A carnival-like splashing of at least $3 billion of taxpayers’ money from a ministry with responsibility for Jamaica’s poorest dominates the findings of a 2018 audit of the National Insurance Fund Resort Management Company Limited (NIFRMCOL). ...

Public-sector teachers have been spurning requests to record lessons delivered via online video platforms to allow students who may have missed concepts or were unable to log in to virtual classrooms to rewatch or review classes in their own time.....

A number of schools are being forced to purchase expensive United States-dollar connectivity technology to maintain contact with students online as the island continues to deal with a high number of COVID-19 cases. Administrators complained to The.....

Thirty-five-year-old cop Jermaine Bennett left out on Tuesday morning to visit a young lady nearby to enquire about a five-week-old baby girl over whom he had reservations about whether he was the father. He would not return home as about 9:45 p.m.....

One company has so far applied to register the use of the drug Ivertmectin locally, but Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says that a bioequivalence study, which is necessary for approval, has not yet been submitted. The Medical....

Doctors in private practice, with the support of pharmacists, continue to prescribe the antibacterial, antifungal drug Ivermectin for patients with adverse COVID-19 symptoms despite the Ministry of Health and Wellness not giving the drug its...

The Government has expanded the current travel restrictions and protocols applicable to travellers from the United Kingdom to include Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay as the island grapples with a high number of active COVID-19....

As pressure mounts on the Andrew Holness administration to respond to recent chilling attacks on women, government backbencher Kerensia Morrison questioned, on Tuesday, discounts of up to 50 per cent on sentences for persons who plead guilty to a......

Camille Blair said she cried daily to be reunited with her now 13-year-old daughter Lamekia Lamont, whom she had entrusted to Obadiah and Millicent Lamont’s care when she was a young, poor mother. But when she learnt that her fifth child wanted to...

Lamekia Lamont, the 13-year-old student who was reported missing on March 26, wants to spend more time with her biological mother. Lamekia was handed over to officers at the Greater Portmore Police Station on Monday night by her biological mother.....

Silicon Valley-based Uber Technologies has announced plans to enter Kingston with its services. Uber sent out notifications to potential operators on Monday for persons to register as drivers. The company operates what it describes as a ride-...

The family of Khanice Jackson said they will not accept any sentence less than the death penalty if the suspect who has reportedly confessed to the murder of the 20-year-old is found guilty. Speaking on behalf of the family, Kevon Williams,...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is yet to indicate whether it will revoke the permit violated by Bengal Development Company, the entity that wants to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains on the...

With Jamaica expected to receive 75,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine through the African Medical Supplies Platform on Thursday, the Government is moving to ramp up its inoculation of the elderly this Saturday and over the next three...

Six-year-old Nathan Wanliss is unable to attend online classes, watch TV, or use his tablet as he suffers from cataract in the right eye and deteriorating vision in the other. He cannot see well enough to practise penmanship or read without...

WESTERN BUREAU: Eight-year-old Ngozi Wright, who made history in 2019 when she became the youngest person to speak in the Jamaican Parliament, wants murderers and rapists to “low” the country’s children. Her cry for an end to the vicious atta...

The 13-year-old girl who vanished last Friday after leaving her Windsor Heights, St Catherine, home has been found. Lamekia Lamont, an eighth-grade student at Camperdown High, had started corresponding with her biological mother weeks ago. Her...

The boyfriend of Khanice Jackson, whose body was found near an old fishing village on March 26, had warned the 20-year-old Portmore woman against taking rides to work with the main suspect in her eventual murder. Kevon Williams disclosed to The...

Prior to the pandemic, pharmacist Dr Ernestine Watson said it would take months to sell three oximeters, but now it’s taking a week to sell 10 of the devices that measure blood-oxygen levels. “Almost every day we are having requests for oximete...

Caribbean governments have sent a strong and clear message to the Group of Twenty (G20) developed countries to extend its Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) to highly indebted middle-income countries that are facing harsh economic setbacks.....