WESTERN BUREAU: As Stephina Ralston returned to her home in Warsop, Trelawny, on Tuesday, she was paralysed with fear that the man who had butchered her within an inch of her life was still lurking around. The 23-year-old, who survived several...

Retired parliamentarian Pearnel Charles Sr and residents of a St Thomas community are embroiled in a feud that has exploded with claims that vengeful arsonists destroyed 500 acres of sugar cane on his property. The dispute centres on a small island....

Three members of the Coke clan are among seven persons who could hear today whether murder and gang-related charges hanging over their heads will be conditionally discontinued. Prosecutors announced in court on Wednesday that Director of Public...

Sighs of relief could be heard all around yesterday as 27 persons who entered the island on a repatriation flight from London in the United Kingdom disembarked buses to begin a period of quarantine at The Jamaica Pegasus in New Kingston. With a...

Cayman Islands Chief Justice Anthony Smellie has reversed a recent decision barring Jamaican attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman from practising in the country. Wildman was admitted to the Caymanian Bar on Wednesday at a Zoom hearing. The attorney is to......

Convinced that women are natural problem solvers, engineer Natalie Sparkes is encouraging more women to pursue careers in the field and not shy away from information and communications technology (ICT). Sparkes, a past president of the Jamaica...

WESTERN BUREAU Members of the Jamaican Bar Association believe that legal provisions already exist for criminal matters to be placed before the courts without the cooperation of the complainant. “An assault is an offence against the State and.....

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has described as “irregular and “improper” questions raised by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck in a statement to Parliament about the Trafigura bribery case, which is to be heard in open court. The scandal over ...

Jamaica has been marshalling support for thousands of displaced residents in St Vincent and the Grenadines, where the eruption of the La Soufrière volcano has disrupted lives. Her Majesty’s Bahamian Ship Lawrence Major sets sail today for the......

Food for the Poor through its Florida-based office has shipped 10 container-loads of relief supplies to St Vincent and the Grenadines to help the people affected by the La Soufriere volcanic eruption. Some 16,000 people, majority of them living in.....

Flagging public outrage over a domestic violence scandal, House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert called out the Opposition on Tuesday, pushing for there to be a definitive statement on whether members of parliament who are involved in criminal...

As the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines worsens, chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), Howard Mitchell, has disclosed that the 55,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expected from the COVAX Facility later this week will be...

Attorney-at-law Able-Don Foote has sounded a warning that a chorus of public comments about George Wright, the member of parliament for Westmoreland Central, could be construed as defamatory as the police had found no evidence to take action...

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie has dismissed speculation that the death of veteran broadcaster Michael Sharpe on Tuesday was linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine he received on Sunday, March 14. Speaking with the...

A religious company affiliated with embattled clergyman Jeffrey Shuttleworth has slapped the Government with a lawsuit over the legislation it has used as a vehicle to impose public order and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Freedom Come...

WESTERN BUREAU: When Michael Sharpe came under the wings of news editor Janet Mowatt at RJR in 1983, she recalled the energy and enthusiasm that the cub reporter had on assignments. It was that youthful zeal that colleagues say propelled him to...

Audrey Deer Williams, who for many years was the senior director of investments at the National Insurance Fund (NIF) in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, came under fire on Tuesday from members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (...

Increased household care work caused by COVID-19 displacement in Jamaica has disproportionately affected women, making them more likely to lose out on jobs because of traditional expectations of unpaid domestic labour. Eighteen per cent of the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and...

Anne Chin-Teape and Leslie Teape were scheduled to get their second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot in May, but that dream will forever be deferred after the couple, who have been together for more than 50 years, died less than an hour...