WESTERN BUREAU: A St Elizabeth father is hoping that a judge hands down the death penalty for his daughter’s former flame who stabbed her multiple times in her sleep last year. He believes that this could be a lesson to other abusive and...

Medical practitioner at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Dr Je-Vaughn Wynter, was hit by COVID-19 twice as he worked on the front line. He cannot imagine what a third infection would be like, but to reduce his chances of becoming....

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has said that the alarm raised over a missing vial containing 10 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, could be overblown as it is just “one....

Two weeks after the launch of an investigation into the death of 17-year-old JaLisa McGowan, the family is yet to receive a report on the findings of the probe. McGowan was rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) by her mom,...

Lawmakers should impose tougher penalties on persons who wilfully tamper with a national identification card under the proposed National Identification System (NIDS) law, Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Director of Legal Affairs Alethia Whyte has....

Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks is to decide today in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court whether he will be restricting the movement of the two former Petrojam executives who are on fraud charges. Both accused reside and work in the United......

Prolific poet and prize-winning author Olive Senior has been named Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-2024. In a ceremony of investiture held at King’s House on Wednesday, Senior, 79, was bestowed with the national honour by Governor General Sir...

WESTERN BUREAU: It has been almost a week since an elderly fisherman from Bluefields in Westmoreland vanished at sea. Days of searching have turned up no sign of 75-year-old Leonard Williams, and his loved ones are now fearing the worst. Williams......

The voice notes of Shenay Spencer crying for help echoes in the head of her family while they await the findings of the investigation launched by the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH). Spencer, who was a COVID-19 patient, died on March 3 at the KPH...

Opposition Spokesperson on Education Dr Angela Brown Burke has called for the Professor Orlando Patterson Education Commission to break its silence and present its recommendations and findings on the sector as was promised. Brown Burke recalled...

Picking apart one of the central highlights of Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s Budget presentation, Opposition Leader Mark Golding cast a Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) dividend of $33 billion as the fruit of an effective tax that has oppressed the poor...

A HawkEye security guard died valiantly while responding to a robbery in progress at the Public Sector Employees Co-operative Credit Union at the Caribbean Estate housing development in Portmore on Tuesday. An eyewitness said that four gunmen were.....

WESTERN BUREAU: Several staffers within the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) have been reassigned after an investigation was launched on Tuesday into 10 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that went missing from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in.....

When Waterford residents saw Stephanie Hamilton wandering around the community naked on Sunday, nobody fathomed it was the last time the mentally ill woman would have been seen alive. The shock was palpable when a resident asked aloud on Tuesday, �...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding said the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) guarantor system should be abolished as it is undermining the path to prosperity for children from low-income households. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, in opening the Budget....

An audit is under way into the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which met with challenges in the first two days when some persons not slated to receive the jab were thrust to the front of the line to be inoculated. Permanent secretary in the...

Jamaica Labour Party Councillor Kari Douglas, who is accused of hitting a police corporal and obstructing him in the execution of his duty, is to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on May 20. The 37-year-old politician, who...

Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson is looking forward to returning to the courtroom when Jamaica achieves herd immunity against COVID-19. “One of the things that I miss is going to court because that’s my primary occupation,” said Tavares-Fi...

A security guard has succumbed to bullet wounds he received during a robbery at the Public Sector Cooperative Credit Union at the Caribbean Estate in Portmore, St Catherine this afternoon. Another has been hospitalised with a bullet wound to his...

Regional Director of the Western Regional Health Authority Errol Greene has reported that one vial with ten doses of the COVID vaccine has disappeared from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James. Greene told The Gleaner a short while ago that.....