Lead Stories

“A debacle.” “Atrocious.” “A bunch of misfits.” Those are just some of the expressions used by cricket enthusiasts to describe the performance of the West Indies following their disastrous showing in the third Test against...

WESTERN BUREAU: Inspector Orville Bushay, who heads the Area One Police Division’s newly formed Agricultural Protection Branch (APB), wants agricultural stakeholders to cooperate with the unit in fighting praedial larceny in western Jamaica....

WESTERN BUREAU: People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell wants to see more women in representational politics, saying the struggle for women to get a seat at the political table is much more difficult than it is for men....

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says his ministry is the importer of 110 used school buses for the rural transportation programme and not energy company Elhydro Limited. Vaz, in a social media post following a statement from his Ministry of...

Political commentator Lloyd B. Smith is urging Jamaican lawmakers to prioritise a revision of the 1843 Towns and Communities Act which makes it a crime to use profane, indecent or obscene language in public spaces. His statement follows recent...

WESTERN BUREAU: With a general election looming, the Westmoreland police want political representatives, their supporters and the general citizenry to strive to keep the peace in order to avoid the political conflict that marred previous...

PORTLAND: Two Portland women are gearing up for a fight to reunite with their Haitian husbands, who were deported earlier this year to Haiti – a country plagued by violence, instability, and poverty. The men were returned without papers, tools, or...

Prospective candidate for the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in St Ann South Western, Danishka Williams, believes her campaign to bring entertainment zones and improved infrastructure to the constituency has put incumbent Zavia Mayne on...

Finding lasting solutions to Haiti’s deepening political, security, and governance crises is a top priority for Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, during his 2025-2030 tenure. “I have made Haiti a...

Western Bureau: Lucea Mayor Sheridan Samuels has rejected claims by Wade Mars, the executive director of the Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TDPCo), that suggested inaction from his Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) office was...

Seventy-nine-year-old Alvin Ricketts, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 for the 2008 murder of a farmworker on a St Ann coffee estate, is now a free man after the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction and entered an order for...

WESTERN BUREAU: Businessman Tony Rodney is now breathing life into his long-held dream of creating a venue where families can enjoy themselves together, with this past Thursday’s soft opening of his Funtopia amusement park in Rosemount Pen in...