. According to the Independent Commission...
A government forensic analyst on Thursday confirmed the presence of human blood on drapes recovered from the New Kingston apartment of police constable Noel Maitland. Testifying as the murder trial surrounding the disappearance of Maitland’s...
An early morning fire at Gallery Apartments on Oxford Road in New Kingston on Thursday claimed the life of a 70-year-old resident, leaving the community shaken and mourning the loss. The charred remains of Bill Barnes, a longtime resident of the...
Investigators have made significant progress in the probe into Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in the Commodore district of St Catherine, which claimed five lives, including four-year-old Shannon Gordon, and left four others injured. Among the...
