WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica’s toxic culture of condemnation of transgenders and transsexuals has been blamed for driving a former policewoman to flee the country to embrace what he says is his true identity as a man. Identified as female at birth,......

The reputed ‘jail block’, where wards at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre are sent for punishment, even being stripped to their underwear, should immediately be scrapped, a watchdog agency has said. Addressing a press conference on...

Nkrumah Fong, CEO and Founder of Consolidated Environment Research Laboratory, has invented a game-changing vehicular tailpipe exhaust absorber and capture device, which he believes is a multibillion-dollar solution to a multibillion-dollar problem....

New betting and gaming entrant Mahoe Gaming Enterprises has been given the green light to operate, a development bound to challenge Supreme Ventures Limited’s (SVL) monopoly on the multibillion-dollar industry. Mahoe Gaming was given the go-ahead...

Western Bureau: An issue causing soot to be leaking into fuel being dispensed at its depot and reduced ridership concerns are among reasons behind frustrated commuters seeing an irregular schedule in the roll-out of buses by the Montego Bay Metro......

Lancelot Harris lost his mother to diabetes as a teen. Then his father died from the same health condition. And in a bid to save his own life, he lost both his legs. Diagnosed with diabetes at age 20, doctors had warned him that he was at risk of.....

Police Corporal Vince Edwards was on Wednesday found not guilty of the 2009 killing of Tyrone Powell in a judge-alone murder retrial in the Home Circuit Court. The policeman was arrested and charged with murder following an incident in Cooreville......

Embattled former education minister Ruel Reid and his four co-accused will be challenging the validity of their fraud and corruption prosecution at the United Kingdom-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The disclosure was made on...

Integrity Commission boss Greg Christie says Jamaica’s one-point improvement in the latest corruption perception score is nothing to celebrate. The index, released last week, shows Jamaica inching up from a score of 43 in 2019 to...

The St Thomas teen who was arrested and charged for severing the penis of a six-year-old boy has been sentenced to three years and seven months behind bars.   The convict, who was 16 years old at the time of the offence in August 2019 was...

The $422-million budget approved for the communication campaign to bolster buy-in of the coronavirus vaccine could be crucial to a Jamaica Moves-scale crusade in marketing the life-saving jab. Jamaicans will not know until early next week which...

Jovan Johnson/Senior Staff Reporter Colette Roberts Risden, the embattled permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS), has asserted that she will not be going anywhere as lawmakers push for accountability over the...

A culture of victimisation has been reportedly cultivated at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, with officers charged with the supervision of minors subjecting them to human-rights abuse for trifling misdemeanours. The post-mortem from a......

A time-use study undertaken in the 2018 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) has revealed that Jamaican women carry a greater burden of unpaid domestic and care work in the home. Women spend an estimated 294 minutes – or about five hours �...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard startling allegations that well-known Portland businessman Everton McDonald had expressed regret after the murder of his first wife and wished he could bring her back and retrieve the money he had allegedly paid....

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is piling pressure on the Government and the Opposition to fast-track the passage of the Enhanced Security Measures Act amid renewed anxiety about violent crime, particularly murder. In a landmark......

WESTERN BUREAU: Three books, seven CDs, remarkable work as an international motivational speaker, even inspiring hundreds of Jamaican children to perform her work at Festival annually, Joan Andrea Hutchinson remains the ‘Bumpy Head Gyal’. A quar...

Rojette Williams was just 11 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Had it not been for early screening, it might have gone undiagnosed for longer. Now a medical doctor, the 37-year-old cancer survivor is happy to be......

An international health expert has cautioned Jamaica against vaccinating already frail senior citizens following Tuesday’s disclosure by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that front-line workers and the elderly will be among the first estimate...

A rare occasion when government members of a parliamentary oversight committee coalesced in bowling tough questions at a senior civil servant is allegedly part of a “plot” to help Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda shake his permane...