At least 29 people have died this year in motor vehicle crashes that occurred after the start of the nightly all-island curfews, new statistics have revealed. The death toll resulted from 25 fatal crashes that involved a total of 39 vehicles, some.....

Elysa Leonard, 54, a scuba diver from Virginia in the United States, has not travelled in over a year. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down global economies last year – with travel and tourism among the worst hit – Leonard was preparing to fl...

International outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has doled out US$1 million to reward its Jamaica employees, after the local operation surpassed all the targets for the financial year 2020-2021. The India-headquartered company began...

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP): A Jamaican man is among those now being threatened with deportation as federal officials are not honouring an agreement to accept the validity of Connecticut pardons and continue trying to deport people pardoned by a...

Several churches remained closed on Good Friday as worshippers commemorated the most solemn day on the Christian calendar amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections that have triggered a holiday lockdown....

A 33-year-old woman who has been living on the streets of Ocho Rios for the past two years after fleeing an abusive relationship is desperate for help to overcome substance abuse and to turn over a new leaf. Simone...

Warnings of the possibility of a post-Easter spike in coronavirus cases have drawn criticism from a respected member of the business community who has questioned the viability of the strategy if a surge of...

The usual solemnity associated with Good Friday was utterly disturbed as residents of Soho in St Thomas expressed outrage at a suspected gruesome murder-suicide. Forty-seven-year-old Lorraine Hutchinson of Middleton...

"Rise and shine, my grade 3F, babies!" is how grade three teacher Natalie Dawkins greets her students in a WhatsApp group each morning. One parent said she knew something was wrong when Dawkins, a teacher at the Four...

Dayne Mitchell, the 39-year-old arrested on April 1 last year after he recorded a video voicing his resistance to the weeklong islandwide 8 p.m. curfew that was in place, has criticised the effectiveness of the...

Two men charged in connection with the June 2016 shooting death of a male Canadian tourist in West End, Negril, are to return to the Westmoreland Home Circuit Court on June 21 for the continuation of their judge-alone trial. The accused, Oral...

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 Ivermectin 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...