Another former top executive at Jamaica’s state-owned oil refinery Petrojam is expected to be slapped with fraud-related charges early next week, senior law enforcement sources have disclosed. The former executive voluntarily returned to the isla...

Despite launching a broadside at those who have flagrantly flouted safety rules amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has held back from imposing further restrictions amid a lingering lockdown debate. Thirteen of 22...

The highly contagious United Kingdom variant of the coronavirus called B.1.1.7 has been confirmed to be spreading in Jamaica. The development was announced by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton at a press briefing Monday evening.......

From a sidewalk with head in hands on Monday, Marcia Hall sat staring at smoke rising from the debris as she pondered how to regain $30,000 in tuition fees she had saved for her daughter, Alitia ‘Hope’ Williams. There was no time to think where...

The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, has suspended face-to-face clinical rotations for three weeks effective March 9. Third-year medical students had just started the clinical portion of their studies in January but are now being forced....

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the New Town district in Hanover were jolted on Monday by the shock discovery of a beheaded pastor. The minister of religion has been identified as 40-year-old Kenniffe Andre Reid, who is originally from Lucea, Hanover.....

The recent sharp rises in the price of fuel appeared genuinely outside of the control of the state-owned oil refinery, said Richard Pandohie, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA). At the same time, Petrojam...

Peta-Gay Milne, a blind woman, was abused for four years by someone who also had a disability. She was among a four-member panel of women who shared their experiences with gender-based violence during a Women’s Day symposium themed ‘Unmasking......

The Government is contemplating providing financial grants to stakeholders in the funeral industry as the two-week ban on burials commenced on Monday. Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenize did not say how much money...

With anxiety heightening as Jamaica’s coronavirus infections skyrocketed Saturday to a record toll of 723 cases, private-sector leaders are resisting calls for a national lockdown. That appeal grew louder on Sunday as the nation grappled with mor...

WESTERN BUREAU: When the soles fell off Ruby Robinson’s school shoes, she used wire to hold them together. And when it rained, she walked miles barefooted. Born in Brown’s Town, St Ann, the 55-year-old account director with Google, who has apla...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has revealed that test results of random COVID samples from patients with no travel history have confirmed that the UK variant is in Jamaica. The samples were taken from the parishes of St Catherine, St Jame...

Kingston vendor Annie Ivey is just two years short of being 80 and has been working her entire life in different low-paying jobs but has never had a pension plan. She has no clue when she will retire. “Anytime mi cyah go nuh more. Mi nuh sick yah...

She was a victim at the hands of father figures and a mother who chose to look the other way. But Shawnafi Dynesen, a native of Bath, St Thomas, has turned a history of pain into a road map of redemption and strength. The 42-year-old, who now lives....

Describing the spike in COVID-19 cases in Portland as alarming, Port Antonio Mayor Paul Thompson is appealing for residents to be more responsible and to adhere to health and safety protocols. Thompson’s comments came hours after the Ministry of....

WESTERN BUREAU: Former president of the Jamaica Court of Appeal, retired Justice Seymour Panton, has accused some of the country’s educators of not doing enough in the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Panton, who retired from the Bench in...

The first African American woman to be appointed professor of surgery at New York University Langone Grossman School of Medicine is Jamaica-born Dr Kathie-Ann Joseph. She also assumes the rank of professor in population health, where she holds dual....

SEVEN people, including a 16-year-old boy, were murdered in St James and Westmoreland during a bloody weekend in which a 13-year-old student was left nursing gunshot wounds at hospital. Those killed in St James have been identified as 33-year-old......

They are incarcerated. Some for stomach-churning crimes fitting the most macabre movies. Yet they wield cell phones at will, recording fights, ‘lavish’ parties and even using them to intimidate and order the deaths of Jamaicans beyond their...

Jamaica’s major hospitals are teetering on the very thin edge of collapse as some have either run out oxygen stock or are dangerously low amid rising COVID-19 hospitalisations and the resulting demands for the life-preserving chemical. “There i...