Yesterday, across Jamaica, schools, communities, and families came together dressed vibrantly in sunshine yellow to celebrate National Children’s Day, a tradition now observed every third Friday in May. Spearheaded by the National Child Month...
Hours after social media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson vanished, Constable Noel Maitland reportedly broke down in tears, rambling about his job and taxi drivers in what a close friend described as a shocking and erratic moment. The testimony came...
Amid light drizzle described as “showers of blessings”, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness declared on Thursday that St Thomas was no longer a forgotten parish. With several government members of parliament, public sector and civic leaders as well as...
NEW YORK: As the Trump administration intensifies its immigration enforcement, fear and uncertainty continue to ripple through immigrant communities, prompting a surge of green card holders, including many Jamaicans, to apply for US citizenship in...
WESTERN BUREAU: St James Central Member of Parliament Heroy Clarke has expressed strong disappointment over the suspension of classes at Green Pond High School on Thursday, citing poor management as the root cause of the issue. A disruption in the...
WESTERN BUREAU: Forty six-year-old Mario Brown, who admitted in court to applying for a passport under a false name in 2014, has been ordered to pay a $400,000 fine or spend 30 days in prison. He appeared before Judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton in...
Cabinet Minister Matthew Samuda has defended the stance of the National Water Commission (NWC), which has indicated it will cease sharing water quality data with the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), but said all reports about...
A scheme that exploited a since-discarded emergency feature of point-of-sale (POS) terminals was used to defraud two Jamaican financial institutions of nearly $400 million, law enforcement and banking industry insiders have disclosed. One...
As Jamaica’s birth rate plunges to alarming levels, sociologist Georgia Crawford is urging the Government to take bold steps to avert the looming crisis, starting with cash bonuses for new mothers, home grants, and a three-day workweek for parents...
Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby says he has proposed the twinning of three by-elections with the general election, constitutionally due months from now, to cut cost to the country. The update comes more than five months after three divisions — Olympic...
A Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining internal audit report has highlighted allegations that fertiliser donated by the Kingdom of Morocco for Jamaican farmers was being sold at a private farm store in St Catherine in August 2023. An...
The mother of missing social media influencer, Sophia Lugg, yesterday ended her testimony in tears after revealing that she and her daughter, who shared a sister-like bond, affectionately called each other “my love”. The distraught mother, who is...
Western Bureau: The much-anticipated closing arguments by the defence in the trial over the beating death of Mario Deane did not start yesterday, as one member of the seven-member jury was unavailable to attend due to illness, forcing the presiding...
The state-run National Water Commission (NWC) says “negative reactions” from local and international customers and a mistrust of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) have triggered its decision to no longer share water-quality...
The ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is battling internal revolt in St Andrew North Central as Delano Seiveright’s campaign pause fuels backlash over claims that the leadership is plotting to sideline him in favour of Christian Tavares-Finson....
Despite establishing standard procedures to distribute agricultural inputs, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has been unable to verify that tens of millions of dollars’ worth of fertiliser, allocated to members of parliament (MPs...
WESTERN BUREAU: The attorneys representing the three police personnel who are criminally charged in connection with the beating death of Mario Deane will get a final chance to convince the jury of their clients’ innocence when they commence their...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has strongly rejected the judiciary’s response to her criticism of the handling of the Trade Winds Citrus pollution case, insisting that judges are not powerless observers in the courtroom....
A visibly emotional Sophia Lugg on Monday tearfully recalled the frantic attempts she made to reach her daughter, missing social media personality Donna-Lee Donaldson, before she vanished after leaving home with her boyfriend, Constable Noel...
Accusing the Government of shifting the goalposts in their long-standing overtime dispute, the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA) on Monday urged the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) to deliver justice as they seek compensation for extra...
The start of the school week at St John’s Primary in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was shrouded in grief. It wasn’t the typical chatter or bustle that marked a Monday. Instead, it was silence – broken only by the soft footsteps of children entering...
WESTERN BUREAU: Acting Superintendent of the St James Division of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB), Keneisha Vaccianna, is calling on residents to stop making prank calls to emergency services, describing the act as a dangerous and costly distraction...
WESTERN BUREAU: Justice Courtney Daye on Monday dismissed another attempt by the prosecution to have a lock-up policy document admitted into evidence. The policy was allegedly in effect in August 2014, when Mario Deane was fatally beaten while in...
WESTERN BUREAU: After years of lobbying, residents in three housing schemes in Westmoreland are poised to benefit from a major $265-million infrastructure overhaul courtesy of the National Housing Trust (NHT), this fiscal year. Savanna-la-Mar Mayor...
